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Begins: The passage of the President's message, which relates to the forcible occupation of West Florida, imperiously claims the attention of every American ... The object of the writer of the following pages is to discuss the title to that territory.
Signed "Verus". Don Luis de Onis was appointed minister to the United States in 1809 by the Spanish then in control of the junta government, but he was not received by President Madison till 1815, after the restoration of Ferdinand VII. He had remained meanwhile in the United States, rendering his country such service as he could, including the publication of certain pamphlets over the signature "Verus". cf. His Memoir upon the negotiations between Spain and the United States, 1821, p. 22; also Appleton's cyclo. of Amer. biog.