Richmond Enquirer

TO THE EDITOR OF THE ENQUIRER.

Your paper of the 12th inst, contains an article from the N. Orleans Courier, charging the Texians with an invasion of our Territory. If such was the case, I should be the last to justify it But. knowing as I do, that the people on the Red river frontier have settled on the rich lands of the Caddo Indians, West of the boundary line running North from the 32d deg of North latitude on the Sabine to Red river, I doubt very much if Shreve- port, at the debouchement of the Bayou Pierre from the Main stream of Red river, is not in the Republic of Texas. as. It is certainly so, if Darby's survey, under the treaty with Spain, of Feb , 1819, be correct. He found the 32d degree on the Sabine, and ran the line to Red river, due North, according to the treaty, striking it near the head of Bayou Pierre river. Natchitoches lies in North latitude 31 deg. 50 m , according to Samuel Ruddock, Civil Engineer, formerly of Charleston, S Carolina, He took great pains to have it correct, producing from his several astronomical observations, the result afore-mentioned.31 deg. 50 m. Hence run a line due West from a point 10 miles North of Natchitoches, and it will strike the Sabine far East of the point assumed on either Melish's or Tanner's map The county of Miller, claimed by Arkansas, is, without doubt, in the Republic of Texas; and the only pretension ever made to it was on account of its contiguity to our Territory, and its being a settlement without any Government—the Mexican Government having scarcely any knowledge of it. General Houston is well acquainted with the boundary line, and I presume, Gen. Rusk also.

We will even suppose Rusk had entered our Territory in pursuit of robbers and murderers; I do not think such a fuss should be made about it. And if the Indians were furnished with arms and ammunition to make war on our neighbors, no one can possibly justify it. I may have been misinformed as to the location of Shreveport. but I am very certain it is at the head of the Raft, and near the outlet of Bayou Pierre. It is believed, that the immense sums expended on Red River have been to very little purpose, and even should the enterprise succeed, all the land above the Raft, south of Red River, belongs to Texas, and all the land west of the mouth of Little River, on the north bank of Red River belongs to the Choctaw Indians.

A FRIEND TO TEXAS.