4852. LOUISIANA, Possession by Great Britain.—[continued].
It is said that Arnold is
at Detroit reviewing the militia there. Other
symptoms indicate a general design on all
Louisiana and the two Floridas. What a
tremendous position would success in these
two objects place us in! Embraced from the
St. Croix to the St. Mary's on one side by
their possessions, on the other by their fleet
we need not hesitate to say that they would
soon find means to unite to them all the territory
covered by the ramifications of the
Mississippi.—
To James Monroe.
Ford ed., v, 199.
(N.Y.,
July. 1790)
