The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-09-15
DEPARTMENT OF ARCHIVES
 AND HISTORY OF ALABAMA.
THOMAS M. OWEN, Director.

UT ALADAMA. J OWEN, Director. <s%f%f%NfssessesSseSfSs sesSseSfSst 1 one or another incident of the literature | of it is irresistible to the narrator The ! sectional battle that began with Ply. 7 mouth Rock and Jamestown. brougnl l Winthrop for the one and Sir William l Berkeley for the other. assumed to have | been compromised by the necessity oi | Union on the stipulations Of the Constr | tuition, resumed its fury on successive ts- | sues and pretences begotten of the Lou | isiana Purchase The Constitution lost | and, therefore, the South lost, disastrous Federal Councils over "Lopisiana" Let us examine the record. Our books abound in allegations of the "encroachments of the slave power" The facts are plain When the year 120 closed, there was not a foot of the Louisiana Purchase left 1 to slavery except Arkansas not yet a hostile Congress. the slave States of Lou isiana and Missouri not considered. The sectional victory over slavery had accom- plished these three , gains for the anti within sixteen years after the surrender of New Orleans to Mir. Jefferson's army: O Congress had provided for adding the territory to the northern side of the sec tional division of the country by natural ization laws and public land laws favor able to Immisratio of Europeans, while trade piracy-that branch of trade which had been specifically protected by the Constitution from Congress, and from the States also. in order that the original eauipoise of strength in the Union; @ the only great area of the Louisiana Pur- chase that ever was distinctively favor able to slave labor Ca part from n the State in 1919, surrendered; tS) the Missouri 'compromise, enacted the year after the surrender of Texas, specifically and fur ther surrendered to the anti-slavery and Constitutional side of the issue, all of the immense remainder of the Louisi- ana Purchase.
 Oregon to the Nofth by the Florida Pur- chase treaty of 1919. [See Government Map. 1SsSl
 Texas Recovered.
 There is an incident in the life of Will liam R. King of Alabama. intimately as- the United States and to the Constitu- tional side of the sectional controversy, which Is too often passed over in silence by historians of Alabama.
 MT. King had resigned the office of Sem ator from Alabama to become Minister to France, under President Polk, and Mir. Calhoun had re-appeared in public life, after resigning from the Senate, as
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 MT. Calhoun knew that England, urged forward by the influence of Exeter Hall and the countenance of Victoria's Ger man husband. an abolitionist, had we'll nigh persuaded Louis Philippe to join her in defeating the annexation of Texas to the, United States, so long contemplated and which MT. Polk was then about to consummate. The situation was compli- cated on the hands of the American Sec retary of State. by the threatened war with England over the Oregon boundary.
 Under these circumstances, MT. Cal houn resorted to rare diplomacy with the King of France, who had not long before been refugee in America from Philippe was well enough versed on the race question in the United States to un- derstand readily MT. Calhoun's letter to sra.;a Minister William thii R: King In the prep houn sent for MT. Gliddon of Philadel- phfa, who, as secretary to his father, the archealogist. had studied in Egypt and other parts of Africa. the race question. Besides, the Secretary of State had cor responded for this occasion with the most learned ethnologists. The letter he pre- pared tSa f9 8,I Minister nj , King was to be read convincing the royal master that South ern bondage was not an abnormal condi- uon or the negro race, and that the projected joint occupancy of Texas by England and France, as a base for in- cursions of abolitionists into the South ern states, was fanaticism unworthy of the recognition of his Catholic Majesty. Calhoun sent the letter, under the seal of the American Secretary of State, Min- lster King read it to Louis Philippe and, rom that day forward. France did not interfere with slavery in the South. [Dr. Mott. in Types of Mankind. reporting his eeoeInversation con with MT. Calhoun at Mo- bile, in 1S46.l
 Jefferson's Purposes.
 have not at hand the Formulation builetin or the Twelfth Census, of later date than August 9th. Minnesota is the thus far reported under the head of Population" but that is typical State or or the group. There are eighty-one coun- ty there are sons of foreign-born fathers Numbering 3,026, and sons of native fa- thers' :Seo; in Dakotah County there are sons Of foreign-born fathers, 5.9l0 and ty there are sons of foreign born fathers, 9'44O and of native fathers, 3,I87; in St. Louis County there are sons of foreign born fathers, 17,052 and of native fathers 1882 In the entire State of Minnesota the sons of foreign-born fathers aggre- gate 4l2,275. hut the sons of native Amer ican parents number only 225, ,lOS The whose dominions two-thirds of the fa- tnefs or Minnesota have emiHrated are not engaged in the experimental culture or Jenersontan politics in their countries. Subjects of British sovereigns, who popu. lated New England. and Virginia and the Saronnas, had already evolved from their inner consciousness the Declaration of independence and the Constitution, but subjects of Italy and Hungary Germany and Austria, Russia and Sweden, who nave continuously populated Louisiana, learn first of the original American idea aIter they have become victims of the secuonal party strife in America which dedicates them to the suffrage.
 sincerity of Mir. Jefferson's American statecraft, when We approach his own application of his views to his sudden ana 9d.n im4gsrial per acquisition of territory. To
 Monticello, August F. 18n3.
 The Federalists see in this ac- quisiuon the formation of a new Confed- eracy, embracing all the waters of the Mississippi. on both sides of it. and the ssteparauon or Its eastern waters from us on so many circumstahces which we can- not foresee that l place little reliance on mem. We have seldom seen neighbor T3od rpod produce affection among nations. ] ne reverse Is almost the universal truth. Besides, If 1t should become the interest of those nations (of the Louisiana terri tory) to separate from this, if their han plness should depend on 1t so strongly as to induce them to go through that sso9nvulsion. s9 why should the Atlantic we. their present inhabitants. fake sida n such question? When 1 View the Al antlc states procuring for those on inc | eastern waters of the Mississippi friendly instead of hostile neighbors on its west ern waters, l do not View it as I wo,1Id | an Englishman's procuring blessines for Ihe French nation, with whom he has no relatlons or blood or affection The fu- .ure inhabitants of the Atlantic and @ States will be our sons In fGNf