Register of Debates in Congress, Comprising the Leading Debates and Incidents of the First Session of the Twenty-Fourth Congress: Searching Inside

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... been confirmed by the Supreme Court of the United States, upon a valid Spanish grant; that court having... decided that the title of the lands was in the Spanish Crown, which was competent to convey, by grant... their portion of the plunder within the Spanish territories, and have concealed these negroes within the depths... of possession to call these hardened criminals to account for having fled within the Spanish territory..., that whatever may have been their rights of soil or of occupancy under the Spanish Government, and by virtueof

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... that succeeded our revolutionary contest, they were pressed down below the Spanish line into the country... of offensive and defensive alliance with the Spanish Government, as early as the year 1784. By this treaty... they were incorporated into the Spanish monarchy, with certain reserved rights, depending chiefly... on the will of that Government. By the treaty between the United States and Spain, of 1795, it was stipulated that the Spanish... States by the Spanish commissioners. The white population was confined to the towns of St. Augustine

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... of this committee whether, before God and all mankind, our cause is not just? You have seen that, under the Spanish... with the Spanish Government, they had acknowledged the Spanish King as the lord and sovereign of the country... and complete jurisdiction and sovereignty was vested in, and exercised by, the Spanish Government." You have

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..., Norman French, and Moorish Spanish inhabitants of Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, and Missouri? between... of the indigenous part of the population reside. Sir, the history of all the emancipated Spanish American colonies.... Santa Anna was but one of a breed of which Spanish America for the last twenty-fiveyears has been... American pitted against the Moorish-Spanish-Mexican American; a war between the Northern and Southern

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... from the mouth of the Mississippi to the next Spanish settlement, which was Vera Cruz. The mouth..., of Louisiana, we claimed to the Rio del Norte, though the Spanish settlement of Sante Fe was at the head..., or of both; Great Britain is even now about to interfere in this war for the Spanish succession

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... States. treaty of indemnification with us, have been, nevertheless, faithfully executed by the Spanish... and such of the Spanish American Governments of this hemisphere, as have availed themselves of the intimation given to all

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... in the Spanish and French languages, both to be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent... by the Spanish Government, in pursuance of the aforesaid convention, to be deposited in the archives

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... it was granted to them by the Spanish authorities—that they stood in the relation of domestic dependent

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..., and the ignorant despoiled by the wise. Humane as we have been, compared with the conquerors of Spanish America, we

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..., at a subsequent session, it was assented to by the Spanish Cortes. The sense of this Government was

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..., it was assented to by the Spanish Cortes. The sense of this Government was, that the first ratification made