| Pierre Dupont de Nemours: | | | | were expected to exercise jurisdiction over U.S. flag |
| After arranging the Armistice that ended or settled | | | | vessels that might become stranded in their district and |
| outstanding issues after the Revolutionary War Pierre | | | | over the cargos saved from these vessels, served as |
| Dupont de Nemours came to join the Royals including | | | | depositories for ships' papers and offered relief to |
| the Hapsburgs who were living near Jefferson and | | | | shipwrecked 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 armaments | | | | Congress appeared to have little reason to oppose |
| manufacturers and it is reasonable to remember what | | | | other members' candidates or to restrain support for |
| Eisenhower said in his Military-Industrial Complex | | | | candidates of their own." (6) |
| speech. Pierre Dupont de Nemours and the | | | | SILAS DEANE: |
| Physiocrats are not really interested in 'the government | | | | This is a 'fella' who arranged for all the Masonic |
| which governs best governs least'. You must try to | | | | leaders of Europe to send troops to help the |
| study the Physiocrats if you are to make sense of the | | | | American 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 are | | | | spy (he also wrote the Barber of Seville and other |
| in a position to get all that governemnt can give them | | | | books made into operas) and arms supplier. |
| through the spoils system or cronyism.It is also | | | | I suggest the arms supplier really was Pierre Dupont |
| important to know the 'spoils' system in government | | | | de Nemours who finalized the armistice between |
| that became the norm under Andrew Jackson was | | | | Britain and the US and then came to America and |
| already well underway at the time of the Louisiana | | | | founded the armaments industries referred to in |
| Purchase. The level of graft or intrigue may never be | | | | Eisenhower's speech. Would it be terribly impious of |
| fully exposed but Ben Franklin and King George had a | | | | me to say that these Royals or Masons who were |
| pleasant conversation around the same time and | | | | conducting all this business and getting rich from the |
| some suggest King George was a financier of both | | | | plans they made were not really interested in |
| sides as is the wont of the upper echelon as we find | | | | Enlightenment. But rather they true interest is in A |
| huge profits are often assured in wars and enforcing | | | | Lightenment of the average person's share of the |
| the collection of debts that ensue. Here is a most | | | | future 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 the | | | | Revolution, b. Groton, Conn. A lawyer and merchant at |
| Enlightenment Experiment which is called the United | | | | Wethersfield, Conn., he was elected (1772) to the state |
| States. Remember also the occult symbology in the | | | | assembly and became a leader in the revolutionary |
| US symbolism that includes a declaration of a New | | | | cause. He was (1774-76) a delegate to the Continental |
| World Order (Novus Seclorum Ordre) on the dollar bill | | | | Congress, 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 given | | | | Beaumarchais 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 De | | | | marquis de Lafayette, Casimir Pulaski, Baron von |
| Nemours was sent to Paris "to impress on the | | | | Steuben, and Johann De Kalb. Late in 1776, Congress |
| Government of France the impending dangers should | | | | sent 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 vice | | | | accusations 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 fees | | | | traitor after publication of some pessimistic private |
| collected for the many documents essential for the | | | | letters, Deane lived the rest of his life in exile. In 1842 |
| conduct of trade and which they prepared. Congress | | | | Congress voted $37,000 to his heirs as restitution and |
| first set out the schedule of services to be provided | | | | characterized Lee's audit of Deane's accounts 'a |
| and the fees to be charged in 1792. Consuls and Vice | | | | gross injustice.' |
| Consuls could receive protests and declarations and | | | | Bibliography: See C. Isham, ed., The Deane Papers, |
| give copies of documents duly authenticated, they | | | | 1774-1790 (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 | | | | |