10As late as August 12, 1836, Jackson writes apologetically to Amos
Kendall: "We contend, from the words and spirit of the treaty, that
all the navigable waters of the Sabine belong to the United States . . .
and as I am advised will be able to show from the ancient map of Spain
that the western branch . . . was known by the name of the Sabine
at the time Louisiana was ceded. . . . We have been anxious to
run this line for a long time." J. S. Bassett, ed., The
Correspondence
of
Andrew
Jackson,
V, 420.
