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Cdry CT LOuiSIdHd oS Ouu lal til0i H-9 cavil.
 Mr. Jefferson. in his letter to Mr. Bowdoin, 1lth July, 1866, Jeff. cor p. 59, says:
 "With respect to our western boundary, your instructions will be your guide. will only add as a comment to them. that we are attached to the retaining the bay of St. Bef- nard, because 1t was the first establishment of the unfortunate La Sale, agas ihe cfadle of Louisiana, and more incontestably GOV cred and conveyed to Us by France under that name, than any other spot nthe country 7
 "st. Bernard's Bay, bay in the gulf ot Mexico, on the coast of Texas. Lon. 96, 50, w.; lat. 28, 90, n.-Worcester's Gazet- teer, cd. 1923"
 Louisiana was ceded by France to Spain in 176I, and was reiroceded by Spain to France ia 1900, and occupied by France.- By the treaty of Paris of the 30th April, 1903, ii was ceded by France to the United States, and the possession delivered by the French authorities in 1904.
 Mr. Madison, expressing hl9 own views, and those of Mr. Jefferson, in letter of the 31st March, 1804, says that Louisiana Sex tended weStwardly to Rio Bravo otherwise called Rio Bravo Del Koyte. Orders were accordingly obtained from the Span ish authorities for the delivery of dH the posis on the west side of the Mississippl;2 ;2 and in letter of the 3lst January, 1894, Mir Madison states that II. Laussat, the com missioner by whom the French government d8licered tae possession of Loaisiana 10 as, announced s:.6e d8I .Noric IS its true boua- daryl in a letter of the 8th July, l804, Mr Madison declares the opposition of Mir. Jefferson to tie s.feiia4&istmsnt q any ter- ritory r4atepcr easlUafd Qf He Brago."
 Mr. Monroe, il a letter of the 8,h Nov., i833, aencf7sS documents which, hes says, o4f9rg Rc0a5e5,a5ly" that the boundary of Louisiana i5 .'lhe Rio Bravo to the wcst;o and }If. PiaekneF unites with Mr. Monroe ia q similar declaration. and on tie 20th Apfil I835, in a letter to AIr. Madison, they assert cur tiAe 9o he unqaestionable. Mir. Monroe. in his letters of jan. l9 and June 10, I8i5, says that noHe could question ''oRr tals 10 Itras,n and coacufs with Mr. Jellef- son, aasi Air Madison in the opinion "ttat CIT iats 10 tbe dei .N6fie eeas as cIeaf ds b &s istaj3 ef .Neae 0flaaas."
 Ii 5oha Quincy Adams, in letter to Don Cais Of the l2.h March, 1918, says
 "'Fhee!aim ef Francealways did extend west wagdto tha Rio BravoA x x " ..She dileay8 claimed tha territory which you call Texas, as being within the limits and forming part oi Loasianao
 And ke further says:
 tWeiI might Massfs. Paekneg and Mon- roe wriie to II. CeyalIos, in 1895, that tie claim ef the United States to the boundary of the Rio Bravo was clear as their right to tie island of New Oleans.o
 And n hs letter of the 31st of October, ISIS, he says
 Our tide to Texas is established beyond the power of further controversy"
 3Ir. Adams, iR his letter Of instructions to iIr George Graham, of June 2nd, 1918, says:
 s.Tha President wishes you to to proceed with alIconyenient speed to that place, Gal yeston,1 unless, as is not improbable, you should, in the progress of the journey, learn that they have abandoned or been driven from it. Should they have removed to .Nat- agordg5 or aRy other place north of the Rio Bfaro, and 7ejtbia ttc territory claimed by ibe Ua8ed Siaies, you will repair thither. without, however, exposing yourself to be captured by any Spanish military force When arrived, you wili, in 2 suitable man. Ter, make known 10 Inc chief or leader ol the expedition your authority from the gov ernment tie |. States, and express the sur prise with which the President has seen pos session thus taken, without authority from tie United S.a:es, of C place wjthin their Territorial }tmits, and upon aehieh ao laefal seHicmaM cHa b3 made aciihoUt Hejf saac- lien. Tom will call upon him explicitly tc ayow under what national authority they profess 10 act; and take care that due warn ing be given 10 tine whole body that fbe piacc is wil5ia lie JHiicd Slaics, acho wiH SHfcl 10 psrmuAeRi ssHiameM to be nude Hers uldcr any autb3rjig oftcr han Heir o3ca.o
 3ir. Clay, speech on the Spanish treaty April ?, l820, C4lalIory, vel. l, 40G and 401, il:
 The tide to the Perddo on the one side and 10 inc Rio Del Norte on the other, res ted ea the same priaeple-the priority of discovery, and of occupation by France the principle observed among European na tons having contiguous settlements heinz that the uuoccupied space between then should he equally diyided.n "ln 1885, hc 6La Salie made an establishment on the Bay ef St. Bernard, west of the Colorado, emp tying into it. The nearest Spanish settle ment was Panuco; and the Rio del None about the midway line, became the common boundary''
 Mir. Clay also, in his letter of the 17lI April, 1874, published in the National Intel ligoncer, says:
 ''The United States acquired title to Tex as, extending, as believe to the Rio del Nore, by the treaty of Louisiana. They ceded and reinqushed that title to Spain by the treaty of 1919, by which the Sabine was substituted for the Rio del Norte as our wes- tern boundary.o
 Buthe would not enlarge nor add 10 the small portion of exlstiHg evidence that he had re- lerred to. l. could readily be shown by the concurrent authority of every prominent public man in the eouatry-bv the public ministers of the United States, France, an, Spain, and by the whole history of the times Hat nc trae boundaries of Louisiana, en- tcaded 10 fhe Rio dcl .Y6ric, tor the Ric Bravo, as il Is sometimes called,l and that therefore, by the treaty of 1903, we did ac- quire all of Texas, including lands and ia.