The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1848-04-19

RED thirty OF ioriy males on mules. There
is no natural fall of rains as IN temperate
climates. The place and scene are Aslatis
enormously high mountains, running VI
some TO the heighlh of ten thousand feet
with very narrow valleys at their bases
through which streams sometimes iricklt
along--a garter winds along, through the
thread of which, runs The Rio Grande from
aiar in The Rocky Mountains down to the
latitude of abou, thirty three degrees, some
three or four hundred miles. There these
sixty thousand persons are. In The noun
tains, on the right and the left are steam.
whose natural tendencies would be as lat.
eral streams to flow into the Rio Grande
and in certain seasons Of the year, when
/ the rains have been abundant in the noun.
tains, some of them do actually reach the
Rio Grande, but the greater part OF Them,
always-aad oil Of Them Tor greater part
! OF the year, never reach an outlet to the
sea. They are absorbed in the sandy and
desert plains of the country. There is no
culture, save that which can be obtained
by artificial watering or irrigation. You
can have this along the narrow valley OF
The Rio Grande, in The gorges Of the noun.
tains, where the streams are; but you can.
cannot have il down along the course Of
those streams that lose themselves ia the
sands.
Now, sir, there is no public domain in
New Mexico. There is not foot of land
TO be sold by The government. There is
not an acre that will become ours VIXEN the
country becomes ours-not an acre. But,
more than this, the country is TO-, If peo.
pie, such as they are. There Is not the
least thing 10 il TO invite the settlement Of
our planters or farmers There will 60,
dare say, SPECTATORS, traders, some Of them
adventures. tired Of the good country IN
the valley Of the Mississippi, who desire
10 wander; bit | undertake 10 say there
will not be two hundred farmers or planters
from the United States in New Mexico in
the next fifty years. They cannot live
there. DO you suppose they are going 10
cultivate lands which cannot be made pro.
ductiye 10 The slightest degree without ir.
rigation! The people that are there pro.
duce little and live upon little. believe
the characteristics of our farmers through.
out this country is to produce good deal
and consume a good deal. Again, New
Mexico is not like Texas. | had hoped,
and still hope, tina. Texas is TO be filled up
by population like ourselves-no, by the
Spanish race, not BY poems, not by coarse,
ignorant, vulgar landlords, with tribes of
slaves around them, pTedial and otherwise
Mr.. RUSk. -Wllt the honorable Sena. /,
Tor allow me one word. | did not Ike 10
the Senator hen be was reading
IN account Of the country lying in the val.
ey Of the Nueces. When that country
.emes 10 lie known, i. will be found TO be
10 valuable as any portion OF Texas From /
Hs source to lis mouth, the valley Of The \
Rio Grande will be found the same thing.
| Gid not choose 10 interrupt the honorable /
Senator, 6u. We do not claim il as indemni.
ty, believing il to be our Jus, and equitable
right. 50 far as Mexican population is
concerned, there is a good Zeal Of il nov
in Texas, highly respectable, and amongst
hem those who have Distinguished them.
elyes as patriots, Il en- Of intelligence and
,f worth. These are coming over and set.
Ting in Texas, encouraged b, the prospect
Of peace.
Mr.. WEBSTER. i take what sag
in regard TO the valley Of the Rio Grande,
from the statement Of Major Games. !
am glad that there is par, Of j, fit for the
foo: Of civilized man am glad to hear,
also, that there are some Of the inhabitants
Of New Mexico, who are not so besotted
villa their miserable condition, as not 10
make some effort TO Get out Of the coun.
try, and 10 come into a better.
Sir, would, if had time, call the at.
ten,ion If the Senate 10 very instructive
speech, that was made in the other House
by Mr.. Smith, Of Connecticut. He seems
10 have examined all our authorities, con
versed with all cur travellers correspondent
wilh-af~our agents, His speech contains
all their communications, and commend
il to every man in the L. States, who wish.
es to know what We are about TO acquire
by the acquisition of New Mexico. New
Mexico is secluded, isolated place by
itself-in the middle Of the mountains
FIVE hundred miles, / believe, from Texas.
Mr.. RUSk.-Fiye hundred miles from
the settled portions Of Texas.
Mr. WEBSTER.-Farlher from any
where else II does not belong anyw here
Ii has no belongings about ii. Sir, at thi,
moment, it is absolutely more retired, anC
shut out from communication with the civ
lllzed world, than the Sandwich Islands, o.
: mos, of the islands in the Pacific ocean
1t presses hard On Typee, and the mos
people are infinitely less elevated in mlu,
and condition, than the people Of The Sand
wich Islands less worthy Of our asso
ciltion-far less Fl, to send their Senator
here, than are the lnhabianls Of The Sand
wch Islands--far less worthy are the
than the better classes Of Indians in gu
B ne!ghborhood. Commend me TO the Chez
y okees, the Choctaws--if You please, /
J speak Of the Pawnees, the Blackfeet an
u the Snake Indians, and the FIahcads-
Al T..