﻿HISTORICAL 
  OUTLINE. 
  95 
  

  

  support 
  of 
  his 
  majesty 
  to 
  the 
  rights 
  of 
  the 
  inhabitants 
  

   in 
  their 
  real 
  property, 
  and 
  protection 
  from 
  distress 
  on 
  

   account 
  of 
  their 
  depending 
  debts. 
  Assurances 
  were 
  

   given 
  that 
  although 
  the 
  established 
  Catholic 
  religion 
  only 
  

   could 
  be 
  publicly 
  allowed, 
  yet 
  none 
  should 
  be 
  molested 
  

   on 
  account 
  of 
  their 
  religious 
  principles, 
  or 
  hindered 
  in 
  its 
  

   private 
  exercise. 
  And 
  finally, 
  the 
  inhabitants 
  were 
  ad- 
  

   monished 
  not 
  to 
  deviate 
  from 
  the 
  principles 
  of 
  adhesion 
  

   to 
  the 
  government, 
  until 
  the 
  negotiations 
  noiu 
  on 
  foot 
  

   between 
  the 
  United 
  States 
  and 
  Spain 
  were 
  concluded, 
  

   and 
  thereby 
  the 
  real 
  property 
  of 
  the 
  inhabitants 
  secured. 
  

  

  This 
  proclamation, 
  although 
  artfully 
  conceived 
  by 
  the 
  

   governor, 
  and 
  calculated 
  to 
  attach 
  two 
  large 
  classes 
  of 
  

   the 
  community 
  to 
  his 
  interests 
  (the 
  landholders 
  and 
  

   the 
  debtors), 
  yet 
  failed 
  fully 
  to 
  quiet 
  the 
  minds 
  of 
  the 
  

   people. 
  The 
  fact, 
  now 
  distinctly 
  announced, 
  that 
  the 
  

   evacuation 
  of 
  the 
  country 
  was 
  indefinitely 
  postponed, 
  or 
  

   at 
  least 
  during 
  the 
  pending 
  negotiations, 
  produced 
  much 
  

   irritation. 
  

  

  To 
  counteract 
  this 
  efiect, 
  when 
  the 
  governor 
  became 
  

   aware 
  of 
  it, 
  he 
  caused 
  Ellicott 
  to 
  be 
  informed 
  that 
  he 
  

   had 
  received 
  orders 
  from 
  the 
  Baron 
  de 
  Carondelet 
  to 
  

   have 
  the 
  artillery 
  and 
  stores 
  removed 
  from 
  the 
  forts, 
  

   which 
  were 
  to 
  be 
  given 
  up 
  to 
  the 
  American 
  troops 
  on 
  

   their 
  arrival. 
  

  

  Under 
  this 
  excitement, 
  a 
  number 
  of 
  respectable 
  inhabi- 
  

   tants 
  called 
  upon 
  Ellicott, 
  and 
  presented 
  an 
  address, 
  

   drawn 
  up, 
  it 
  was 
  said, 
  by 
  Narsworthy 
  Hunter, 
  after- 
  

   wards 
  the- 
  delegate 
  to 
  Congress. 
  In 
  style, 
  this 
  address 
  

   was 
  inflated, 
  and 
  it 
  must 
  be 
  confessed 
  the 
  enumeration 
  

   of 
  grievances 
  exaggerated. 
  It 
  ended 
  by 
  calling 
  upon 
  

   Ellicott, 
  " 
  in 
  the 
  name 
  of 
  every 
  friend 
  of 
  that 
  emblem 
  of 
  

   peace 
  and 
  science 
  (the 
  American 
  flag 
  ?) 
  which 
  had 
  been 
  

   recently 
  displayed 
  to 
  them, 
  to 
  stand 
  forth 
  with 
  a 
  confi- 
  

  

  