. The Southern states of North America: a record of journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland . 26 EXIT SPANIARD ENTER A brace oJ old Spanish Governors.—From portraits ownedby Hon. Charles Gayarre, of New Orleans. Salcedo alike have vanished. There have been insurrections on the part ofthe French ; many longings after the old banner; and at last the government of France determines once more to pos-sess the grand territory. Sp
. The Southern states of North America: a record of journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland . 26 EXIT SPANIARD ENTER A brace oJ old Spanish Governors.—From portraits ownedby Hon. Charles Gayarre, of New Orleans. Salcedo alike have vanished. There have been insurrections on the part ofthe French ; many longings after the old banner; and at last the government of France determines once more to pos-sess the grand territory. Spain wellknows that it is useless to oppose thisdecision; is not sorry, withal, to be ridof a colony so difficult to govern, andso near to the quarrelsome Americans,who have many times threatened totake New Orleans by force if any far-ther commercial regulations are madeby Spaniards at the Mississippis the Great has three thingsto gain by the possession of the Ter-ritory : the command of the Gulf; thesupply of the islands owned by France ; and a place of settlement for sur-plus population. So that, at St. Ildefonso, on the morning of October first,1800, a treaty of cession is signed by Spain, its third article reading as fol-lows : His Catholic Majesty promises an
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