favor of the Federation and the Constitution of 1824. If this should turn out to be true time alone can develope the consequences. This man is said to exercise great influence in Durango and the northern Stales.
Powhallan Ellis
Hon. Andrew Jackson President
[4082) [GOROSTIZA to DICKlNS J
Philadelphia, August 26, 1836. The undersigned has learned with great satisfaction, from the informal nole addressed to him on the 23d instant, by the honorable Asbury Dickins, acting Secretary of Stale of these United States, that the Secretary of War had nol received any despatch or notification of the reported passage of the Sabine by General Gaines, as late as the 22d instant, inclusive. The undersigned is the more gratified by receiving this information from l\fr. Dickins, as, from the contents of a letter published yesterday in the Globe, which he Lakes the liberty lo enclose to Mr. Dickins, there was real cause for apprehending that this movement, so important and disastrous, had been achially effected. On comparing the dates, however, the undersigned now begins to entertain strong hopes that the said leller may be one of the many fabrications with which the newspapers daily regale their readers. The undersigned repeats to Mr. Dickins the request with which his note of the 10th instant terminates; and avails himself of this opportunity to renew to him the assurances of his most distinguished consideration. M. E. de Gorostiza. Hon. A. Dickins, Aeling Secretary of State.
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