New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-05-27

aud 70 each child o acres in the time they vera
to work for him. Dr. Tarnball settled them upon ais
lsDds 60 miles south Of 81. Augustine. aud worked
them in raising provisions and indigo. They cleared
ditched and cultivated more than 1000 acres Of land
but the Doctor did not keep his contract With them
he reduced them to slavery. placed task masters
them; women and children were scourged aud negroes
employed to use the lash. Sometimes they we're
cruelty whipped sep, tied to trees all night. for tho
mosquitoes to feed upon. For nine long years they
endured this ntoleable slavery. In mo- the year Of
AMERICAN IspkrEyDKycE, they escaped TO Sc. Augus-
tine, consulted with the Attorney-GenerL. and the
claim of TurnbuT was judiciay repudia,ed Their
original number was 500 but had become reduced to
coo; ard these assigned lots north of the City Of
St. Augustine where they built houses. made gardens
and enlarged their borders and many Of their descend
snts among the most attractive and most re-
spectacle portion Of the population ofthe State
Between 1912 aud 1915 the United States and Eas-
land were at war-the Spanish Government q. Peusa-
cola permitted the English fleets to enter the ports Of
West Florida, to operate against the United States
After the peace British traders aud agents excited the
Indians in Georgia and Florida to make war upon the
white settlements The United States Government
sent Genetsl JACKSON IN 1910, win an army 10 cnns
tse and restrain them, and he destroyed the Indian
towns and took possession of the Spanish Fort at ST.
Marks. On the Suwsnee River he captured two Eng
lishmen, Arbuthnot and Ambrster, who were charged
and found guilty by Court Martial Of aiding aud In
citing the Indians in their murderoas depredasions
the whites. Gen. Jackson confirmed she sentence aud
hanged them at st Marks.'
Gen Jackson laid down this principle and acted upon
it il is established principle ofhe laws of nations
that any individual Of nation, making against tbs
czens Of any other nation, they being peace orfets
hs allegiance and becomes outlaw aud pirate This
was no. regarded by many asgood law audit said
could not be found in Grous Vstte any other stand
ard writer on international law but Gen. Jackson
sustained and his conduct indicated by John Quincy
Adams This principle has since been acted upon by tho
Captain General of Cuba, in condemning to death
the fifty men under Crittenden, in the Lopez expedition
Spain occupied Florida 235 years. and kept up mill
tar, ports at ST. Augustine and Pensacola nearly all THAI
time but the country remained unsettled aud produced
no revenue The annual cost to Spain is said to have
been 100000 and che annual cost to England. during
her 2I year possession about million Of dollars.
In February. 1921, Spain sold to the United States
East and West Florida for S5OOOOO0 to be paid to tho
citizens of the United States for losses sustained by rea
Congress passed law authorizing the President to take
possession and all military, civil and Judicial powers
vested in such person he should direct until the end
of the next session of Congress Under this Law. Presi
dent Monroe appointed AspREw Jackson, Governor.
and other persons Judges &c. of Florida and by Gen.
Jacksons commission he had conferred upon him, An
the powers and authorities heretofore exercised by tho
Governor and Captain General and Inendant Of Caba
ond by the Governors of East aud West Florida" Here
we're indefinite aud mitless powers. Gen. Jackson could
officially do any thing the Captain General Of Cuba had
done or could doand Jackson was not the man 20 doubt
The right to exercise any powers conferred and az hs
construed them.
He took possession Of East Florida on the 10th Of
July ls2l and of West Florida tho l7ta of the sams
| month On the Itch he issued proclamation, and
making his headquarters az Pensacola on the lSsh
he published an ordinance establishing City Couacl
to preserve order and levy taxes On the 10Th he pro-
claimed quarantine regulations On the Goth no disi-
Odd the Territory into counties, establishing courts
of Justice &c On the 2Ist he illustrated bis pc sers
of Captain. Gencralship by sending body Of soldiers
and arrestng the ex-Spanish Governor tskog him out
Of bed at night, because the Ex-Governor would not
give up certain papers, and when he protested at the
ndenty offered his person. Jackson scnthimto prisca
The United States Judge then Issued habeas eorpHs
20 bring the Ex-Governor before him. whereapoa Cen
Jackson ordered the Judge before him. and would have
sent him to prison had he not suspended his Judicial
functions Next Governor Jackson sent and searched
the Spansh Governors house. obtained the papers, and
released his prisoner A few days after the eI Gov
ernor and his Spanish friends published structures
upon Gen Jackson's conduct, whereupOn be immed-
aey Janshed them from the country, ordering them to
quit in four days, under penalty Of imprisonment.
Such was the beginning Of Gen JacksOns exercise Of
the mowers Of CaptainGeneral Of Florida and which
were significant premontion Of the he could
and did exercise the powers OF Chief Executive Mags
trate Of the Republic. ThegOvenment Of Gen Jackson
in Florida was terminated by act Of Congress- March 80
| 1879. providing for regular Territorial Government
Florida was admitted into the Union as State in 545
Ever since the search Of Juan Ponce for the Foun-
"tan of Youth" within her borders Florida has been
land Of hopes and fances-fancy has painted her in
BRIGHT and brilliant cOOrs-she has been represented as
containing twenty millions Of Of the best lands in
the worM-where the fruits Of st. Domingo grew Wild
where the olive tree nourshed well az in France and
having million Of Of coffee lands, she could supply
TIE world with sugar, coffee, &c.
And when the subject Of her acquisition before
Conoress JOHN RANDOLPH said, "Florids, Mr. Speaker
"Florida. Sir is land of ponds and swamps and quag
nires. Of crocodes and alligators, and snakes and
frog, and fevers-no man will ever emigrate TO t-no,
Sir, not from Purgatory itself"
The truth lies between the extremes Florida is di
yersied country having good lands and poor lands
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