The undersigned is, moreover, not aware that any claim of this nature has ever been advanced on the part of the American Government; and this appears so much the more strange to him, as the undersigned, before leaving Mexico, was enabled to examine all the correspondence which had for many years been carried on between the two Governments, on the subject of limits, and does not recollect to have found anything there contradicting his· assertion, unless it be the solitary and vague indication contained in Mr. Butler's uote of the 21st December, 1834, already mentioned by the undersigned in one of his late communications. The undersigned, in consequence, finds himself now under the sad necessity of addressing the honorable John Forsyth, Secretary of State of the United Stales, for the purpose of protesting against the authorization given to General Gaines to go with his troops to Nacogdoches, because he considers it essentially, and with regard to its possible effects, as a positive violation of the territory which is known lo be Mexican. The undersigned had the honor already, on the 23d and 28th of April last, in inform Mr. Forsyth under what point of view he considered the communication made to him by the Secretary of State, in the conference held on the 20th of that month; and if he, in a manner, engaged to await the orders of his Government on the subject, it was assuredly not because he yielded his right, but because neither from the memorandum of the conference, nor from the written communications of Mr. Forsyth, could the undersigned have gathered that General Gaines had already been instructed as to the ground which he might overrun with his troops, and the point where he was to stop. The undersigned avails himself of this opportunity to renew to the honorable John Forsyth the assurances of his distinguished consideration.
M. E. De Gorostiza.
Hon. John Forsyth, Secretary of State.
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