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Identifier: historyoflouisia03fortuoft (find matches)
Title: A history of Louisiana
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Fortier, Alcée, 1856-1914
Subjects: Louisiana -- History
Publisher: New York : Goupil & co. of Paris, Manzi, Joyant & co., successors
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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ountry. These were not idle words, aswas proved a few years later by the gallant behavior ofthe Louisianians when they united their efforts with thoseof men from other parts of the country to repel a foreigninvasion. The Legislature elected Julien Poydras a delegate toCongress, to succeed Daniel Clark. It adopted also amemorial to Congress to ask for admission of the Terri-tory into the Union. Claiborne was not of opinion thatthe time had yet come for such a step, and said so in aletter to the Secretary of State. The invasion of Spain by Napoleon produced an unex-pected effect on Louisiana in 1809. At the time of therevolt of the negroes in Santo Domingo a considerablenumber of the white inhabitants had gone to Cuba, withsome slaves, and free persons of color had also accom-panied them. The irritation against the French in Cubaon account of Napoleons treatment of the Spanish royalfamily was such that the immigrants from Santo Do-mingo found life unbearable in Cuba. It was natural that
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1809) IMMIGRANTS 61 they should look to Louisiana for a refuge. The popula-tion of New Orleans was principally of French origin,and the hospitality of the Creoles was well known. Alarge number of immigrants arrived in the city be-tween the 19th of May and the 18th of July, 1809:fifty-seven hundred and ninety-seven individuals, ofwhom eighteen hundred and twenty-eight were white,nineteen hundred and seventy-eight free blacks or coloredpersons, and nineteen hundred and ninety-one slaves.There was opposition to the immigrants from a portionof the population, the native Americans, and the governorfelt embarrassed, in his application of the laws, about ad-mitting slave and free colored persons in the Territory.Considering the unfortunate circumstances of the refu-gees, the laws were not strictly enforced, and they werepermitted to reside in the Territory. General Wilkinson, commander-in-chief of the Ameri-can army, who had been acquitted in June, 1808, by acourt of inquiry, arrived in New

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