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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 37: (search)
aptious ordinance which made a private monopoly of the traffic with the Indians, uncertainty of jurisdiction and allegiance, agitated the Colony from one end to the other. It was proposed to make of New Orleans a republic, like Amsterdam or Venice; with a legislative body of forty men, and a single executive. The people in the country parishes met together; crowded in a mass into the city; joined those of New Orleans; and formed a numerous assembly, in which - Lafeniere, John Milhet, Joseph Milhet, and the lawyer Chap. XXXVII} 1768. Oct. Doucet were conspicuous. Why, said they, should the two sovereigns form agreements which can have no result but our misery without advantage to either? On the twenty-fifth of October they adopted an Address to the Superior Council, written by Lafreniere and Caresse, rehearsing their griefs, and in their Petition of Rights, they claimed freedom of commerce with the ports of France and America, and the expulsion of Ulloa from the Colony. The Add
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter XLI (search)
ons done under the flag of France and during the prevalence of French laws. But the tribunal was inexorable. The estates of the twelve, who were the richest and most considerable men in the Province, were confiscated in whole or in part for the benefit of the officers employed in the trial; six were sentenced to imprisonment for six, or ten years, or for life; the memory of Villere was declared infamous; the remaining five, Lafreniere, his young son-in-law, Noyau, Caresse, Marquis, and Joseph Milhet, were condemned to be hanged. The citizens of New Orleans entreated time for a petition to Charles the Third; the wives, daughters, and sisters of those who had not shared in the revolution, appealed to O'Reilly for mercy; but without effect. Tradition will have it, that the young and gallant Noyau, newly married, might have escaped; but he refused to fly from the doom of his associates. Gayarre's Louisiana, III. 338, 339. On the twenty-fifth of October, the five martyrs to their