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The New Hampshire Gazette
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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The admission of Louisiana to the United States union is announced as a great and glorious event achieved through peaceful and just means by the republican government. Credit is given to the legislature, executive, and national sentiment. Citizens are urged to rejoice in this unification.
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AMERICANS!
THE event for which we have all looked with so much solicitude, is at length realized. LOUISIANA is a part of the union. The acquisition is great and glorious in itself—but still greater and more glorious are the means by which it is obtained. In them are developed the energy and justice of a republican government, and its perfect competency, with the least practicable injury to others, to redress the wrong and to secure the rights of the nation it protects. Never have mankind contemplated so vast and important an accession of empire by means so pacific and just, and never, perhaps, has there been a change of government so agreeable to the subjects of it. May the example go forth to the world, and teach rulers the superiority of right to violence!
To the firm and temperate conduct of the legislature, to the enlightened and energetic measures of the Executive, and to the commanding and supporting sentiment of the nation, we owe this splendid æra in the annals of our country. The virtues and talents of those who produced it will receive the admiration of posterity: ours they already possess.
This, fellow-citizens, is an appropriate occasion for joy. Cold must be the heart, that is not animated by the completion of this event. Every doubt has vanished; the country is ours. Our brethren in the west are exulting in the new ties that unite them to us.
LET US TOO REJOICE! that We are free, that we are happy! and that this great event promises to make them as free and happy as ourselves.
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Louisiana
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louisiana becomes part of the union through peaceful and just means, uniting the western brethren with the nation.
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The event of Louisiana joining the union is realized through the energy and justice of the republican government, crediting the legislature's firm conduct, the Executive's enlightened measures, and the nation's supporting sentiment. This accession is vast, pacific, and agreeable to its subjects, serving as an example of right over violence. Citizens are called to rejoice in the freedom and happiness this brings.