Harper's encyclopædia of United States history from 458 1906, based upon the plan of Benson John Lossing .. . ,made no change in policy. The House of 394 FLORIDA Representatives did actually pass a bill,in secret session, June 21, authorizing thepresident to take possession of east Flor-ida. The Senate rejected it, for it wouldhave been unwise to quarrel with Spain atthe moment when war was about to be de-clared against Great Britain. Jacksons invasion of Florida and hiscapture of Pensacola caused much politi-cal debate in and out of Congress. Bysome he was much censured, by otherspraise
Harper's encyclopædia of United States history from 458 1906, based upon the plan of Benson John Lossing .. . ,made no change in policy. The House of 394 FLORIDA Representatives did actually pass a bill,in secret session, June 21, authorizing thepresident to take possession of east Flor-ida. The Senate rejected it, for it wouldhave been unwise to quarrel with Spain atthe moment when war was about to be de-clared against Great Britain. Jacksons invasion of Florida and hiscapture of Pensacola caused much politi-cal debate in and out of Congress. Bysome he was much censured, by otherspraised. The United States government the affairs of a foreign nation, must takethe consequences. Secretary Adams andthe Spanish minister, Don Onis, had beenin correspondence for some time concern-ing the settlement of the Florida questionand the western boundary of the UnitedSlates next to the Spanish , pending discussion in Congress onJacksons vigorous proceedings in Florida,the Spanish minister, under new instruc-tions from home, signed a treaty, , 1819, for the cession of Florida, on the. IN A FLORIDA SWAMP. upheld him, and the Secretary of State, extinction of the various American claims John Q. Adams, made an able plea of for spoliation, for the satisfaction of justification, on the ground of the well- which the United States agreed to pay to known interference of the Spanish au- the claimants $5,000,000. The Louisiana thorities in Florida in American affairs, boundary, as fixed by the treaty, was a, and the giving of shelter to British sub- compromise between the respective offers jects inciting the Indians to make war. heretofore made, though leaning a good It was thought the British govern- deal towards the American side. It was cient would take notice of the summary agreed that the Sabine to lat. 33° N., execution of Arbuthnot and Ambrister thence a north meridian line to the Bed (see Seminole War) ; but it took the Eiver, the course of that river
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