944. BOUNDARIES, United States and Spain.—[further continued] .
It is not true that our
ministers, in agreeing to establish the Colorado
as our western boundary, had been obliged to
exceed the authority of their instructions. Although
we considered out title good as far as
the Rio Bravo, yet in proportion to what they
could obtain east of the Mississippi, they were
to relinquish to the westward, and successive
sacrifices were marked out, of which even the
Colorado was not the last. [59]
—To W. A. Burwell. Washington ed. v, 20.
Ford ed., viii, 469.
(M.
Sep. 1806)
