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...after the announcement of the Louisiana Purchase, Jefferson envisioned a process of national expansion: "We may lay off a range of States on the Western bank [of the Mississippi], from the head to the mouth, and so, range after range, advancing compactly as...

...a peaceful preserve for Indians. But population growth made future frontier settlement inevitable: "When we shall be full on this side, we may lay off...after range, advancing compactly as we multiply." It was as if Jefferson were already drawing the map in his imagination. Like the Old Northwest, the...

...exchange for their settlements east of the Mississippi. "When we shall be full on this side," he writes, "we may lay off a range of States on the western bank...after range, advancing compactly as we multiply." Madison went so far as to argue to the French minister that the United States had no interest in seeing...

...cession. "[28] To Jefferson, national settlement would occur according to a plan of parallel colonization. "When we shall be full on this side, we may lay off a range of states on the western bank [of the Mississippi River] from the head to the mouth, and so, range after range, advancing compactly...

..."When we shall be full on this bank we may [that is, with the method just described we will be free to] lay off a range of States on the Western bank from the head to the mouth, & so, range after range, advancing compactly as we multiply." The second quotation in my text is from...

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