Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1844-04-30
NO. lI4.---VOLUME XII.

had man,aned IN regard II hHe 10 Icras with tie
hio E'aro del .Nortc is Western Boundary.
From the date Of tie LOUISIANA treaty CHE 30th oil
April lsOi> 10 the dat Of he Florida treaty, Che a1d
OF February, lsl9,) no OF our Presidents or OF
Their severn! Cabinets. doubted If our fi,ls 10 T,
as. When the Lousianas were ACQUIRED Mr. LETTER
soh was President MIR Madison expressed III. views
OF botn NJ Jefferson and himself IN his letter as Sc
creary OF State dated March 3ls, 1904 when he sad
that Louisiana pxlented Westwardly 10 the Rio By-
O., otherwise called RIO Del N1rtc Orders were accord
Insy obtained from the Spanish authorities for the deli
very OF all the posts on he UeSt SIDE Of tie Mssissppi
ms OF course, refers TO the delivery from SPAN To
france under the treaty CT 81; lldeonso ade on the
LIST .! October, 1900 IN previous letter (of the 3lst
%! January, S0i) Mr. MADISON declared, tina, the
French Commissioner, NJ. Lausat ocho deiirered the
POSSESSION c Louisiana 10 u.s. announced .e Del yorte
as The true bouadary
In the 81 volume of Whites New Reconciliation. n.
3lb, find significant confirmation of MIR Mad.sons
statement ct the opinions and ais OF Czeu Laus-
sat- IN the protest OF the Marquis De Casa Cavo (he
Spanish COMMISSIONER in relation thereto | quote
lhererom follows:
"lo the Colonial project and Commissioner" M
Laussap ''of the French Republic:
NEW ORLEANS, March 81, 1891
- sanuia ne guilty OF u great diel,cilon from nv
onty &c" ii, while you preparing for your vow
a2e ana terminating the operations, III which also was
destined 10 bear part, should nesec, 10 commune
CAFE 10 yon ~ The name oil the King that Se:in cannot
WIN indifference regard the cxhorbiiant propositiops
winch the United States are beginning 10 set forth,
with regard 10 The limits, both the East AID the Ue,
oil NE province OF LOUISIANA The lnnis on the E,st
ME established by solemn treat IS and for that yerv
reason are absolutely unqGestonabe; It, however ar
pears hat FRANCE HERSELF is sppporting the establish
Mcn! 81 those tie Vest, rnE MOUTH or Tur R,vrp
EGAN" cannot, therefore, refrain ttom entering nv
mos. Solemn prot 81 INST any operations or n,en
tons o establishing tie lIms begoad tie rrer Sabine,
until his Ialesty sAal! have resolved upon some mea.
sure v ih regard 10 the subject"
On The same page, Laussat in a note to the MARQUIS
Lodges the recep, oie protest. &C. but does not
deny nj all. but that France is supporting the Ameri
can clam 10 the RIO Bravo.
Thus 1t zee ms, from Mr. Madison account tina, both
IN the delivering of the possession of Louisiana from
Spain to France, and from France II Us, TExAs WAS
EXPRESSLY i.cLrpED In n subsequent letter OF Mr.
MADISON, Of the S'h Of JAW le0i he declares the oy
position Of Mr.. Jefferson to "rnE RELIyoulsuurSr
OF ANY TERRITORY WHATEVER EASTWARD OF the RI,
BRAVO Mr. Monroe, (lhen Minister writes on the
9Th of November, lsG enclosing documents to the De
pameh OF State, which he says, pr0re iacontestbiy
that the boundary OF Louis ana, s.Tmr Rio BRAyofo
the He>i;" and Mr. Charles Pnehney four Minister 10
Span,) unltes with hia, q sml ar Geclaa,ion and
IN Joint letter afterwards, under date of the both
April lo0o written be II noed, net TO (or,gn Gorern-
me,n but to our Secretary OF State, Mr. MADISON
they assert that title TO the RIO Braro is uag,tioaa
bic.
Well, Mr. Monroe afterwards became the Secretary
Of State under Mr. MADISON and in that capacity re-
asserts the American clam 10 lrsrs repeatedly ant N
M doubtful or cqGircca terms In letter T. Don Ons
da' The l!,ih January lclG, (Ser 1h Vol Louvre
u Franklin State Paper, page 425) he says
"i IS An"'cn to your Government, mat the u. States
Claim by ccs>on at lar equivalent, the province Of
Louisiana, as as hid by fasee prior 10 the trea #
l7o3 extending from the river Perdido, the east
SIDE OF the Mississippi 10 the Braro ar Grande on nc
reStrrn. 10 tie wh0le Territory ,sjihia Ties. limits
the United States consider TIER rieh established by
ioH hnoca aets and tho fair interpolation Of Trcattss
&c.
In another letter to the same, dated June 10Th. 1916
Ib page 1907 he says:
with respect TO The Hcsiern Boundary of Louis
ana, have to remark. that this Government has ne.
rer do"I'cd since The Trsa'y cf1s03 hiatt extended 10
the Rio Brace, &c.--"The discovery of the M;ss,s
sppI rs low down the ATkansas in 1873 and to its
mouth in 1850, and the establishment Of settlements on
that river, and on tia bay OF s.. Bernard on THE
WEsrERS SIDE OF the CoLoRADo, IN 1865, under the
authority o! France, when the nearest settlement Of
Spain was in the province of Panne0 arc facts ,rch
place the ea;m If the United States on GROUND NOT To
BE sHAkEN 1t IS known that nothing occurred after.
wards, on the part Of France, to weaken this Claim
The differences which afterwards took place, between
the rench and Spanlards, respecting Spanish en-.
croachments there, and the war which ensued TO
which they contributed, tend 10 confirm ii"
In another letter Of Mr.. Monroe OF Nav the 30ih
lsl6-no TO the Minister of Foreign nation but 10
Mr. ErvinF, our .hniscr al The Court OF Madrid
and in perfect confidence, he SAYS:
u.
(aud, as they think, hasc procsd ty cleur h. nK
the Territory lying between the pefddo on the East,
ern side OF The NJ ss'ssPpi, 10 Tie Rio Braro on Mc
ncsera. They ~'H haor tint France ,coud here
cla'mtd 10 tic sane eren, had she not made the ces-
SION.
Now he it Observed that MIR Adams was not only
perfectly familiar with all have quoted TO prove Tn.
It" Mh SITES &. have occupied this
omitted, continuing the irefutable proofs which made
that position good. But may not Mr. Adams have DIFF
fred in opinion from al! PRIOR Presidents. Secretaries
OF State and Foreign Ministers to SPAN in relation
either to the extent or validity of the American claim?
This is readily tested
10 lo*rie d Franklin State Papers, and at page 46S
Is TO be found Mr. Adamss argumen, at large, in let
Ter to Don Onis dated March l2lh, 1918 II occupies
no Jess than twelve ot those mmnth pages and is
throughout, moth Historically and logically cogent
and unanswerable demonstrutou of our right from the
Mississippi IN the Rio Bra-o have but hull space for
quotations, but there are pungent points, dispersed
over The performance, 10, germanc to the issncs dis
cussad to be wholly omitted. Here arc some of them
"Le ns (pege 400 pass 10 the Of the
Hesiern Boundary. W',h the aota of Ms.s,s Monroe
and p'nekney 10 Don Pedro Cevnos, oil 2Stb January,
1908, memoir upon thes, boundaries presented
I, that Minister psoeing that they extended Eastward
to The Perd:to, and H6Siirard n the RIO Brar0 Or
Grande del Iorte They obe!ved that no,e that tho
facts and princp'ts which Justify this conclusion,
satisfactory to their Government, TO convince it, that
thc United States hare not btuer rigai 10 The Land Of
hare 10 The mhos district cf Ie,rtory thus descrbcd
How far MIR. a concurr.d IN th's opinion, will appear
when he makes reference presently 10 his demon
STATIONS
He proceeds, (page AL } "You know, Sir, and
your notes furnish themselves the most decisive
proofs, that France whsle she held the Colony OF Lou
siana, never did acknowledge the Mississippi the
Western Boundary of that Province. The claim of
France ARRAYS did t1tend WesiHard 10 The Rio Braro
and the only boundaries acknowledged by her,
before the cssson to Spain of November3, 1862,
those marked out in the gront from Louis XIV 10 Cro-
Eat. She alrays claimed the Territory which you call
Teras. bene within the limits and forming part of
louisiana, (Which took lis very name from the Grarde
Nonarque, Louis XiV.) switch, in that grant, is de-
clared b. boundcd Uesfrard by Ntw .Hezico, East.
ward by Carolina, and extending inward 10 the Limos,
and to the Of the Mississippi, and lis principal
branches &c, &c.
1.-THE aeaote question ct right between the United
States and Spain with regard 10 ths Boundary centres
IN this The naked pretenson of Span /, the whole
circumference OF the Gulf OF Mexico, with the exer-
IN mating order of Philip eide, end the actual
occupancy Of France, by solemn charter from Lous
XIV, on the other Heii might Messrs. Pinckney and
Monroe 10 .hr Ceraios 1865 that he claim Of
the United States 10 the Eouadery Of tie Rio Braro lras