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WASHINGTON. Dec. IL. IS45

WASHINGTON, Lee IL, ISf0.
Purchase Of California Vie,es Of Mr.. Polk and has
Secretary about the Extension, of our Empire
Oregon Question TO be settled on the 10Th degree
Reasons nhy, Political and Social : Omiaous Con-
ditiom Of Great Britaim-Aaempt of the Whigs
10 create an alarm of War-Yast advantages of
CatJorn,a-Stupsndous Results upon our Com
merce IN the Pacific, and the Opening Of Direct
Trade ,cih all Asia-Resuits upon Asia-Anni-
hiiation of British Commerce with China and
British Power in Asa-Democratic Mass Meet
ings an Chind-Real,tles.
Negotiations are going on for the purchase of
California there is no doubt of this, nor is it any
longer problem that we can have it if we wish
The Secretary of State is one OF the most profound
and cautious diplomatists of the times, and before
he goes out OF the Department over which he now
presdes, he will establish fame which any other
man IN The nation might envy. His views reach
beyond Texas-they are not limited by Oregon-and
II is hoped and believed that California itself
will not satisfy the lofty ambition he cherlshes for
the country. In all his diplomacles and negotia-
tons there can be no doubt he fully sustained by
the authority and the sympathles of the President.
| am inclined to think that no two men have ever
lived in this country who have had such grand
views OF the final destiny of our Republic or were
better calculated to aid in its fulflment. They are
sngularly favored by the spirit and tendency Of the
times
FIRST, let us glance at the views they entertain of
the extension of our empire. Oregon, up to the
10th parallel, will be ours by amicabe treaty, and
probably IN very short space IF time. No man
who is possessed of the information one may easily
gain here, can really doubt this; although the
wings will raise all the panic they can about
foreign relations, for the purpose OF throwing upon
the administration all the odium of arrangement
of business, which they hope to follow the apprehen
slons they are trying to excite. They have no other
capital to operate wr.h--no other issue to make.
But this will be weak resource-for so mild and
moderate is the tone of the Message and so wisely
will Mr.. Buchanan conduct our negotiations, they
will themselves be obliged to bear the odum OF all
the alarm of war they manage to spread.
They will only verify the old proverb, courses
like chickens, come home to roost" The entire
object of the wing debatersthus far during the week,
declaration of war. With this object in his eye,
Crittenden laid subtle train of saltpeue" under
Gen. Cass, but the old soldier smet gunpowder and
the mine would not explode. And thus will the
wings blunder on through the session, heapng obi
um where 1t will not stay,, and sending out curses
which will only come home to roost. But without
any lntlmatlon OF the negotiations now said to be
going for the final termination of the Oregon af
fair, no one can doubt that Great Britain will gladly
accept the last proposition OF our government, If he
has any correct idea OF the posture of affairs in that
empire; The wlsest men IN Great Britain, whose
colossal power has been long upheld by the first
intellect of the world all feel that there is a store
house full of trouble for them in the future. Super
fetal men are always cheated by appearances. They
suppose that vast nation cannot undergo revolu
lon-that grand fabric cannot fall. But
think NOT Englishmen themselves. The greatest
men In that empire most danger ahead, and sui
fer the deepest apprehensions. One would suppose
that Americans too might augur something from the
ominous fact that disease among potatoes is enough
to create universal alarm throughout the empire land
cause hot words to be spoken even IN Downing
street. Yes, Great Britain must not talk about CO.
umbla rivertil she can feed her furnishing millions
on ''small potatoes" She will accept Mr.. Buchan-
ans ultimatum--there is not a shadow of doubt
about this-be sure. Oregon, then, Mr.. Polk con-
slders virtually ours, and THE question virtually set
tied. Texas Is annexed, and tomorrow she will be
State in the Union.
westward the star Of empire takes its way"
and California with Its deep rich Wales and magnifi-
cent mountains, its saubrous and balmy air, its vast
guilt and wlnd-bound harbors, Is on its way to follow
in the path of Texas. 1t will cost us fifteen millions
of dollars, but it will be with thousand times
what 1t cost-it will consolidate our power and ex
tend civilization along the shores OF the Pacific
open the Pacific to our commerce-across her calm
illmitable waters ten thousand of our merchantmen
will be wafted-the trade of China and India and
the islands in those eastern seas will flow towards
the east for the first time, and the old passages
around the Capes Horn and Good Hope will be aban
doned and this will wlther the right arm of the COM
merce of England almost in an hour A vast trade
who inhabt the beautiful islands OF the Pacific, who
have been plundered and heathenzed by BRITISH ma
veators The most friendly relations will suDslst be-
tween us and the Chinese emperor, who is the sworn
enemy of the nation that destroys his people with
opium We will substitute for that foul poison our
own tobacco, grown the shores OF the Pacific, and
to the consumption OF 1t, when once introduced into
China, no limits can be assigned. Our whalemen
will swarm in the Pacific and chase the whale into
every sea. In word, we shall In one single gene
ration control the commerce of Asia, with her tour
hundred millions OF people Thus may seem strange
to your stock obbers but did they Think that
while we are separated from Europe by stormy
ocean OF 5000 miles, our continent locks arms with
Asia, Just above Oregon!-thl same Oregon which
Eut,t tor IN thtcn wa rl1lrcf
look at it-and who wants Great Britain to
plant her standard on our northwestern shores,
and send her cannon booming across the Pa
cltic, to sever us from those countless millions,
whom God In the very conformation OF the
EARTH intended should be bound to us as finn
ly as brothers! Great Britain! What business has
she, er planting her lion claws in the pathway of
the divine form of Liberty as she went travelling
through the old world, to plant them on our western
shores, and stop the march OF our empire our CON-
merce, our Repubhcanism It Is our destiny yet to
enllghten ASIA and WHY her liteless governments,
that have been stepped In the barbarism OF ages-to
redeem her uncountess millions. who have been
battled, and conquered, and wronged, and cheated,
and enslaved, and mang!ed, and troden unto the
earth, by the iron heel OF England tor two hundred
years We can do it by the regeneratng power OF
our democracy, for 1t was the growth OF the new
world, and where. Tor the first time since the crea
ton OF man, its pure and holy light is kindled on
half the population OF the globe 1t would not be
strange sight as we have seen, IT the steamers,
starting in the morning across Behring's Straits,
should bring the notice to be transmitted In few
seconds, by telegraph, to New York, of mass meet.
ngs to be held the same evening on the shores OF
Asia
Let the wise smile at all this Hold on to Oregon
and purchase California, in the lite time of single
man it will all be more than a reality. Something
more about this in my next MAcHIAvELI.
WAsHINeroN, Dec. IL, 1915.
Trial OF &. j. M'Nuity.
Before Judge Cracford- Criminal Court, Washington
COUNTY, d. C.-Unifed States c. j. Me Nuiy, late
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