The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-08-07

son, 1t is not easy TO comprehend; vet il 49,.
have wholly COMPOUNDED MIR. Greenhov t@
stead Of giving the very plain and simn. VAC
which must be obvious to every one ,n,.
from the argument presented to him bv M ~
ner, and says, al pronounce il 1.-THE ouota,;a. ~
Bradford) 10 be merely gratuitous. ana
unfounded opinion, as TO the limits of o,;. wv
The DIRT Of Mr.. Greenhow settles no,h;ua
leaves the whole point to his antagonis,
before the living, and assails the dead. ,.ts
might destroy Mr.. Falconer's sophism bv ,sa@
conclusive answer. The quotation usca I Is
Bradford does moi imply that England bounAs2, Y
siana through the ,choie extent OF the noy,bs.ls
of that country; nor that Spain bounded a wv
whole extent Of its southern line. Ifit imnE.a
IL eeriainIy implies the other; and if Spain shopH
or subsequent to the purchase, set up claim y
country between the Sabine and the eastern Nv
Louisiana, to an indefinite extent from n. n
northwardly, bounding our whole oas., ~'
ton of Louisiana on the south throuoS :.
tire reach from the Sabine to the Perdido Nv
sustain her claim by the same inferar.a
language is not susceptible of such or.s y
country lay between England and Snan
the mountains to the Mississippi Fng.,i ny
north. From the Pacific to the Sabine Sr.s.
south; and Louisiana was between ibsrr
though, as whole, it lay between Spain Ona
land, there ,cas strip on the south that Wa, !.
bounded by Spain; and there nigh, BE- also !,
north, quite consistently with that desrrn,;..
strip that was not bounded by England a
This, though very simple and very oh,..
is yet complete answer to Mr.. FalconeIs sia.
ference IL is so plain, that he who runs m,S y,
and at the same time so decisive, that the a., y
that Spain does not bound our whole sou,b nv
well be denied as the conclusiveness Of ,hs s.
be questioned. Mr.. Greenhow might SO b s''S
swered and settled the controversy, SO far a. i :.
upon that sophsm. But, in taking upon NM
the odious Office Of defaming the honorab. N
learned dead, he leaves Mr.. Falconers false noun
without any satisfactory answer. And With N
says that the quotation given by Mr. Bradford ~
not quotation, but "a gratuiious and c,yla;,h 4
founded opinion" Mr.. Falconer NAV well ,m
others will undoubtedly think, that assertion sfS
Greenhow to be both "gratutous and upiouOd,d Il
The words quoted by the historian have noh,
TO do with the limits Of the country. Thew NJ
merely descriptive. France could not dsA0. i
limit the possessions of Spain on the one side !,
England ON the other Nor did she atempt il nj
do the words quoted settle any mees and bou,A
Much less do they establish or prove any Clam
Great Britain or Spain.
cannot say where the precise words, "A ouo,J
in the History of the Federal Government, ara IN \
found. Du Pratt, in his History of Louisiana ~
an expression, however, substantially the an,|
He describes il extending belpeen ii. SpaniA n,
English setiiemsns'--page 10. The close smIrl
tyin fact, the substantial identity twoub,I
SEES, sufficiently shows that what is given as a al,
taiion by Mr.. Bradford, was, in fact, found BY N
somewhere in the papers relating to the subiss
and was not "gratuitous and unfounded opinuj
Of his.
VIM. J. A. BRADFORD.
Observation-Disclosures, partly known to you|
self, MIR. Editor, have detained the publication
the foregoing some weeks after it was prepared.