The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-12-01


ident of the new company, was grant,
ed twelve square miles of land on the
Arkansas river. For settlers he sent oy er
hundreds of honest Germans and $50
other immigrants not so honest. Law 8
scheme was the now abandoned paper
money imitation scheme, coupled with the
issuing and prolonged issuing or water
ing of stock or paper promises, without
limit and without end.
S Law escaped te@ Italy, when the CRASH
came, after his carriage had been broken
into pieces by his deluded victims. The
curse of worthless medium of exchange
was followed by a more dreadful draw
back to prosperity, the Natchez Indian
wars, which reached a horrible culmina-
ton in the general massacreS of 1923. The
merciless slaughter of 500 men, women
and children, at the Mississippi, Yazoo,
Washita and other settlements, calls only
for plying sympathy and commseration.
The fiendish atrocities and unspeakable
crueltieS of the Natchez savages are 100
revolving to dwell upon, too awful to re-
late. Tt is not strange that Bienville, the
veteran Indian fighter and Father Of the
Colony after having been twice de-
feated by the same tribe, should be will
ing to retire at sixty-two from the field
of such fruitless toll and inglorious con
fijet. Fort Orleans, whose construction
was begun by BurgmOnt in 1721, was
totally destroyed and its occupants mas
sacred in 1724 This was situated on an
island near the mouth of the Missouri
river. In 1927, the capable Gov. Perier,
began the leYee system by constructing q
levee thirty-six miles in length which IN
Guided New Orleans.
But the method was faulty where there
was so little self-government. Every
hi u
the Mississippi bubble period,the sick
were often without medicines and some
settlers persisted from hunger. Provisions
were secured from France, from Spanish
forts, from the Indians; not in sufficient
quantities from the soil. A change came
in April, 1882, when the John Law monop.
oily ended, by the ling of France pro-
claiming that the Province of Louisiana
was free and open to trade and COM
merce with equal privileges to all MS
subjects. From 1913 to 1853, was COM
.paratively uneventful period of gradual
and peaceful progress. In 1850 the popu-
lation had increased to 1000; 1000 befns
white.
In 1751 the Jesuit missionaries introduce
ed the sugar cane from st. Domingo and
also some blacks who understood the art
of sugar-making. H. Dubreuil built the
first sugar mill on what is now ESpla-
made avenue About 1756 began the ar
rival of the Acadians whom Longfellow
has since immortalized, who were driven
cut of Nova Scotia by arbitrary force.
They settled in the western part of the
present state of Louisiana, and their de-
scendants have made good citizens.
Spanish Professionalism
BY the treaty of Fontainebleau of Nov.
5, 1852, Louis XIV. transferred to Spain
the whole territory of Louisiana lying
west of the Mississippi river including
also New Orleans. On Feb 10, 1853, the
French king agreed at Paris to grant to
Spain alltthis territory lying east of
the Mississippi. except New Orleans. A
dull voluptuary, such as Louis XIV, had
hardly manly sentiment enough to feel
any deep regret over the loss of colo
nists that had not proven profitable and
who required defense. He had in two
years surrendered every foot Of French
territory on the American continent. The
French lacked the Anglo-Saxon instinct
for successful colonization. But now,
when there were signs of a larger pros
perity, these colonists were suddenly
cast off by the parent country. Not I'M
til 1865 was the first Spanish governor,
Ulloa, sent out to assume control Bring
ing out ninety soldiers with him he found
1t prudent, in view Of the state Of feel
ing, to depart hastily for Havana.
After an unusual delay Lieut.. Gen.
O'Reilly took firm and formal possession
of the province as governor and captain
general. He landed on the levee 1000
soldiers-about three times the force that
the colony could command. That a
naughty power like Spain would not per-
nit it's authority to be defed, should
have been anticipated. But O'Reilly's
treacherously base and despotically
cruel course Of action, ended in a piece
of Infamous brutality; in cowardly acts
of needless butchery.
The chief men who had been active in
manifesting their loyalty to France were
lulled into feeling of security by an