When our people had began to settle in the Mississippi Valley, Jefferson himself accepted with equanimity the view that probably it would not be possible to keep regions so infinitely remote as the Mississippi and the Atlantic Coast in the same Union.
Roosevelt reflects on Thomas Jefferson's acceptance of the challenges posed by distant territories in the Union.
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