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8418. TERRITORY, Spanish pretensions.—

I say nothing of the claims of Spain
to our territory north of the thirty-first degree,
and east of the Mississippi. They never
merited the respect of an answer [to Spain];
and * * * it has been admitted at Madrid
that they were not to be maintained.—
To William Carmichael. Washington ed. iii, 173. Ford ed., v, 217.
(N.Y., 1790)