have been nolified thro lhe minister of Mexico, Lhat since your misfortune of being made prisoner, Lhal none of your agreements as President and commander of the .Mexican [Government] with the aulhorilies of Texas would be recognised by the de facto Government of Mexico it being [obvious?) your powers ceased with your capture. therefore until the existing Government of Mexico ask our friendly offices between the Contending parties, Mexico and Texas, we cannot interfere, hut should Mexico ask it, our friendly offices will, with pleasure, be afforded to restore peace and put an end lo this inhuman warfare al whose acts of barbarity and massacre has occasioned every christian people and humanity to shudder and condemn. Your letter and that of Gen) Houston commander in chief of the Texian Army, will be made the basis, of an early interview with the Minister of Mexico at Washington. These communications will hasten my return to Washington, to which place I will set out in a few days and reach there by the first of October next. in the mean time I hope Mexico and Texas will both find that war is one of the greatest evils, and will pause before another campaign can increase the evils which you were so anxious [lo I avert. I am respeclfully yr. mo. obdt. servt. Andrew Jackson [To Santa Annas] [4145] [MORFIT to FORSYTH I Columbia, in the interior, September 4, 1836. Sir: The views of this Government and of leading individuals as to the true line of boundary between the United States and Texas are the same as those assumed by Mexico upon that question; and invariably I have been referred to the treaty of limits as defining precisely the adjoining territory of either party. The only point admitted to be doubtful is that relating to the source of the Arkansas, which some old hunters suppose may go beyond the 42d degree of north latitude, so as lo extend the northwestern boundaries beyond those described in the maps. The idea prevailed in the neighborhood of Natchitoches previously to the treaty with Spain in 1819, and I am told is still entertained by some of the settlers, that the river designated as the Neches was traditionally known as the western Sabine. Dr. Sibley, of the
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