. The trans-Mississippi West (1803-1853) a history of its acquisition and settlement. THE MEXICAN CESSION 505 States selected as its agent to adjust the outstandingdifficulties a southerner by the name of James letter of appointment was dated May 24, 1853, andhe received other communications dated July 1,15, and16. The instructions given must have been completeand He was directed to make no effort atthat time to renew negotiations regarding the isthmusof Tehuantepec, and probably he was authorized to payfifteen or twenty millions of dollars for Lower Cali-fornia, Sonora
. The trans-Mississippi West (1803-1853) a history of its acquisition and settlement. THE MEXICAN CESSION 505 States selected as its agent to adjust the outstandingdifficulties a southerner by the name of James letter of appointment was dated May 24, 1853, andhe received other communications dated July 1,15, and16. The instructions given must have been completeand He was directed to make no effort atthat time to renew negotiations regarding the isthmusof Tehuantepec, and probably he was authorized to payfifteen or twenty millions of dollars for Lower Cali-fornia, Sonora, and a portion of Chihuahua togetherwith a release from further responsibility for the In-dians of the Southwest. Treaty is drawn up.—With his instructions in handGadsden arrived at his destination in August and im-mediately entered upon his duties. The two things inwhich he was probably most interested were the acqui-sition of territory and a route for a southern Pacificrailway, but the Mexican Minister of Relations waspersistent in his demands for a settlement of Indiandiffic
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