Excerpt from Lectures on the Growth and Development of the United States: Illustrated Our commerce is so valuable to them, that they will be glad to purchase it, when the only price we ask is to do us justice. I believe we have in our own hands the means of peaceable coer cion; and that the moment they see our govern ment so united as that we can make use of it, they will for their own interest be disposed to do us justice. 1 The day after his inauguration the President appointed James Madison Secretary of State; Henry Dearborn, Washington's ed. Of Jefferson's Works, vol. Iv., p. 330. T Ford's ed. Of Jefferson's Writings, vol. Viii., p. 23. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.