The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-12-06


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vsrnmsnt has ha nod It ~ oa popu.s, go
ncIlary IN the conduct Of war carried on in an enc
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and shsd Int little Iight On mi, mh;.t NV, th @
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wI .a 49, tSt w an onor e'ie peace,
uoSVns 81 ~ .na. popular rsprsentatiye
40 1911 "a w sny emergency WHICH ID hkey
W ME III sne AnsiIs Va na1on,
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It is that without cost to the or danger
our noettes We nave IN me oosom Oh our society OF
tu $500. Ssoo ~ Js LII 1,,; I".es 80 r wa, w.
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nu. our t aos' no. aotI
on IAna. Inc navy ls an lmportant arm OF Tue ma
oeis ~ Sne services o ING navy were nos ~
h ~ wac oecause tney naa no enemy 20 NEE. on
70 uw Senens. "n.ie Ine army hsu oppor'un.y
o, pSrOamng more conspicuous service .ne psvy
e,soiy ~ 'he oonuuS' VI tne "ar DUN
nranches OF the service performed ther whoe duty 20
sne FOR tne abe ana gaiant services o, tne
oiieers and me- OF the navy acting independently as
well as In Co operation with eur the con,
We. "a TUG Caiol n,as, .ne Oh era Lruh, anu
tNn seizure re- ana OF otneT POSI-
LIONS on tue Hun anu racnc coasts tne ngnest praise
,s ute neir vsliance energy and ski rendered Ihe
most elective service In excluding munitions OF war
ior aouhaane supplies Tor our own army;
~ "a voherce wa auu
Indebted to the nav.
sn paise 10 uue 20 .he ocers Oh Inc severai eAecu
tbs ,orro q. % WIN
sne eeIvlce, al unoer cpe immeoste orection OF Tue
Secretary OF the navy lor me INDUSTRY foresight ana
energy Twin winch everything was directed and
TO give eicsncy TO that brancn OF the SER
vice The same vigilance existed in directing the
operations Of the navy, as OF the army. There was
concert Of action and of between the heads Of
the two arms OF the service. By the orders which
were from time TO time vessels OF war on the
ts and Mu
with the army by this means their combined power
was orought 20 bear successfully on the enemy.
brought 10 ight by this war, Will be OF immsasurabe
in theuure progress of our country They
son: and to enable us to pursue unnterruptediy our
cherished policy of peace with all nations, enangling
aS noEnv with nons % mora nos.on
among nations than at any former period, our duties
and our responsibilities to ourselves and to posterty
are correfpondingly increased This will be the more
obvious when we consider the vast additions which
have been recently made to our territorial possessions
and their great Importance and value.
Within less than four years the annexation OF Texas
to the Union has been communicated all conflict ng
title the Oregon Territory routh Of the forty ninth
degree Of north latitude being all that insisted on
by any OF my predecessors, has been adjusted; and
New Mexico and Upper California have been acquired
cordng to report carefully prepared by the Commits.
sioner of tho General Land Office from the most au.
herewith transmitted, contains million ono hun.
dred and ninety-three thou'and and sixty-one
"n
acres; while the area Of the remaining twenty. nine
States and the territory not yet organized into States
east Of the Rocky Mountains contains two million,
fifty nine thousand Ave hundred n thirteen square
miles, OF thirteen hundred and eighteen million one
hundred and twenty six thousand and fifty. eight
acres These estimates show that the territories re-
csnty acquired, ana over which our exclusive Jurs-
sS as
vas held BY the United States before their acquisition
II Oregon be sxcladed from the estimate there viii
still! remain within the limits OF Texas, New Mexico
and California eight hundred and fftyone thousand
hve hundred and ninety eight square miles, or five
hundred and twenty acres; being an addition equal
10 more than oDe-third OF oil the territory owned
6y ,ne un6ea states neiore tns,r acquisit,on ana,
including oregon, nearly as great an extent OF
territory as the whole OF Europe, Russia only
excepted. Ihe MISSISSIPPI, so lately the IRON
the addition of the late acquisitions, the United
states are now Gs'mstea 20 % neary as large as tne
whole Of Europe 1t estimated by the superintendent
of the coast survey in the accompaI yng report, that
sne extent OF the seacoast OF Iexas on the Gun OF
M 10 u ,our o. tne coa,.
OF upper California on the racine, OF nine hundred
ana seventy miles ana OF oregon, including the
Straits OF Fuca OF ak hundred and tfty miles making
rand SIX hundred and twenty miles, and the whole
extent on botn the racine ana the Gun OF Mexico
coast on the Atlantic from the northern limits Of the
United States around the Capes OF Fior'as TO the ga
pine On the eastern boundary OF Texas Is estimated
20 az tniee tnou.aao QUE sunoreu mles so tnss ene
adotion OF eeacoast lncudlng oregon Is very nearly
Two .hrae az sreas as AL we Possessed psore ana e4
S,uuns oleson, 70 on "uS ;, VI one .nvInu .nree
ono half of the extent coast which we posseseed
before fbese aconis;ons We In ve nov three grsa
maritime frontsr on the Atlantic the Gulf of Mexico
and the Pa ciAcmakipv In the whole an extent ~ ssa
coast exceeding Ave tbousand miles This IL the az
tent Of the fescoast of ths United States not in
Guiding bays sounds and email Irregularities Of the
main shore and Of the sea islands II these be in
the length Of the shore line Of coast estmst-
ed by the OF the coast survey in his
report would be thirty thousand and sixty three
miles.
Itwould be difficult to calculate the value Of these i'm
mense additions 70 our territorial possessions Texas
lying CONTIGUOUS to the western boundary Of louisiana
embracing within its limits part of the navigabe tr
butary waters of the Mississippi and an extensive sea-
coast could not long remained in the hands Of
foreign power without endangerng the peace Of our
southwestern frontier Her products in the vicinity of
the tributaries of the Mississippi must have sought
market through these streams, running into and
through territory and the danger of irritation
and collision Of interests between Texas, . foreign