, 1843-01-07

] '"e'Si HutiIctOuS duutcIlCc ABOUT TIT
: conquest o: Mexico and the proves.
and progress Of the Anglo Saxons.
|, He spoke of the first attempt OF
the part of England at Colonization
as having been made in 1900, wher
Elizabeth granted a charter to the
East india company-those mer
chant pfinces-who from the smalles
beginning grew to such plentitude AMI
power rs to possess themselves o
the whole of India. Their way, saic
he, was 'to set nabob against nabob'
saying TO his nabob-"Give me
that fellow" country and | will fight
your battles against him until they
had whipped all the nabobs IN it, and
stripped them of all their sovereign
ty." Now, continuedhe, John Bull
Is shaking his headat and pitching his
horns into the China shops, dashing
about their wares at a great rate--alI
because they wouldn't eat opium,
when John Bull said they snould.-
Seven years ssfter. in 1907, King
James granted a charter TO the first
settlers at jamestown, Virginia. Set
Elements of Engfishmen now began
to form on our Atlantic shores. The
Purlians came to Plymouth and Mas
sachusstts Bay. They protested kind
hness--but shortly hogan to elbow the
Indians out of the wav-and al
though Phillip of Mount Hope. made
Il desperate rally, they were obliged
10 succumb. Penn began in peace
under an Old elm tree. but his follow.
ers forgot his maxims. and they drove
out the red man in Pennsylvania.
While this wasgoing on the French
were essaying the colonization of this
continent. In Sail. Hennepin and
Joliet, from the Canadas. threaded
the lakes and the Illinois and launch.
ed upon the Mississippi. In 1880
kaSkaskia and Cohokia were found
ed-Piaces which showed at one time
4 French population Of 9OOO-5 of
WHICH were at Cahokia. Fort Char
tres, below us, was built at the enor-
nous expense Of 100000 francs,
and the engineer, committed suicide !
on being rcprimanded for bis cx-
travagance. They settled at Vim !
cennes-and erected Fort Duquesne {
-oa tie site of Pittsburgh. Charlie {
FOLK spoke in raptures of the west.
The Ohio was La bale ririerc, and
he Mississippi WAS named after The !
French kim. {
But the English had their eve too {
lpon The west. Coke. of Carolina, ?
nd been up the Mississippi above
New Orleans, and claimed the coun- /,
ry Tor the English by the RICH, of a
discovery. The English went to |;
york and rapidly dispersed Johnny n
'rapeau. Gen. George Rogers Clark =
ook the fort at Vincennes with so :.
zen which he adroitly kept marching d
yer and round hill ia such n way W
$ TO make the garrison believe the m
Duke Of Wellington's army" was f,
elore them. OF course they sur W
endered. The same quick work W
made Of all the other French h,
'rts. Fort Chartres was strong and
olendidly provided, having brass
lnnon furnished from France. These AZ
ere all abandoned at the approach re
: the enemy, and the garrison ':put" IL
ross the river. u
The fact was, that the French -
ere going through Il process of de- n ~
o~rallzati0n at home. Of this, full e.,
'ooF is furnished by Pascasl's Pro- ~
ncial Letters, which Gibson admir- ho
SO much, that he regularly read f.,
once every year. They had ;st
d managers in Church and State. -,
ouis NH had three father confess ho
rs, and Louis XIV, four. Things III,
worse and worse, until the DIV
-ench Revolution broke out in blood 80.
d thunder--and then the Jesuits ha
ere packed off to his 'Majesly the m
'pe." Buonapartc came in and hush 20,
the warning clements. He first RI,
,de war on the Pope, and then CO,
ide peace with him-and then the :, 6
.lnighty took him by the nopc of an
e neck and pinned him down on Gdp,
g island of St. Helena" ut
Bonaparte sold Louisiana 4 the wi
,ited States. The truth is, that he int
we should have it any how. tin
lie made a virtue of necessity and ,
d it 10 Us. Into The valley of the r.
.ssissippi, a large population was = :,
n.tantly pouring-many Of whom 80
re from abroad. He did not care ~.
many came, but he did care ,ho
at master they served. Before .m1
would ever bow to an ecc!esiasii- Tl'
despotism he would die.) He 20
cd not how fraa tho IA tkol,,e ID l.