The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-04-02

Mr.. Webster rdiculed the idea of the indemnity which
obtain by the treaty, and boldly declared that
it would not be worth dollar. We published a letter
on Thursday from intelligent officer of the army,
who writes from Santa Fe in January last, and de-
scrbes the territory, and resources and value of New
Mexico, from personal inspection His testimony upses
all the declarations of Mr. Webster in relation to that
territory.
In regard to California we call into court gentleman
whose opinion is held in great by the wing party
and for whose character have sincere respect We
mean Gen. Waddy Thompson, Of South Carolina, who
minister in Mexico in 1871, and, after his return
published his "Recollections of Mexico What does he
say of California eve refer to the extract from his
work, quoted by the Baltimore Republican, Does he
value it at only dollar! Certainly not On the contra
ry he pays the following tribute to the value of the
country:
From all the information have received--and have
been inquisitive upon the subject well satisfied that
there is not on this continent any country OF the
tent as little desirable as Oregon NOR ANY
WHICH COMBINES AS MANY ADVANTAGES AS CALIFORNIA.
"With the exception of the valley of the Willamette,
there is scarcely portion of Oregon which is nhab
able, except for the worthless Of ALA hunting popu-
iaon; and the valley of the Willamette of very small ex
tent In the south the only at the Columbia ver and
that port ALL the loss of the Peacock and other
Of vessels has To say nothing of other harbors
California that of San Francisco is capacous enough for
the navies of the world and its shores covered with
enough tmber-a species of the live oak-to build those
navies. If to ask OF God a climate he would
,sk just such as that Of California if he had
been there. There is portion of western country
which produces all the grains as WELL have been told
by than person, whom entirely reiitd that
hey had known whole fields to produce--a quantity
Incredible, that will it. The whole face of the
country is covered with the finest oats, growing wild,
sugar, rice and cotton and there is their congenia
clip ea,lf the mil IF and
silver have been discovered there and the pearl fisheries
always been of the largest profits and
than these, there the markets Of India and China with
nothing intervening but the calm and stormless Pacific
ocean,"
After specifying other advantages which might
from the acquisition of California, Mr. r. says:
"I will say what policy in regard California
Perhaps is better that it remain in the hands Of weak
power like Mexico, and that all the maritime powers may
the advantage of its ports But thing will say
that WORTH WAR OF TWENTY YEARS to pre-
England acquiring which have the best
believing she desires do, and just good
believing that she will do, if it costs with this
country
Is California, then not worth dollar to us '-partcu-
lary the Bay OF San Francisco for which Mr. Webster
himself would have paid several millions of dollars. The
last suspicious of Mr. Thompson confirmed by add
,ona revelations since he wrote his book Mr. Dix. in
the speech which he recently delivered the California
bill proves from the memoir and documents Of Col FIRE.
mon that if it had not been for his exertons the scheme
of Mcnamara the agent for obtaining enormous grants
of land osensiby for Irish emsrants would have been
carried out Mr. d. showed, by reference to the seathy
movements of Great Britain in the Mosquito country
and in Yucatan. that she anxious to plant her lever
in Central Americato extend her commercial resources
and her political power-to connect the two oceans
through the isthmus of Nicaragua. In further illus
tration of the views, Mr. d. produced the intrigue
of Mcnamara in California, and the benefit which Col
Fremont had rendered by defeating it, and subsequently
smoothing the way for our acquisition of that country