Sugar Planters & Manufactures in 1842: Ascension Parish, Louisiana Submitted by: Gaytha Carver Thompson ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ************************************************ ************************************************ TIPS FOR SEARCHING RECORDS ON THE INTERNET Netscape & Ms Explorer users: If searching for a particular surname, locality or date while going through the records in the archives or anywhere....try these few steps: 1. Go to the top of the report you are searching. 2. Click on EDIT at the top of your screen. 3. Next click on FIND in the edit menu. 4. When the square pops up, enter what you are looking for in the FIND WHAT ___________blank. 5. Click on DIRECTION __DOWN. 6. And last click on FIND NEXT and continue to click on FIND NEXT until you reach the end of the report. This should highlight the item that you indicated in "find what" every place it appears in the report. You must continue to click on FIND NEXT till you reach the end of the report to see all of the locations of the item indicated. Source: Louisiana State Courier October 1984 Compiled by Annette Carpenter Womack, editor Typed by: Gaytha Carver Thompson 27th Congress 2nd Session SENATE MEMORIAL of A NUMBER OF PLANTERS AND SUGAR MANUFACTURES IN THE STATE OF LOUISIANA, PRAYING An increase of the duties on imported sugar. JUNE 23, 1842 Referred to the Committee on Printing, JUNE 24, 1842 Ordered to be printed To the honorable the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States in Congress assembled: The undersigned, planters and sugar manufactures of the State of Louisiana, beg respectfully to state: That it is only after losses have reached their height, that events have proved that, under the practical operation of the compromise bill our agriculture and our commerce, as well as our manufacturing interest are not only paralyzed, but brought to the very verge of absolute ruin. That they approach the representatives of the nation, in Congress assembled, earnestly to pray them to come to the relief of an industry involving an outlay of capital of $52,000,000, the destruction of which, be causing a national loss to an extent beyond calculation, would lead to expropriation of almost every planter connected with it. That against the theories, discarding discriminating duties intended to foster home labor, which have brought every department of our Government into disrepute which have made, with few exceptions, every mechanic, every manufacture, very merchant, every farmer, every corporation, in our once happy Union, a bankrupt and which at length, after long struggle, are shaking our Government itself to its very foundation the undersigned beg most respectfully to oppose the authority of one our ablest and most honored statesmen. In 1785, Thomas Jefferson was one of the most ardent and strenuous advocates of free trade; his opinions, in 1816, were as follows (Niles Register, vol. 10; page 25 letter to Benjamin Austin) Compare the present state of things with that of '85, and say whether an opinion, founded in the circumstances of that day, can be fairly applied to those present. We have experienced what we then did not believe, that there exist both profligacy and power to exclude us from the field of interchange with other nations; that to be independent for the comforts of life we must fabricate them ourselves. We must now place the manufacturer by the side of the agriculturist. The former question is nothing short of three cents duty on raw sugars, and other qualities in proportion, can avert the calamity about visiting every sugar planter of Louisiana, and to add that, even setting aside all other considerations, the sugar interest having grown under the revenue tariff of 1816, and under that tariff millions and millions of dollars having been permanently invested in works which can not be destroyed without the most ruinous consequences to the parties who have embarked their fortunes in the, it is but sheer justice to them that the same duty of 1816 should be continued so long as a revenue is required to carry on the Government, and it is derived from the same source. All which is respectfully submitted. Parish of Ascension W. C. Randall J. N. Brand James Waters A. G. Rightor D. Arvoingue A. Duyas Vilior Dugas Edmond McIancase John B. Eutch V. D. L. Blanc, by proxy P. T. Lemory David Israel J. K. Gandet E. J. Albert T. B. Letorey Valery Landry J. Paysand Seen Dominique Baptiste Marchand William Watkinson V. T. C. Poursim, by proxy Artemise Pidesclaux, by proxy Gabriel Winter William A. Sims Edmond Bujol A. M. Templet F. Austin Blanchard H. Treille Edward Langford Colin Babin Edward Babin D. A. Barry Pascal Lambert Emile Buguoi James Youngblood M. D. Bringier Duncan H. Kenner Thomas Coltman M. G. Bringier H. B. Trist B. C. Colomb H. O. Colomb Emile Tureand L. Colomb V. Saver G. G. Kittridge N. Landry Joseph Leclome J. Valentin Landry Adolphe Givis Butler Gilbert W. S. Braud J. Aristide Landry Henry McCall R. McCall Andrew McCollam John V. Cresap H. B. Harpe S. & R. tillostsin Henry Doyal, by proxy William Minor, by proxy Thomas Minor, by proxy E. Gauden R. W. Boyd R. M. Nicholls W. R. Boote E. Duffety V. cherbonnier N. Augustin Edward Duffety T. Landry R. Archibald H. McGaw A. M. Lathrop J. Aycock J. R. Verret John B. C. Gazzo, M. D. John T. Rockwood T. Cochhe Joseph Semple John Laruie Alexander Fraser Royal Richardson Samuel F. Hillman S. W. Shior Z. B. Darce M. Levron Joseph Chandler L. Barras C. B. Deour J. Schill W. C. Watkins L. L. Barras E. Porche P. H. Darde H. Arsenaux Lemuel Tanner J. N. Tanner Gracien Le Blanc Charles Dupuy John Daygrass E. Briley R. G. Ellis C. Rookwood H. Verret J. C. Whitaker W. F. Robertson H. Wright Henry C. Thibodaux Bannon G. Thibodaux Mateorin Daigle H. bourgeois J. Batry J. B. Naquin Sciotha S. Evans F. L. Mead C. Bergeron G G. Brown Marcellus Coisin William R. P. Vance Charcel Damisbabein Z. L. Heber Z. Heber F. Gotreau V. Silvie E. Heber R. Bergeron S. M. Narcice Z. B. Guedri W. Leich T. Buque T. Bronsar L. B. Thibodaux N. arcenaux E. P. Arcein J. Garrett F. Roderi W. S. Campbell A. Pichoff M. Dupre F. boudreaux J. Landry J. Bergeson N. Lirette P. Foret Jean Lirette J. M. Lebouf Z. Leblanc F. Lebeufe A. Vazuesph Z. Vazuesph Z. Bergeron John thorn Z. Cheison Z. Chatonier B. W. Roberts Robert Heicklin Z. Z. Lebeufe E. Babien P. Daigle Z. V. Leblanc T. T. Darcy Joseph T. Babin S.M. Darce R. Bourgois Z. R. bourgois E. Savoir C. Landry H. Chatanier L. K. Clifton Joseph Meeker Valery Hebert C. Clement Louis Pihbry John Dutton John P. R. Stone R. Dupuy E. M. E. Mille W. E. Edwards Paul Dupuy Michel Slatry J. L. Dardenne Aubry Dupuy William Dodd Hynes & Crayhead