Paul Alliot

Received on a short visit to this place your letter of the 14th and the papers it covered, and have perused with satisfaction that containing your historical and political reflections on Louisiana. They are replete with views which are benevolent, and which appear to me to be just, altho', for want of local knolege, I am unable to decide on them competently. In the present stage of government there, nothing can be attempted. But when the governor & legislature, provided for them by Congress, shall get into action, I shall certainly commit your reflections to the Governor, that they may produce the good of which they are susceptible, for the people for whose advantage they appear to have been written. (TJ to Alliot, 27 April 1804)

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