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, 1888. 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 dis
patch to Spain's 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: II
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 poit-
ical designs, which he has embraced with
cordiality.' On Jan. l, 1889, 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
a delegate to congress: Nevertheless, as
| he firmly perseN eres in his adherence
to our interests, we have sent him to
the new congress- apparently as ourrep-
I 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, and next,
I should have found myself under the
obligation of swearing to support the
new government, which I am in duty
bound to oppose" Such being minor
part of the dreadfully insinaating and
criminally compromising record of Will
| kinson, how long could such; 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 fortyeigi1t hours
! What would have been done with him
! under the absolute rule of Napoleon T.?
| 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 dismemberment of the republic with
! Aaron Burr, the first of American repro
/ bates. 1t is but just to our authorities
| to say that neither in 1886. when Will
! l1inson became the head of the army, nor
/ in 1906, 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 1884 Norsh Caro-
! lima agreed to cede %, 600 acres lying
between their own mountain boundary