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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1914-09-01

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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1914-09-01
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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1914-09-01
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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1914-09-01

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-29
A Good Bargain

Jefferson and most of his fellow cft1s zens were filled with amazement at sud- denly finding themselves In possession of a new territory larger than all the rest of the country and greater in extent than France. Great Britain. Germany. Spain. Portugal and Italy combined. There were thrifty folk, however, who still complained that since Maine had been bought from Sir Ferdinand Gorges for S826O and William Penn had bought Pennsylvania for ouiy $25000, Napoleon had got the best of the Louisiana bargain.
 Nevertheless the treasury sent him hio $ll. .2o0,0o0 and stood pledged to settle tho spoliation claims against France to the, amount of $3, 10000. As we view today the states of Arkansas, Oklahoma, Me souri. Iowa, Nebraska, North and South Dakota that have been wholly formed, and the states of Louisiana, Minnooota Kansas, Colorado. Wyoming and Mon. tnna. mostly formed out of the purchased territory the price does not seem un- req sonable. One shearing of the sheep lln those states now would suffice to pay, 1t Besides 1t made the subsequent pur- chase of the Floridas from Spain and, the occupation of oregon, Washingtonl and the far northwest inevitable. while 1t made possible the annexation of Tex-i as. New Mexico. Arizona, California, Ne-l veda, Utah and the adjoining lands. Jef- ferson's purchase in itself still stands a&, the biggest land deal in history and the, greatest territorial conquest ever mado by peaceable means. |
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-29
A Pupil of American Veterans

Still Napoleon probably never could have been more than a captain in the army of France but for the French rev. olution, and that was the offspring of the American revolution. And he owed his first practical lessons in warfare. while a lieutenant, to officers who had fought by the side of Washington. When Count Rochambeau appeared at the Tuileries. the first consul said to that illustdious veteran of the American war of independence, while he pointed to his own famous generals who sur rounded him, behold, sir, your pupils!"
 Many features of the Napoleonic tac- tics were distinctly American in their origin and were carried back to France by French officers. Berthier, chief of staff in all the campaigns from Monte- notte in 1s14 had fought with Lafayette.
 When Napoleon married it was daughter of the new world that he took to his bosom, and when he came to power he boasted an American mod el. At the death of Washington he or dered the standards and flags of F'rahce to be hung with crepe for 10 days and eulogy to be pronounced in the Temple of Mars.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-29
Jefferson's Challenge

Already. however, rnmors of the se- cret plan to retake Louisiana had reached America. President Jefferson and his cabinet, only then entering onice, we're disturbed by the reports. While the Americans out in the valley or the great river were aroused to a wariike spirit of resistance They had despised Spain as the mistress of their waterway, but they dreaded to have the ambitious, conquering Napoleon take her place. Nothing perhaps since the revolution" Jefferson wrote. 'has produced more uneasy sensations"
 The new minister to Paris Robert R. Livingston, was instructed boldly to say to the French government
 There Is on the globe one single spot, the possessor of which is our nat urnal enemy. It is New Orleans The day France takes possession of New Orleans fixes the sentence which Is to restrain her within her low-water mark. It seals the union of two na- tions. who. in conjunction, can main tain exclusive possession of the ocean From that moment We must marry our selves to the British fleet and nation ]"
 To that Hunt announcement Jefferson added the warning that "the first can non which shall be fired in Europe" will be "the signal for tearing up any set tlement' made by France in America. A member of the French ministry said that If any European power had dared to address such language to Napoleon 1t would have been answered with guns. And the standing army of the United States numbered only 5000!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-29

Just as Napoleon reached out to grasp at once an empire in she east and an empire in the west, two mshaps thwart- ed him. His ally, the Czar Paul, was stabbed and strangled to death in his bed at St. Petersburg. Again as at Acre, his dream of Asiatic conquest was thwarted.
 At the same time there rose in the path of Napoleon to the west a black Bonaparte, Toussaint LOuverture a San Domingo slave, who had marshaled the African bondmen of his West In dian island against their French mas ters. San Domingo was the largest and richest possession left to France in the new world, the necessary stepping stone on the way to Louisiana.
 Determined to subdue the black rebel lion there Napoleon sent a great ex- petition under General Lec1erc, the Tou- Ion comrade who had married Pauline Bpnaparte. The insurrection was re- pressed and Toussaint was carried off to die in a mountain fortress of France The way to Louisiana apparently was clear.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-29

the Creeks and other Indian tribes against the bellicose Kentuckians and Tennesseeans. To be sure Victor was admonished not to forget that the French gov ernmen- wishes peace'-but to remember that 'if war takes place. Louisiana will certainly become the theatre of hostilitics.''
 Again Napoleon wrote to Victor: "I have no need to tell you with what impatience the government will wait for news from you in order to settle its ideas in regard to the pretensions of the United States and their unsurpa- tions over the Sraniards. Every time you perceive that the United States are raising pretensiors, answer that no one had any idea of this at Paris, but that you have written and are expect ing orders"
 Just when the situation was at it's most highly inflammable stage Spain dropped a match .n it. The Spanish government. no douh. under French in fluence. suddenly suspended the trad ing privileges of the Americans at New Orleans and closed the river to the settlers in the western states, who, lift ing up their lusty voices for war. made themselves heard ir Washington. An angry deriand aroso for the immediate seizure of New Orleans, and Livingston, seeing little prospect of gaining any concessions in Paris, indorsed resort to force.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-29
Jefferson's Foresipbt

But Jefferson insisted that ''peace Is our passion" and he announced to Con- gress a special mission to France. No other man in the new world understood so well the politics of the old as the then President of the United States and Jefferson, knowing that the newly made peace between England and France could not last long, prepared to profit by the rupture which was cer- tain to come.
 He chose James Monroe to be his special commissioner. gave him $2.000,- 900, and authorized him to tempt Napo- leon with a money offer instructing him to pay as much as $10,000,0 900 if necessary for New Orleans and the gulf coast, that is to say, the coast of Ala bama and Florida, which was then known as the Floridas. If. however. France would not sell, Monroe was to try to have our port privileges re- stored. As for the rest of Louisiana, to the headwaters of the Mississippi, no one cared cent for that wilderness and it was not alluded to.
 Widely scattered events hastened to support Jefferson's foresight with their irresistible logic. Even while the plan was being drawn up at Washington, Napoleon received the news of the death of General Leclerc and the ruin of the French army in San Domingo, where yellow fever had formed a deadly alliance with the negro rebels France could not afford to sacrifice any more men in the conquest of the island and. crying havoc, turned 1900 bloodhounds loose upon the insurgent population.
 All the while London and Paris were making uglier and uglier faces at each against the Louisiana expdeition, which other. The British government protested was still fitting out and which it de- clfned to believe was destined to New Orleans. Napoleon retorted with an ap- peal to the Corps Legtslatif for an
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-29
Napoleon on the United States

This accession of territory ouisiana) strengthens for the of the United States have just given England maritime rival that will later humble her pride. It will be objected that the Americans
 may be found powerful for Europe in two three tuies But my foresight does not embrace such fears. See in the United States how, without eff fort everything prospers how happy and peaceful every thing there. It is in reality the public will and the in terests of all which govern there
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-29
His First Treaty

The earliest treaty he made as first consul was treaty of peace and friend ship with the United States in 1850, which was celebrated with brilliant fetes at Joseph Bonaparte's country estate, Nor tefontaine, near Chantilly, in the suburbs of Paris. At an elaborate banquet of 1s0 covers Napoleon rose to toast 'the names of the French and Americans who died on the field of battle for tho Independence of the new world" It was there and then that he met. Lafayette for the first time. overwhelming the Marquis with questions about svashing- ton and the nation he had founded.
 The Americans would have been dis- tracted from the pleasurss of the fetes at Mortefontaine had tkey known that the conquerer of Italy and Egypt was about to become a near neighbor of theirs In the new world. It was not disclosed to them. therefore, that 3er- thier was even then negotiating in Spain for the transfer of Louisiana to France. Within 24 hours after the signing of the treaty was made with Spain. whereby Napoleon was to become the possessor of more square miles of American soil thaY the United States then held and bs
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-29
Frances Farewell

The last scene in the drama of I0u- isiana was enacted in the Place d'Armes at New Orleans the week before Chrfst. mas in the year 1S03
 For 6O,0oo0o0 francs in hand Napolaon opened the Tchouptoulas gate of tho town. little force of American sol- diers, under General Wilkinson. marched In and drew up before the old Cabildo, which still rises by the Cathedral of St. Louis in the Place d'Armes. now Jackson square. The treaty of cession was read aloud to the people in French and English. whereupon Laussat, tho commissioner, standing on the balcony of the Cabildo, read his credentials from Napoleon Bonaparte first consul of France, and Governor Claiborne of the Mississippi territory read his credentials from Thomas Jefferson, President of the united States. Laussat then surrendered to Claiborne the keys of New Orleans and exchanged chairs with him.
 The red white and blue banner of France. which had noated over New Or leans for only 20 days, was slowly lowered on the flagstaff as the red, white and blue of the American union was hoisted Midway of the pole, both flags paused for a fraternal moment to mingle their folds, while the trumpets sounded and the drums rolled The Stars and Stripes then ascended to the top to receive the salute of the artillerymen and musket- men and the tricolor to the bottom to be reverentiy received fin the arms of 50 I.c uisianans. veterans of the army of France. who had gathered from distant settlements to pay homage to the last banner of the country of Champaign. Mar quette. La Sale and Mvntcalm to wave in sovereignty above a spot of earth on the continent of north America.
 Copyright. 1914 by James Morgan)
 Next Sunday: A day at Malmaison with Napoleon. the man. and Josephine the woman, when the world was young again and fortune was starfinC pau d.o1
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-29

the French shore than on even the next door neighbors of France
 The people of the new world are likely to think of themselves as having been mere lookers-on at the great drama of Napoleon's life with a vast ocean be- tween them and the theatre of his activi- ties. But even the Atlantic was not a broad enough moat to separate them entirely from his fortunes and misfor- tunes.
 The influence of America touched his career at many points. In the first place. he would not have been born under the French flag if Montcalm instead of Wolfe had died victorious on the plains of Abraham, for the loss of her Amer ican possessions was the impelling mo- tive of France to seek some compensa- tion in the conquest of Corsica
 Napoleon was indebted for his educa- tion a soldier to the disasters and de- moralization which had overwhelmed the armies of France in America no less than in Europe. It was to retrieve the prestige of French arms that France opened military schools, Brienne among them, and made them free for the sons of poor noblemen.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-29

army of 500.000 men "to defend and avenge the republic" George III came back at him by calling out the British militia.
 The occupation of Louisiana was abandoned France could not spare g soldier from Europe, and moreover could not send a ship across the ocean while at war; with the mistress of the seas.
 Monroe was not yet on the French shore. when Napoleon said to his minis ters at St. Cloud Tt is necessary to balance England's influence by a mari time power that may one day become her rival; that power Is the United States. I shall be useful to the whole universe, if I can prevent her ruling America as she rules Asia" Meanwhile over in London, Lord Addington was saying to Rufus King, the American minister, "If you can obtain Louisiana. we'll! If not, we ought to prevent it's going into the hands of France"
 A Sunday at St. Cloud
 The next scene in the drama of the Louisiana sale and purchase took place at the palace of St. Cloud. on Easter Sunday. There, while Monroe was driv- ing in a post chaise on the road from Havre to Paris. Napoleon was saving to his minister of the treasury, Barbe ihdTpolS, dHu 10 HIS minister or marine, Decres, both of whom had seen service in America, "I know the full value of Louisiana and I have been desrous of repairing the fault of the French nego- tiator who abandoned 1t. A few lines of treaty have restored It to me, but have scarcely recovered 1t when I must expect to lose it. The Eng fish shall not have the Missis- sippi which they covet The jealousy they feel at the restoration of this colony to the sovereignty of France acquaints me with their wish to take possession of 1t. and 1t is thus that they will begin the war. e.. have not moment to lose in putting 1t out of their reach. think of ced- ing 1t to the United States. |. . If leave the least time to our enemies I shall only transmit an empty title to those republicans whose friendship I seek. They only ask of me one town in Louisiana, but I already consider the colony as entirely lost"
 Marbois. who had been secretary of the French legation to the continental Congress and whose wife was an Amer ican. gave his hearty indorsement. Decres. however. who had served in America under Rochembeau, urged Ma poleon to hold on to Louisiana. arguing that nation could not hope to be rich without colonies, and that there does not exist on the globe single port a single city susceptible of being as iin- portant as New Orleans which. how ever, would be of inestimably greater value, he said, when canal across Panama should be constructed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-29

lived long, but this Is the noblest work of our whole lives" Yet he had once signed another great instrument the Declaration of Independencei As for hio colleague. was not this treaty removing a European power from America. a fitting prelude to another paper with which his name was to be associated. the Monroe doctrine, that warning to the nations that the old world must keep It's hands of the new?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-29
An Uncomfortable Neighbor

But Talleyrand quibb1ed while Liy- ingston threatened and Napoleon went ahead with his preparations for milf : tary expedition to retake Louisiana. General Victor. shining name of the Napoleonic epoch, was placed in com mand of the expedition. The instruc- tions Victor received. reflect Napoleon s purpose to pay an aggressive part in America and disclose what an uncom- fortab1e Leighton he would have been:
 France being master of both banks at the mouth of the Mississippi, holds the key to its navigation. This naviga- ton Is a matter cf the highest i'm portance to the western states of the federal gover nnlert. This is enough to show with what Jealousy the federal government will see us take possession"
 The French, vic.or was told should feel their way cautiously: "A little local experience will soon enable you to discern the sentiments of the western states of the federal government. It will be well to maintain sources of in- formation in that country. whose war like and sober population may present to you redoutahlc enemy" Alliances were recommended with the Choctaws.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-29
This is simple but dramatic story

This is simple but dramatic story of
 How narrowly the United States missed having Napoleon for a next door neighbor and how closely the new world came to being included in his scheme of conquest
 How the saucy little republic of the west, with an army of only 5000 men, braved the conqueror of Europe, and how some assassins in St. Peters burg and black rebels in San Dimingo saved American soil from a military invasion
 How England doomed Napoleon's ambition for a great colony in Amer ica and how three Bonaparte brothers quarreled over Louisiana in a bath room
 How the fate of the great Missis- sippi valley was sealed at daybreak in the Palace of St. Cloud, and how Talleyrand opened the biggest real estate auction in history
 How Thomas Jefferson stared out to buy town and Napoleon thrust an empire upon him; how the greatest territorial conquest ever made by peaceable means was brought about, and how France furled her flag for |.
 DATES AND EVENTs-AGE s1-s4. May 90, 1S00-Treaty of peace with United States at NIortefontaine.
 October 1, 1S00-Spain ceded Louisiana to France in treaty of Il Fefenso. October 1. 1s1l-Freneh expedition to San Domingo under Lecere.
 March &, 1S02-Toussaint rOuverture sur rendered San Domingo to Leclerc.
 April IS 1S02-President Jefferson pro- tested to France against her acquisition of Louisiana. September, lSO2-Victor appointed com mander of French expedition to Louis iana.
 October 15, 1s02-King Of Spain signed treaty of Cesson.
 October 16, 1S02-Spain suspended port privileges of Americans at New Orleans. November ?, 1So2-Death of Leclerc.
 December ?. 1S02-Jefferson proposed to Congress a special commission to France. January 10. 1S0S-James Monroe appoint ed commissioner
 February S. 1S03-Napoleon prepar ring for reopening war with England.
 February 20, 1s03-He suspended the ex- petition to Louisiana.
 March s, 1S03-Monroe sailed from New York.
 March 10, 1SO3-George TIT called out the British militia.
 March F. 1S0s-Napoleon's warlike out burst to the British minister.
 April 10, 1S03-Napoeon discussed the sale with his minister's April H. 1S0S-He ordered Louisiana to be sold.
 April 12, 1S03-Monroe arrived in Paris April 20, 1S03-The price of Louisiana agreed upon between the French and Americans.
 May 2-S 1S03-The treaty signed by the negotiators.
 May 2l, 1So3-Ratifed by Napoleon. War between France and England began
 November 30, 1So3-Spain formally deliv- cred Louisiana to France at New Orleans. December 20, 1S03-France delivered the territory to the United States.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-29
A Dream of Emnire

the master of the greatest river in North Apaeriaa
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-29
Louisiana's Fate Sealed

Far into the night the three men at St. Cloud debated the destiny of Louisiana. the ministers sleeping in the palace in stead of returning to Paris. At day break the fate of Louisiana was sealed. After only brief rest, Marbois was aroused by a messenger from the first consul whom he found up and reading . newly arrived batch of London dis patches.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-29
A Kingdom for Louisiana

From the day France was compelled to lower her flag in the Place dArmes at New Orleans In 17s2. 1t had been the con stant object of French policy under every government to regain Louisiana
 To obtain its return from Spain, Na- poleon offered to make Kingdom out of Tuscany in Italy and set up a throne at Florence for the Duke of Parma and his wife, who was the daughter of a Spanish King.
 The government at Madrid agreed to the bargain, and the next spring the newly made King and Queen of the new Kingdom of Etruria came to Paris to receive the blessings of their creator. It was for the sake of Louisiana, therefore. that Napoleon first tried his prentice hand at making kings.
 Meanwhile his motive in the transac- ton was . mystery. and the world was left Tn ignorance of the price which the re!gninE house of Spain was to pay for it's new crown. Indeed. Godoy. who con- tfolled the Spanish court through the Queen. was opposed to the trade. and 1t was two years before the royal assent actually was given to the cession of Louisiana.