1. The enclosure (3 pp.; printed in Carter, Territorial Papers, Orleans description begins Clarence Carter et al., eds., The Territorial Papers of the United States (28 vols.; Washington, 1934–75). description ends , 9:504–6) is John Graham’s 16 Sept. 1805 letter to Claiborne, commenting on the candidates for the election beginning that day; reporting that the alarm over the plotted slave insurrection had died down; describing recent U.S. troop movements and stating the general belief that the federal government should increase the number of regular army troops in the region; repeating reports that 600 Spanish troops were ordered for Pensacola, and 5,000 for the U.S.-Mexican frontier; stating that Casa Calvo had been quite ill and was rumored to have received letters from Madrid saying the government would request diplomatic status for him; and touching on the arrest of the Spaniards who had taken the Kempers, the seizure of an American ship at Mobile for failure to pay duties, and the confiscation there of goods bound for Fort Stoddart for the same reason.