The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-11-30

| leans, whose construction was begun
| 10y Hurgmont in l12l. was totally tie
| stroScd aud it's occupants masSacrcd IN
! li2i. This was situated on an island
| near the month of the Missouri river.
| In lI2I The capable Governor Prriicr.
| began the lcvcc system by constructing
| 4 lcvce thirty-siN miles in length which
! Included New orleans. l;ut the method
was faulty where there was 80 little
! sclf-govcrnncn,. Everything was de-
! t"lmincd III France. During the Miss
| issirpi bubble period. the sick were
/ often without medicines and some SCI, =
/ tiers n"rish"d from hunger Provisions
! Wcr" secured from France, from span
! ish forts. from The Indians: not in suiii-
/ "icnt uantities from the soil \ change
( came in April. lT32, when the John Law
7 monopoly ended, by the king Of France
/ proclailuing that the Province of Louis
lana was free and open to trad" ana
commerce with rual privileges 10 all
his subjects. From l133 To lI6t. was Il
/ comparatively mevcntful period OF
| gradual and peaceful progress. IN l,,i',
| the population had increased to 7,Oon:
, 1000 being white.
/ IN Isl. the Jesuit missionaries intro
! duccd tn" sugar cane from st. Domin-
go ana also some blacks who under
stood the art of sugar making. NJ.
Duhreuil built the first sugar mill ON
Mlat IS now ispl;lhad" avenue ABOUT
l''" began the ARRIVAL oi thc NcaHiihS'
N'lo,h i-pllSieiioW mas since immortal
'Hei. VINO were urlNen onl IRON NoN;'
>""li;l DE 'rDilfufE tor'". lh"H S''l!'h
III the western parts of til" present
stat" of Louisiana ana their d"scrnd-
anus nave hlade So0d citiHehS.
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Ry the treaty of l'on,ailIrblcau Of
November .. 1852 Louis NN, trans
r.,rrd to spain the whole territory Of
Louisiana lying west of the Mississippi
river. including also New Orleans ON
! Febrlary 10. 1863. the French king
agreed al Paris to grant to England All
This territory living east Of the MiSsiss-
ipIi except New orleans \ dull vol
uptuuly. such as Louis Ky. had hardly
manly sentiment enough 10 feel any.
deep regret over the loss of colonista
that had not proven profitable and who
required defense He had in two Years
surrendered every foot of French ter
ritory on the American continent. Th"
French lacked the Angiu-SnXon in
Stinct ior successful culoniZution. Eut
now when there were signs ol Il larger
prosperity. these roioniS,S We're sud-
denly cast OFF by a parent country. Not
until 1866. was tho first SPANISH gov
rrnol l'llon. sent out to assume con-
troll. Rlingins ont ninety soldiers with
him h" found it prudent in view of The
state of feeling to tlnpal, hastily for
Havana.
After an unusual delay. Lieutenant
General O'lti.lly took firm and formal
poSssession of the Province as governor
ANA captain general. He landed on The
lcvre 1000 sollirrs--;tbnut three times
the force that The colony could COM
mand. That II naughty power like
spain would not permit its authority
tn he drtied. should have been antici-
patcu. Eut D'Riclly'S ucuchcrouSly
base and dcspotically cruel course or
action. ended in II picc" Of infamous
brutality; in cOWardly acts Of needless
butchory.
Til" chief men who had been active
IN mauiicSting their loyalty to France.
We're lulied into Il feeling oI security by
an outward exhibition of a courteous
and roncilatury temper and by prof
i"rS OF hospitality. No sooner had Vii
l"rc. {: worthy planter, passed in ut the
guarded gate. than he WAS arrested.
forced on board Il Spanish mull-oi-War
ana thcI" bruiuily killed by :: guard
for tn" crime Of insisting upon Spcakinp
/" his @ricf-stricken wife. Lit Ercnierc.
th" eloquent lawyer: Marquis ana j..
N"yant, ranking officers of the colony
troops: Joseph AIilhet and CHyeSse
leading merchants. were r;lilroadcd
through the tlYlv"sty of "a trial; then
led out ana shot in the most public
square. Not alone the kindred of the
doomed men but III" Inhabitants fled
from H." scene and city. paraly2rd with
horror.
SOME of the sin Victims had seen
their srcS butrhclcd in The ghus,ly
masSHcrcs Of the NutchcH s;lvnues:
their children wcr" now asked in turn
10 behold their fathers nut to death hv
II Spanish savug" whose hands were To
be stained by IN unlorgivabl ana in
human arocty. Such crimes are he
y"nd the reach of the chastise,nents of
human ,huugh not OF divine Justice.
Six other prominent men were found
guilty "r Il Discrimination to become
- .inyIn wines, n..r. ,r.,n,m,n,,"n ~
una ANA imprisoned lpr various terms
III IN" dungeons of Moro castle. An i'm
lnediat" chang" III tn" laws ol their
colony was smother cNac'ion which In"
terrified inhabitants had 10 bear, The
spanish l"nsuasc was made the Official
'hnEuag" ANA was used in courts,
schools ana churches. Trade rcSlriG-
lions "F ihe nnn1"WcSt nature were i'm
posed. l'n'rarrlty and III" Marquis lo
la Torf" succeeded III" tyrannlcuI
- tiellN ~ governors. Louisiana was