frontiers of Texas, although it would be perfectly legal as long as confined lo the known limits of the United States, could not but in time occasion disquiet and alarm with regard to the possible consequences. Of the latter, none would have been more probable than their organization of a system of progressive desertion in favor of the Texans, and by means of their agents. Who can deny the possibility of such a case, if he for a moment consider the excitement of the period, and the opportunity afforded by localities? But, althought of the spirit and the words of the Presidenl's letter to the Governor of Tennessee be praiseworthy, and may be attened with beneficial effects with regard to the future maintenance of a position of strict neutrality on the part of the United States during the disturbances in Texas, yet the undersigned regrets exceedingly that he must dissent from the opinion expressed by Mr. Forsyth at the end of his said note of the 31st ultimo. For, in order that the Department of Slate should not consider it necessary to answer the notes of the undersigned, elated the 28th of July and the 4th of August, there must be some paragraph in the said letter of the President which would serve as a reply to the question urged in those notes, and the undersigned, though he was anxious to find such a paragraph, has been unable to do so. It is true that the President there disapproves the conduct of the Governor of Tennessee in considering the order of the War Department of the 4th of May still in force; but is it also to be understood that the President withdraws or will withdraw from General Gaines, the authorization which he had given to him on the 25th of April, and had confimed on the 11th of July, to advance with his troops as far as Nacogdoches? If Mr. Forsyth can answer the undersigned in the affirmative, he will be fully satisfied, and will in fact acknowledge that there is not need of Mr. Forsyth's again occupying himself with those notes. The undersigned avails himself of this opportunity to renew lo the Honorable Mr. John Forsyth, Secretary of State of these United States, the assurance of his distinguished consideration.
M. R. Fr Gorostiza.
Hon. John Forsyth, Secretary of State.
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