2Judge H. M. Brackenridge observed with regard to President Jackson's
boundary pretension, in 1836: "The boundary set up by our Government
in the place of the Sabine, contrary to the treaty, contrary to all the maps,
and to the continued assertions of Louisiana, is something entirely new
to me. . . . I never heard of another
Sabine; nor did it ever enter
into the head of any one, while I was in Louisiana, to claim the post of
Nacogdoches excepting under the general pretension to the whole as far
as the Rio del Norte, which was abandoned by the treaty. I think the
case too plain even for the pretense of claim." Brackenridge's letter,
August 1, 1836, in National
Intelligencer,
August 24, 1836.
