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Excerpt from Eight Days in New-Orleans in February, 1847
A few years after this period, a body of Jesuit priests and nuns arriving from France, gave a new impetus to the town. They made a most fortunate location, and their property greatly augmented in value But these pious adventurers were also to be disturbed. 'the Pope of Rome not only expelled that sect from Europe, but pursued them in American exile. Their property in New Orleans, va riously estimated to be worth now, from fifteen to thirty millions, was then confiscated and sold for one hundred and eighty thousand dollars. These unfortunate people still further had to satisfy the tyrannical decree to the full measure, by leaving Louisiana! Fifty-one years elapsed fi'om the settlement of Orleans until it was visited by that dreadful disease, the yellow fever, and we may as cribe that affiiction, as we may do many other entailed evils, to the English. They introduced it by importing to Louisiana a cargo of slaves; and now these philanthropists would be willing to see our nation exterminated, and our throats cut, because we are pursuing a system of mild domestic slavery, when they imposed it upon us in the most heartless and aggravated form, by kidnapping and robbery! But I am digressing.
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