The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-03-09

delayed, about which Livingston writes:
Mr.. Monroe having been compelled,
when here Q79D to be we'll with the party
then uppermoSt, and who are now de-
tested by the present ruler, it will be
some time before they know how to esti-
mate his worth, and Talleyrand has, I
find, imbibed personal prejudice against
him that will induce him to throw every
possible obstruction in his way that he
can, consistently with their own views"
Napoleon went off to Flanders and left
negotiations at a StandStill until our
ministers wisely agreed to his own favor
able terms. The first announcement Of
the grand contamination was sent to
Rufus King, In L9ndOn, in these words
I'VE have the honor to inform you that
treaty (the Goth ApriD has been sign
ed between the minister plenipotentiary
of the French government and ourselves
by which the United States has OBJ
tanned the full right to and sovereignty
in and over New Orleans, and the whole
of Louisiana, as Spain possessed the
same
On the 18th of May Livingston for
wards to Washington by "a special and
safe messenger Hughes-The great
treaty, accompanied by other papers and
two lengthy dispatches, the second of
which is signed like the treaty, by both
American ministers. We can extract but
sparingly and only from what is of gem
eral interest. Livingston writes to Mad
ison: Among the most favorite projects
of the first consul, was the colonization
Of Louisiana. He saw in it new Egypt !;
he saw in it a colony that was to coun-
terbalance the eastern establishment of
Britain; he saw in it a provision for his
generals, and what was more Important
on the then state of things, he saw
in it a pretense for the ostracism of sus-
pected enemies. To render the acquisi-
ton still more agreeable to the people,
exaggerated accounts of it's fertility, etc.
were sold in every print shop" The her
culean 1abors and ceasetess tolls of Liv-
ingston to force and keep the dark and
ominous side of the picture before lie un-
suspecting eyes of Bonaparte, can never
in their all-embracing comprehensiveness
be set forth. He personally saw and del
uged with written arguments, which he
called memoirs, every person with any
influence from Napoleon down; his vigi-
lance was almost literally sleeplessness
until the acute stage and critical crisis
were unalterably passed; and as a proof
of his far-seeing craftsmanship, he even
then clearly saw that next to the nego-
tiation that secured our independence,
this is the most important the United
States has ever entered into" In the
great peace treaty of 1928 he was sec
ond only to Franklin in the value and
extent Of his services. When this Illus
triOus man next appears on the broad
world scene, he frames a treaty that
doubles the area of his country, without
one line of instructions from this side of
the Atlantic. The president and secre-
tary of state never extended their vision
beyond the Mississippi to it's boundless
west side. Not dollar of the two mill
ions they asked from congress was to
be expended on the S de of the great
Northwest which grew to be the pest
end Of the republic. The administration
knew not what was going on in Europe.
Livingston OWNED everything that was
going on and made things move on his
own chosen way. The soldier whose fame
subsequently filed the world, was now
but thirty-four; was without experience
in craftsmanship or diplomacy and hand
icapped by events, could hardly be ex-
pected to cope with veteran in both
these fields, now in the ripe maturity Of
his powers, with the honors and laurels
of former triumphs giving power to his
brain and dignity to his brow. In the
battle of the Mississippi the conuueror of
Italy met with his first defeat
James Q. Howard.