The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-12-28
HISTORY or THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE IN TEN PApfRS-pApfRW
PERIOD or SPANISH RULE IN LOUISIANA, H84-I789.
lNIlRaEl RELALuNS
DISTURBED RELATIONS Wy7H THf WfSI

: million acres lying between their own
, mountain boundary and the Mississippi.
tn the general government To be thus
! east off by the parent state aroused
Il feeling of unrest and rebellious dis
content. a convention presided over
| by Sewer met at Jonesboro and de-
| Cided to form n government for them-
selves. They properly appealed to con-
| gress for advice as to u suitable consti-
| tuition. North Carolina took alarm and
tnnulled the act of CessiOn. The govern"
| nor of the state commissioned Sewer
| to restore the reign of order and law
which he did with wise discretion and
| perfect good faith. In 1TS5, second
| movement in favor of Independence
became so strong that even Sewer was
carried along with it. The people OF
Holston, numbering in all about $4,000,
sent representatives to Greevile, which
they called their capitol and elected
John Sewer their governor. They pro-
posed to extend their territory to the
bend of the Tennessee and include
about onethird of Kentucky. The re-
cognition asked for them from congress
was not forthcoming. Congress de-
sired the North Carolina cesson re-
ncwed so as to bring the separate ter
ritory under Federal control. The state
declined Sewer held that the state
could not revoke the first act of ces-
sion. An attempt to gain the influence
and support 'of Benjamin Franklin by
naming the proposed state. Franklin,
signally failed Virginia got excited
over these events but congress kept
cool. This trouble and the inability to
enforce two Indian treaties caused
General Washington to utter Il timely
word of wisdom: That experience has
taught us that men will not adopt and
carry into execution measures the
best calculated for their own good,
without the intervention of Il cOercive
power" Meanwhile the Franklin set
tiers were fighting both Indians and
each other. This could not last. In
May. 1857. General Caswel ISSUED a
mild but firm proclamation and Sewers
territorial government of Franklin was
at an end
The ultimatum of Spain had been
brought to Philadelphia in May. 1855.
by Diego de GardoGui, her minister.
1t was that the free navigation of the
lower Mississippi would not be surrend-
cred. Madison expressed the prevail
ing thought when he said: 1--WE must
bear with Spain FOR Il while" Wash
ingtOn showed his usual foresight. when
in June. 1883. he wrote to Marbois:
''rhe emigration to the waters OF the
Mississippi is astonishingly great. aud
chiefly of Il description of people who
are not very subordinate to the law and
constitution of the state they go from.
Whether the prohibition therefore OF
the Spaniards is just or unjust. polite
or imDolitic, ii will he with difficulty
that people of this class can be re-
strained in the enjoyment of natural
advantages The discussion for the
two years in the congress ut Philadei-
phia We're too much along sectional
lines to be edifying or instrctive. The
more judicious did not care for sections.
half sections or quarter sections. But
all at last. including jay. wanted the