The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-12-29

directly or indirectly to Charles III. of
Spain, so self-convincing, so explanatory
of explanations and so interminable in
length, that the efforts to read them
may have shortened his majesty's life,
which ended in December, 1883. A few
extracts from this depressing cor
respon6ence, found in the Spanish ar
chives, fully justify the structures in
this narrative.
Gov Miro, on Jan. s, 17SS, in a dis
patch to SPANS minister of state, says:
1.-The delivering up of Kentucky unto His
majesty's hands, which is the main OBJ
ject to which Wilkinson has promised
to devote himself entirely, would forever
constitute this province rampant for
the protection of New Spain"
Planters Continue Their Work.
In April Wilkinson writes Miro: 81
beg you to be easy and to be satisfied
that nothing shall deter me from attend
ing exclusively to the object we have
on hand, and | am convinced that the
success of our plan will depend on tie
disposition of the court" On May 10
the plotter introduces to Miro and Ma
varro, my dear and venerable sirs,' his
friend, Maj Isaac Duncan, as "a fit
auxiliary in the execution of our polit-
ical designs, which he has embraced with
cordiality" On Jan. /, 1879, he writes to
Miro that before the new congress can
do anything to Illustrate their schemes
I'VE shall have become too strong to
be subjected by any force which may
be sent against us.
Writing to the Spanish governor Feb.
Ia, 1889, Wilkinson reveals his true col
ors when speaking of Mr.. Brown, a
young man without experience, sent as
delegate to congress: Nevertheless, as
he no 96hprpnPp
to our interests, we have sent him to
the new congress, apparently as eursrep-
reSentatiVe, but in reality as a spy on
the actions of that body. I would my
self have undertaken that charge, but
] did not, for two reasons: First, my
presence was necessary here, ana next,
should have found myself under the
obligation of swearing to support the
new government, which I am in duty
bound to oppose" Such being a minor
part of the dreadfully insinaating and
crin1inally compromising record of Will
kinson, how long could suck a com
forter of his country's enemies have Kept
his head on his shoulders under any
strict government like that of Elizabeth
of England? Possibly forty-eigilt hours.
What would have been done with him
under the absolute rule of Napoleon ]. !?
He would have been promptly tried and
as promptly shot! And Yet this brine
giver and bribe-receiver, who was twice
court martialed, was spared to plot again
the ACKNOWLEDGMENT of the republic with
Aaron Burr, the first of American repro
bates. 1t is but just to our authorities
to say that neither in 1876. when Will
| kinson became the head of the army, nor
in 1896, when he escaped punishment Tor
treason with Burr, was there Scln-
tilla of the evidence known to the Off
GERS of the law that has been since re-
covered from the archives of Spain.
John SEWER.
1t is more difficult to reach a just con-
| clusion concerning the course of action
! of that hardest frontiersman, john Sc
! vier. He had fought bravely and worked
! laboriously to settle the Watauga re-
/ gion, between the Cumberland and Al
legheny mountains. In 1854 Norsh Caro-
| lima agreed to cede %, eco, 600 acres lxtI g
! between their own mountain boundary