"father Clark," Or, the Pioneer Preacher : Sketches And Incidents of Rev. John Clark
"father Clark," Or, the Pioneer Preacher : Sketches And Incidents of Rev. John Clark
Peck John Mason
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In a few years after an important change was made in the government of Upper Louisiana, Digitized by VjOOQ IC 222 EMIGRATION ENCOURAGED. by the appointment of a commandant-general, or governor for that province, and a command- ant, or lieutenant-governor for each district. The commandant-general was Don Carlos Dehault Delassus, and the lieut. governor of St. Louis district was an intelligent French gentleman of liberal principles, M. Zenon Tru- deau. We have given these facts of St. Louis his- ...tory to explain why sq many Americans had settled in the province before Father Clark made his first visit. The attack on St. Louis from Canada, the detection of the meditated invasion by Colonel Clark, and the friendly intercourse between the French citizens of St. Louis and those of Illi- nois, induced the authorities of Louisiana to en- courage the immigration of Americans from the United States to the Upper province. To this intent a movement was made by Don Guardoqui, Spanish minister to the government of the United States at Philadelphia, as early as 1787, when he proposed a plan of emigra- tion from the western settlements to the coun- try from Arkansas to the settlements on the Misssouri.* Instructions were given to the * Judge Martin's History of Louisijiiia) yol.
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