For years the desolating Florida war has continued.  Our most experienced generals and our best-appointed armies have been unsuccessful in its prosecution.

The forest must be subdued before the enemy can be finally conquered.

 

Enormous growth takes place under the armed occupation policy of the U. S. government.  Florida’s first constitution is adopted at the newly formed panhandle town of St. Joseph.

 

Among the final events reported on by the venerable newspaper are the death of Andrew Jackson, the rejection of the Wilmot Proviso by Florida, and the death of Major General Edmund Pendleton Gaines, who was involved in the Seminole Wars from the very beginning.