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Show 1 WHO SAID -1 "And for the support of this declaration declar-ation we mutuAllj pledge to each t i -j er our lives, ur fortunes and our sacred sac-red honor." Thin wrote Thomas Jefferson in that master paper of statecraft which inurU always make: his name famous! 'in American history tho Declaration! I of Independence. Thomas Jefferson is best known nsl ,the third president of the United I I States but no act of his presidential icurcor has brought bl'm the deserved fame that has his authorship of the ; document which declared the American Ameri-can colonies to be free from England. One of the great acts of Jefferson's l.rlminictiM'Inn wall th., lUi-rllAi.i,il iv. panslon of the United states through (tho territory of Louisiana. Agents of !lhu president made an exploration of !ihu territory and urged that the purchase pur-chase be consummated Jefferson was 'successful In doing so although many lof the people of that day stood aghast jat tho greatness of the project. When jusked if his act wore constitutional i Jefferson humorously remarked that ih' had "stretched the constitution until un-til It cracked." By this turn tho French were oust-jed oust-jed from America and England was prevented from getting the footliold la ithe South which she had hoped to accomplish ac-complish by defeating her rival. I I'ranee. It was Napoleon Bonaparte who sold the territory to the United '.States and When he did so he is said to have remarked that he thereby "gave England a rival that would one dav humble her pride." j Thomas Jefferson was a natne Of (Virginia, "the mother of presidents." (Ho was born April 2. 1743, and M ! death occurred July 4, IS!';, the fifitieth anniversary of the signing of tho Declaration of Independence. Wayne D Bffaclfurray- |