The Hawaiian gazette., 1893-08-08

| purchase was Sl5,000,000, and th'
| United States assumed the paymen
of certain claims existing against thu
| territory in behalf of some of our clti
zens. This purchase was undoubt
eddy the most important peaceful
event in the whole history OF oul
country and is a romance in itself
spain had held Louisiana since before
| our revolution. For many years hel
! possession of New Orleans and of the
Mississippi river had been a standing
menace to the peace and safety of ou
! country.
SPANISH INTRIGUES.
AT one time her intrigues with the
| people of the west almost threatened
| the disruption of the newly formed
Union. 1t was openly charged, and
by many believed. that Gen. Will
kinson of Kentucky was for some
years in the pay of the Spanish king,
with the Interior object of detaching
the west from the federal government
and setting up an Independent gov
eminent, or becoming a dependency
of the Spanish crown. But in 1900
Spain ceded Louisiana to her old
enemy France, and the hold-over gov
ernor of the province issued a pro-
clamation closing the navigation OF
the river and abolishing the right of
deposit at New Orleans, which right
the western people had enjoyed since
1875.
Jefferson became alarmed. He de-
clared that whoever held New Orleans
was by that fact our enemy. He
secured an appropriation of two mil
lions of dollars from Congress to buy
the island of Orleans and sent James
Monroe as minister extraordinary to
France and Spain to act in con-
junction with our regular ministers
already there. Their proposition TO
buy a place of deposit for western
merchandise was met by a counter
proposition to sell an empire.
Here was puzzle. Jefferson was
the apostle and high priest of the doc
trine of strict construction of the
powers of the federal government. 1t
had power under the constitution to
buy q depot for the purposes Of COM
merce, but none to acquire and annex
territory. But the AnglO-SaXon has
for a thousand years been the living
exponent of the doctrine that the gov
eminent Is made for the people and
not the people for the government.
The president was equal TO the occa-
sion. He laid aside his strict con
strucuiOn ScruplsS for the time being,
accepted the treaty and summoned
Congress in extra session 10 ratify the
same. The vast territory thus ac-
luired was then practically an I'M
known land north and west Of st.
Louis, and the most extraordinary
stories about IL were circulated among
he people and were gravely discussed
IN congress. Ii was said to be inhab-
ted by Indians Of gigantic stature;
he plains were said to be covered |
With buffalo, and the soil was declared /
% rich Is to preclude the growth OF l
Tees. A Thousand miles up the Mis- 4
.0uri was said 10 be . pure mountain 1
If salt, white and gliJrering in the 4
,un, and $50 miles long by forty-five /
vide.
Tins masterstroke gave Jefferson's |
unbOunded popularity, I
md wei nigh finished the destruction 4
I the old federal party. It's success
$50 seems 10 have made Jefferson "a /
onfTmed auneEaIiOIiSt. Tor ms cor
in later wears Indicates
hat he contemplated, when we were
threatened with yyar with spain. the
Of both Florida and Alex
20.
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