San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-04-07

uuder any circumstances have them
il he could help it, consequently ne
offered the whole for sale TO the
United States, by whom IL was OF
course bought at very low price.
This took place during the presidency
of Jefferson in 1902.
The southern states, that were ex-
cluded from the north territory by
their slave WORK, considered this
newly acquired Louisiana territory as
theirs. There was little time TO attend
to questions of this kind either north
or south; since north as well as south
of the Ohio there we're large Indian
tribes ST enmity aud war with the
white settlers. Especially was this the
case in the north where the indians
liked to be considered as allies of the
English and received their pay from
them. 1t took many hard fight IN
which, in the north, Mr.. Harrison,
the grandfather of our present presi-
dent, as q leader, soon won high
honors and distinguished himself by
his bravery, while Jackson was equal
ly 80 in the south.
Ills tIlCh VI kNdpulcOu WIS q ecNot0
blow to the English; their jealousy
was aroused to n high degree and it
was but natural that this rich piece of
land should have fallen in the hands
of the Americans 1t was intolerable.
They do not write the personal pro
noun with q big capital "I' for moth
ing. But even more than this was,
that they hated the friendly feeling
between the Americans and French.
Napoleon, on the other hand,
since he could not give the
English q soaking across the
channel, gave q severe thrashing to
her allies the Austrians and Russians
at the battle of AusterlitZ in 1905.
Prussia. with her minister Haugwitg,
whose mental sagacity and narrow
mindedness had not been instrument
tai in the invent ton of gun powder
was Kept in ignorance and after be-.
ing severely disappointed got disas-
trOus whipping at GeBa in 1905. The
glorious name of old Fritz" without
his spirit, could not work wonders.
! England finding that Napo.
leon was getting too strong on
the mainland, commenced to
| tantalize America, which latter
| after losing all patience came out first
| best in numerous naval fights but
also taught the British Lion that
there were some people living in this
side of the big pond The battle of
New Orleans was really not neces-
| sary; owing to the snail like COM
munication of sailing vessels, the alb
sence of telegraph in those days, Gen.
/ Do al-n = in, ~
British forces could therefore not
know that peace had been made be.
tween the con tending rulers in Eu-
rope at that time.
| And now atten ton was given to
the Indians who, north and south
were finally pushed west of
the Mississippi, but even pre-
vious to this an arrangement
was made and agreed to between
north and south in reference to the
Louisiana Territory, namely: thai all
lands north Of the southern boundary
of Missouri and west Of the same
should bereserved for the formation
of free states; regarding the southern
part, 1t should be lett to the people as
To whether they became free or slave
| states, thus it was that Missouri and
Arkansas were admitted into the
union as slave states In consequence
of the Missouri compromise. In
q like manner was it that Texas, after
It's requirement by the United States,
| became q slave state with the south.
| An attempt of the wings to found q
| United States bank after the model
of the Bank of England was unsuc
cessful, owing TO the opposition OF
President Jackson. But it was this
same Jackson, who was the father of
ITO the ConquerOr Belong the Spoils, -
and which has since become en- ism
OF national noteriety, through which
was Introduced the "party harness
and office seeking element" and open
ed door and gates in the government
service and brought with il destruc-
ton and ruin. Regarding slavery,
everything was quiet At each ad
mission OF new territories as states,
one was taken as a slave state, the
next as free state, thus maintaining
and equilibrium. The only exception
to this rule was made in regard to
California, which was admitted as q
free state and changed matters en-.
tirely, for from this time on the
southern states aimed to break up
the Missouri compromise in which
they finally succeeded, being aided
by the votes of many northern MEM
bers Of congress. But how did this
happen? Simply by, or from the fact
that the northwestern states were fill
ing up with emigrants from Europe,
who were not familiar with the con.
ditions and situations Of the country,