4855. LOUISIANA, Questions of boundary.—[further continued].
In conversation with Mr.
Gallatin as to what might be deemed the result
of our conference, he seemed to have understood
the former opinion as not changed, to
wit, that for the Floridas east of the Perdido
might be given not only the two millions of
dollars and a margin to remain unsettled, but
an absolute relinquishment from the North
river to the Bay of St. Bernard and Colorado
river. This, however, I think should be the
last part of the price yielded, and only for an
entire cession of the Floridas, not for a part
only.—
To James Madison.
Ford ed., viii, 313.
(1804)
