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McCORMICtf MESSENGER. McCORMICK. S. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 24, 1939 eautiful Crocheted Doilies for the Table Pattern 1935 Add that touch of luxury that marks a well-kept home. Crochet a large lace doily for a center- piece—a large and two medium- sized ones for buffet set—three sizes repeated for a luncheon set I The large doily measures 18 inches, the medium one 12 inches and the small 6 inches. Pattern 1935 contains directions for mak ing doilies; illustrations of them and of stitches; materials re quired; photograph of doily. Send 15 cents in coins for this pattern to The Sewing Circle Nee- dlecraft Dept., 82 Eighth Ave., New York. TAKE FOR MALARIA Get Relief From Chills and Fever! Don't put up with terrible Malaria. Don’t endure the wracking rfiiii* and fever. At first sign of the dread disease, take Grove’s Tasteless Chill Tonic. A real Malaria medicine. Made especially for the purpose. Contains tasteless quinidine and iron. 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LEONARDI’S GOLDEN EYE LOTION MAKES WSAK EYES STRONG Sew Large Site with Dropper—SO eemte Worse for the Punishment If punishment reaches not the mind—it hardens the offender.— Locke. AT eooo otso irons RHEUMATISMSgo WATCH Y OU con depend on the special sales the merchants of our town announce in the columns of this paper. They mean money saving to our readers. It always pays to patronize the merchants who advertise. They are not afraid of their mer chandise or their prices. A * THE SPECIAlJ] Recent Change in Louisiana Chief Executives Recalls Some of the Picturesque 'Governors' Who Ruled That Spanish-French-American State The Place d’ Armes where Governor Galvez made his stirring appeal for French volunteers to enlist for serv ice against the British. The buildings shown are (left to right) the Cabildo, the St. Louis cathedral, the Presby tery and the Pontalba apartment. In the foreground is Jackson square and a replica of the famous “rocking horse” statue of “Old Hickory.” By ELMO SCOTT WATSON (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) T HE recent resignation of Gov. Richard W. Leche of Louisiana and the consequent installation of Lieut.-Gov. Earl K. Long in the executive mansion at Baton Rouge, once occupied by his brother, Huey P. Long, have added an other chapter to the colorful, and frequently turbulent, history of the chief executives of the Pelican state. It began while Louisiana was a French colony, it continued under Spanish domination and it characterized the early years, as well as the more recent ones, under the American flag. If the redoubtable “King- fish, ,, when he was governor, ruled Louisiana more like the dictator of a totalitarian country than the duly elected head of an American com monwealth, he was only fol lowing in the footsteps of a predecessor — an Irish ad venturer who, paradoxically, was the “Spanish governor” of Louisiana just 170 years ago. His name was Alexan der O’Reilly. O’Reilly was born in the Em erald Isle in 1725 and at an early age enlisted in the army of Spain. He fought in Italy dur ing the War of the Austrian Suc cession and later served in the armies of France and Austria. Then he returned to the Spanish army and was made commander of a brigade. Next he was sent to Cuba to repair and improve the fortifications of Havana and for his work there he was made inspector-general. He returned to Madrid in 1765, just in time to help thwart a plot against King Charles III and aid in saving the life of that monarch who soon had an opportunity to show his grati tude to the Irishman and reward him accordingly. By the Treaty of Paris of 1762- 63 between France, England and Spain, France was forced to sur render to England not only Can- bda, but also that part of old Louisiana lying east of the Missis sippi, with the exception of the “island of Orleans” in which was included the city of New Orleans, the capital of the colony. Ceded to Spain. The “island of Orleans” and all of Louisiana west of the Mis sissippi was ceded to Spain, osten- sibTy as a free gift from France. In reality, of course, France was giving this country to Spain to keep it from falling into the hands of the English and with the hope, which was later realized, * of getting it back again. Although France thus ceded the principal part of Louisiana to Spain in 1762-63, it was not until March, 1766, that Don Antonio de Ulloa arrived in New Orleans to supersede Aubrey, the French governor. But the inhabitants of Louisiana were not especially happy over the transfer of their country without their consent and the result was a revolution against the new rulers. In Oc tober, 1768, the superior council in New Orleans decreed the ex pulsion of Ulloa, who fled to Havana. When King Charles III of Spain learned of this, he determined to crush the rebels and he picked General O’Reilly for the task. He appointed the Irishman gover nor of Louisiana, gave him an army of 2,600 picked men and a fleet of 24 ships. O’Reilly reached New Orleans on August 18, 1769, and at once issued a proclamation in which he declared that only those who had headed the movement against the Spanish would be punished. All of the leaders, 12 in number, belonged to the nobility but that did not save them. One, already taken into custody, died on a Spanish warship. The others were courtmartialed and found guilty and six of them, including La- freniere, former King’s Attorney- General in Louisiana, and Milhet, the wealthiest merchant in New Orleans, were shot. Next O’Reilly dissolved the old superior council of Louisiana and replaced it with the Spanish su preme council, or cabildo. He also put into practice the arbi trary colonial regulations of Spain and decreed a new “black code” which provided the sever est penalties for all kinds of offenses. For a year the people of Louisi ana suffered under his autocratic rule. Then he was recalled to Spain and in 1775 placed in com mand of an expedition against Algiers which was unsuccessful. But he apparently did not lose the confidence of his monarch for he was subsequently made com mander-general of Andalusia and governor of Cadiz. In 1794, while he was on his way to assume command of the army of the east ern Pyrenees, he died and it is probable that there was no mourning in Louisiana when news of his death reached there. Quite different was the attitude of th,e Louisiana citizens, both French and Spanish, toward the man who became their governor in 1777 and their American con temporaries had a special reason for remembering him gratefully, too. For he helped them win their war for freedom from Eng land. Bernardo de Galvez was his name and he was born of a distinguished and powerful family at Malaga, Spain, in 1756. As a youth Bernardo de Galvez was ambitious to win military glory and did so on his first expe dition. Made colonel of the regi- DON BERNARDO DE GALVEZ ment of Louisiana, he went to the colony in America in 1776 and when Bon Louis Unzaga, who had succeeded O’Reilly as governor, asked to be recalled, Galvez, through his family’s influence, was appointed to that post, al though he was then barely 24 years of age. The young governor promptly restored to the French colonials the right to trade with France, thereby winning their gratitude. His predecessor had followed a policy of “benevolent neutrality” toward the American colonies who were then in revolt against England. Galvez not only contin ued that policy but went farther.' In 1778 the continental Congress sent a Captain Willing to New Or leans to get munitions which the Patriot army so sorely needed and Galvez not only permitted the sale of arms and ammunition to Willing but contributed $70,000 to the American cause. The king of Spain had offered to mediate in the dispute between England and her American col onies and when the offer was spurned, Spain followed the ex ample of France and on May 8, 1779, declared war on the Eng lish. The following July Galvez received permission from his king to seize the British forts in Ala bama, Mississippi and West Florida. Galvez called a meeting of the French inhabitants of New Or- - leans in the historic Place d’ Armes and as a dramatic gesture announced that he would re nounce the governorship if the natives would not support him in his expedition against the Eng lish. Since France had already joined forces with the Americans, since there were in New Orleans many Acadian refugees, who had good reason to hate the English, and since the boyish Spanish gov ernor had endeared himself to the French in many ways, the young men of that city didn’t hesitate long before volunteering to ac company him. Rejecting the suggestion that he wait for reinforcements from Havana, Galvez, with 670 men, Spanish regulars, French Creoles, Acadians and American volun teers under Oliver Pollock, seized the British fort at Manhuac, cap tured Baton Rouge and received the surrender of Natchez. The next year Fort Charlotte at Mo bile fell. In 1781, re-enforced by a fleet and army from Havana, Galvez attacked Pensacola. When the , men-of-war attempted to cross the bar, however, the San Roman ran aground and the commander of the fleet. Commodore Calbo de Irazabel, declined to risk any more of his frigates. A Bold Exploit. Galvez, who realized the im portance of having the fleet to be assured of arms and food on St. Rosa island, his base, resolved to shame the commodore into co operating. He embarked, there fore, on the brig Galveston, com manded by Rosseau, a Creole, and raised his pennant on the brig. Followed by a schooner and two gunboats, he boldly en tered the port and acted with sublj, valor that the main squad ron^ followed the next day and safely crossed the bar. After several months’ siege. Fort George and Fort Red Cliff were taken and the way to the main defenses of Pensacola opened. A terrific bombardment was continued until an explosion made a great breach in the walls. Then a storming party rushed in and compelled the surrender of General Campbell with his garri son of 800 regulars. ' As a reward for Galvez’s bril liant success, the king made him lieutenant-general of Louisiana, the Floridas, East and West, and Cuba. He was also given the roy al permission to place upon his coat of arms a figure of the brig, Galveston, with the motto “Yo Solo” (I Alone). In 1785 he was made viceroy of Mexico to suc ceed his father. He died there in 1786 after having been viceroy for only a year. The name of Don Bernardo de Galvez lives today in the great city or Galveston, Texas, but Americans have other reasons for remembering him. Not only did he provide the patriot army with munitions at a time when they were most needed, but his conquests of the British posts in the Southeast prevented their us ing them as bases of attack on the Americans in the old North west in Georgia and the Carolinas. When the Revolution ended, had England held the Mississippi as well as the St. Lawrence the boundaries of the new nation, as well as its future destiny, might have been far different from what they became. Spain later ceded Louisiana back to France and Napoleon Bonaparte sold it to the United States. England made one more effort to gain a foothold on the Gulf of Mexico when, toward the end of the War of 1812, she landed an army near New Orleans. What happened to it when it attacked Gen. Andrew Jackson’s army on January 8, 1815, is historv. The first American governor of Louisiana, like some of his prede cessors and some of his succes sors, had his troubles. And one of his worst troubles was an in dividual named Jean Lafitte. This first governor was William Charles Cole Claiborne, born in Sussex county, Virginia, in 1775. In 1801 his fellow-Virginian, Presi dent Thomas Jefferson, made him governor of the Territory of Mis sissippi and two years later he was appointed commissioner, with Gen. James Wilkinson, to accept the transfer of the Louisi ana Purchase from the French. He was appointed governor of the province of Louisiana for three years and when it was made a territory in 1804 he resigned con trol of Mississippi Territory to govern the new one. In 1810 Claiborne took posses sion of Baton Rouge and Mobile, which up to that time were still held by the Spanish, despite the fact that the French had sold Louisiana to the United States. Two years later, by an act of congress, Louisiana was made a state and the people of the new State elected Claiborne as their first state governor. And then his troubles began. The source of these troubles were two brothers, Pierre La fitte, and his younger brother, Jean—two Frenchmen who had come to New Orleans by way of the West Indies. At first they acted as agents for a colony of smugglers living in the Bay of Barataria. Then they became their leaders and moved their home from New Orleans to the island, Grand Terre, in the Bay of Barataria. From that time on the record is not entirely clear as to the exact nature of the Lafittes’ ac tivities. Jean Lafitte always in sisted that it was privateering and that they preyed only upon ships carrying enemy flags. But historians are pretty generally agreed that it was piracy and it is as “Lafitte the Pirate” that he has come down in history. The people of New Orleans were inclined to view these ac tivities leniently—they enjoying being able to buy all sorts of goods at a l^wer price than that charged by more ethical vend ers of merchandise than the La fittes. But Governor Claiborne was not inclined to wink at such goings-on within his jurisdiction. So on November 24, 1813, he posted his famous proclamation offering a reward for the cap ture of “Jean Lafitte, pirate.” Two days later Jean Lafitte, clev erly using the same language as the chief executive of the state, posted a proclamation offering a reward of $1,000 for the delivery of Governor Claiborne at Grand Terre! Thereupon New Orleans shook with laughter. But not Governor Claiborne. He saw to it that all of the Baratarians were indicted for pi racy and when Pierre Lafitte was caught in New Orleans, he was held without bail. When he came to trial, however, two famous at torneys whom Jean Lafitte had hired for a fee of $20,000 suc ceeded in getting him acquitted. Soon afterwards, however, pub lic opinion changed and plans were made to wipe out the nest of pirates in the Bay of Barata ria. Pierre Lafitte was again ar rested and this time he was kept in jail. Then came the invasion of the British army, Jean Lafitte’s of fer of his services and those of his men to the American cause, the effort of British officers to enlist the services of the Bara tarians and Jean Lafitte’s clever bit of double-crossing of them. He sent Governor Claiborne news of the British proposition and re newed his offer to serve the Americans. As a result Pierre Lafitte was allowed to escape from jail and the Lafittes and their Baratarians served valor- ously in Jackson’s army which whipped Pakenham’s redcoats at the historic Battle of New Or leans on January 8, 1815. As a result of this patriotic service Jean Lafitte and his followers were legally forgiven by the fed eral government and reinstated to American citizenship. Presumably they were forgiv en by Governor Claiborne, too. At least he was troubled no more by the Lafittes who established a pirate colony near Galveston, Texas, then ruled by the Span ish. In 1816 Governor Claiborne was elected United States sena tor but died in New Orleans on November 23, 1817, before he was able to take office. CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT AGENTS Merchants—Canvassers—New profits: mill ends 4c yd. up; sheeting 3c yard; full size unbleached sheets 30c; quilt scrap bundles 16c;start with $2 sample order; money- back guarantee. Harry Sunshine, Textile Products, 36 Alabama St.. AUanta, Ga. OLD COINS COINS WANTED. Gold, silver, copper. Tell me what you have. L. E. ELLISON, Box 497. Birmingham. Alabama. POULTRY BRED FOR PRODUCTION: Ducks RAISED FOR PROFIT: Chicks SOLD BY QUALITY: Turkeys STARTED CHICKS: Pullets MILFORD HATCHERY Rockdale, IVId. Pikesville P. O. 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