The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1846-07-03
NUMBER 80.

no ineaHs eufe tnu' vi eAchbhelbg me pc
culiar civilization which existed in the .ir,e
Of Mon:c,i;na for that which the Spsnafds
gave them, that they have improved tho
condition Of tho masses; they have lost ht.
tie OF the former but lis virtues, and ncqnir.
Cd tto OF the latter but lie vlces. | have
already remarked that, although here are
no poitlca! distinctions amongsl The various
cas,es Of the population Of Mexico. that tho
social distinctions are very marked. At
one Of those large assemblies a, tho Pest.
dents palace, i, is very rare 10 see lady
whose color indicates any impurIly OF the
blood. The same remark 10. TO great
extent, true Of the gentlemen, but there ars
also good many exceptions.
CALIFORNIA.
confess that III taking the ground Which
dad upon the order espeIny our people
from California, that felt some con pune
tious ,lsltings for ! bad been Informed that
q plot had been arranged and was about be-
ing developed by the Ameticans atd Other
foreigners IN that department 10 re oct The
scenes Of Texas. had teen consulted beth.
or IN the event Of n revolution in California.
and iis successful result in n separation fem
Mexico, our government would consen, to
surrender thel, claims 10 Oregon, aud thu,
Oregon and California should constitute al
independent republic. OF course had no
authority 10 answer the question, and |
would not have done so il could.
The inhabitants Of California are for the
most part Indians, large proportion naked
s1vages, who no, only have 10 .ympathics
with Mexico but the most decided uniipa.
thy.
Mexico hos no troops there, and the dis.
tauce Of the department preveulsany being
sent.
/ Captain Suot, who was enc OF Bona.
parties officers, and, believe, IS a Swlss,
has for many years had an establishment
there, and IS tho real sovereign Of the coun.
/ try II any one s, certainly so de fdcio if
not de Jgrs. Tho government Of Mexico
has done none Of those things, such as set
Element, extending her laws, and afording
protection, which alone give to a civilized
people right to the country Of savage
one. IS to all these, the natives OF Cali.
iorula are as much indebted 10 any other
patton as 10 Mexico they only know the
government OF Mexico by the exaciious
aud tf'buto which are levied upon them
1t is literally a waif, and belongs to the frat
occupant Captain Suler has l~o forts in
California, and about two thousand persons,
natives and Europeans, 10 his employment.
all Of them armed and regularly drilled
have 10 doubt that his force would be more
than match for Gny Mexican force which
VII ever be seut against han. He has
once or twice been ordered to deliver up
his forts, and bic Inconic reply has been
" Come and take lheU."
From all the Information which have
received, and have been iuquisiiye upon
the SUI Jrc', | am well satisfied that there
IS not on this continent any country Of the
same extent as little desirable as Oregon,
nor any Ia the world which combines as
many advantages Us California. With the
exception Of the valley of the Willamette,
there IS scarcely any portion of Oregon
which is luhablIabe except for that most
worthless OF ala hunting population
and The valley Of the Willamette is of yery
small extent. Ia the south the only port is
at the Columbia river, and that IL no port
4
ers OF our vessels, has proven. To say
nothing OF other hulb ors in California, that
OF Ban Francisco is capaclous enough for
the navirs Of the world, and its shores arc
covered with enough timber "a species Of
the live oak) 10 build those Layles. II
man were TO ask of God climate he would
ask IIst such on ono as that OF California,
If he bud ever been there. There 10 no
portion OF our western country which pro.
I duces oil the grams as wall, | have been
told by moro than one person on whom
entirely relied, that they had known whole
fields to produce--a quantity SO incredible
that | will not state 1t. The whole face of
the country is covered with The finest oats
growing Wild; sugar, rice aud cotton hnd
there their own coogenal climate. Be.
sides oil these, the richest mines of gold
and silver have been discovered there, and
the pearl fisheries have always ben sources
of the largest profits and more than these,
there are the markets of India and China
with nothing intervening but the calm aud
sormless Pacific ocean.
The distance from the head of nayica.
ton on the Arkansas and Red rivers TO
naviRable point OF the waters of the Gulf
Of California, is not more than five or six
hundred miles let that distance be over
come by railroad, and what a vista is
opened TO the prosperity and power of our
country. | have no doubt that the time
will come when New Orleans will be tho
greatest city in the world. That period
would be inculcuIably fastened by the
measures which have indicated, which
would throw into her lap the vast con-,
merce of China and India. Gree, n,
ain, with that wise and far-sc., ,nr nol;.v
for which she is more rc.oartahia 49,
any other government, has already the
PRACTICAL possessor. Of most Of the mort. rs
the Pacific ocean-New Zealand and Tho
Sandwich Islands. and very soon the socie.
~ lsInnds also. We have commerce in
that ncean Of more than fifty millions nc
dollars, and not single place Of refuge
for our ships.
will not say what is our pol;cv :, -.