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Excerpt from Mr. Adams' Defence of General Jackson's Conduct in the Seminole War
From the last mentioned correspondence, the Spanish government must likewise have' been satisfied that the occupation of these places in Spanish Florida, by the commander of the American forces, was not by virtue of any order received by him from this government to that effect, no with any view of wres'ting'the provmce from the¿posses5wn of Spain, nor in any spirit of hostility to the Spanish government; that it arose from incidents which occurred iii the prosecution of the war against the the imminent danger in which the fort of St. Marks was of being seized by the Indians themselves, and from the manifestations of hostility to the United States by the comman dant of St. Marks and the governor of Pensacola, the proofs of which were made known to' General Jackson, and impelled him, from the ne-i cessity ofiself-defence, to the steps of which the Spanish government complains.
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