5908. NEW ORLEANS, Suspension of right.—[continued].
The government of Spain
has instantly redressed the infraction of treaty
by her Intendant at New Orleans. * * *
By a reasonable and peaceable process we have
obtained in four months, what would have cost
us seven years of war, 100,000 human lives, 100
millions of additional debt, besides ten hundred
millions lost by the want of market for our
produce, or depredations on it in seeking markets,
and the general demoralizing of our citizens
which war occasions.—
To John Bacon.
Ford ed., viii, 229.
(W.
April. 1803)
See Louisiana and Mississippi River Navigation.
