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Updated: May 13, 2025
The influence of Blanc and Raphignac was likely to carry the majority and reject the application of the Floridans. The pertinacious opposition of these men inflamed to anger Moore and Thomas. The matter, to them, was life or death. By some means they must get under the American flag, and they saw the only preventive in these two men.
Warm words were passing between Thomas and Blanc, when suddenly Moore grasped the heated poker the end in the fire being at white heat and calling to Thomas with a stentorian voice, "General Thomas! you take that white-headed French scoundrel, and I'll take blue-nose," and, brandishing his hot poker over his head, he charged, as with the bayonet, pointing the poker at the stomach of Raphignac.
Raphignac was a tall, thin man, with a terribly large bottled nose. At the end it was purple as the grape which had caused it. The question was put, and the proposition was carried, amid shouts of laughter. "Oh!" said Raphignac, as the poker was withdrawn, and Moore with it, "vat a d ole savage is dat Larry Moore!" Thus a part of West Florida became a part of Louisiana.
There were in the Legislature, at the time, two men of strong minds, well cultivated Blanc and Raphignac; they represented the city, were Frenchmen not French Creoles, but natives of la belle France. They led the opposition to the admission of the Florida parishes as part of the State, and their representatives as members of the Legislature.
At that critical moment Raphignac walked to the fireplace, where Moore had remained sitting and listening to Thomas.
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