Enlightenment Experiments

Pierre Dupont de Nemours:were expected to exercise jurisdiction over U.S. flag
After arranging the Armistice that ended or settledvessels that might become stranded in their district and
outstanding issues after the Revolutionary War Pierreover the cargos saved from these vessels, served as
Dupont de Nemours came to join the Royals includingdepositories for ships' papers and offered relief to
the Hapsburgs who were living near Jefferson andshipwrecked seamen. With the appointment thus
other esoteric Merovingians in and around Delaware.having no impact on the Federal budget, members of
He and his family became important armamentsCongress appeared to have little reason to oppose
manufacturers and it is reasonable to remember whatother members' candidates or to restrain support for
Eisenhower said in his Military-Industrial Complexcandidates of their own." (6)
speech. Pierre Dupont de Nemours and theSILAS DEANE:
Physiocrats are not really interested in 'the governmentThis is a 'fella' who arranged for all the Masonic
which governs best governs least'. You must try toleaders of Europe to send troops to help the
study the Physiocrats if you are to make sense of theAmerican War for Independence. He worked with
current world economy.Beaumarchais who was a known French monarchist
They are playing both sides of the fence and they arespy (he also wrote the Barber of Seville and other
in a position to get all that governemnt can give thembooks made into operas) and arms supplier.
through the spoils system or cronyism.It is alsoI suggest the arms supplier really was Pierre Dupont
important to know the 'spoils' system in governmentde Nemours who finalized the armistice between
that became the norm under Andrew Jackson wasBritain and the US and then came to America and
already well underway at the time of the Louisianafounded the armaments industries referred to in
Purchase. The level of graft or intrigue may never beEisenhower's speech. Would it be terribly impious of
fully exposed but Ben Franklin and King George had ame to say that these Royals or Masons who were
pleasant conversation around the same time andconducting all this business and getting rich from the
some suggest King George was a financier of bothplans they made were not really interested in
sides as is the wont of the upper echelon as we findEnlightenment. But rather they true interest is in A
huge profits are often assured in wars and enforcingLightenment of the average person's share of the
the collection of debts that ensue. Here is a mostfuture and all the rewards?
interesting aspect of the issue of the Louisiana"1737-89, political leader and diplomat in the American
Purchase which is central to the expansionism of theRevolution, b. Groton, Conn. A lawyer and merchant at
Enlightenment Experiment which is called the UnitedWethersfield, Conn., he was elected (1772) to the state
States. Remember also the occult symbology in theassembly and became a leader in the revolutionary
US symbolism that includes a declaration of a Newcause. He was (1774-76) a delegate to the Continental
World Order (Novus Seclorum Ordre) on the dollar billCongress, which sent (1776) him as diplomatic agent to
and the Third Eye on the Pyramid.France. There Deane worked with Pierre de
"Personal representatives of the President were givenBeaumarchais in securing commercial and military aid
various titles when charged with specific missions.for the colonies, obtaining supplies that were of
President Washington had preferred "commissioner."material help in the Saratoga campaign (1777). He
Later, the title of Special Diplomatic Agent was used.recruited a number of foreign officers, such as the
For example, in 1802, Samuel Pierre Dupont Demarquis de Lafayette, Casimir Pulaski, Baron von
Nemours was sent to Paris "to impress on theSteuben, and Johann De Kalb. Late in 1776, Congress
Government of France the impending dangers shouldsent Benjamin Franklin and Arthur Lee to join Deane.
France keep Louisiana." Such appointments, however,Together they arranged (1778) a commercial and
were always for a single, if sometimes prolonged,military alliance with France. Deane, however, was
mission and purpose.soon recalled by Congress and was faced with
Though not salaried, the positions of consul and viceaccusations of profiteering made against him by Lee.
consul were especially susceptible to political favoritism.Embittered, unable to clear himself, and accused as a
Consular officers were expected to live by the feestraitor after publication of some pessimistic private
collected for the many documents essential for theletters, Deane lived the rest of his life in exile. In 1842
conduct of trade and which they prepared. CongressCongress voted $37,000 to his heirs as restitution and
first set out the schedule of services to be providedcharacterized Lee's audit of Deane's accounts 'a
and the fees to be charged in 1792. Consuls and Vicegross injustice.'
Consuls could receive protests and declarations andBibliography: See C. Isham, ed., The Deane Papers,
give copies of documents duly authenticated, they1774-1790 (5 vol., 1887-91); biography by G. L. Clark
could settle the estates of Americans who died within(1913).
their consular district if the local laws allowed, they