The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1848-04-19

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in sounds . hich any one r0uld hare heard
Who could hrzr thunder. Did Il move
these grn,lrmsn! Mt n all. Every one
Of fhem Voied Ior annrxaiion. The elee-
ton came round lew months sllerxs aids.
and il'ry were MI turned out: but What
alId those care for Ihst u ho had the hene-
~ Of lheir soles! Surh agenriss. or II
Il he proper 10 call ihsm inslumsnialiIirs.
maintain respect no langsr Than they enn-
linue 10 he useful.
Sir. We tske New Mexirn and califnr-
MIA. Who j. weak enough To think that
there IL an end! Why. du ne not hear
II AEnwed rvery dag that IL is proper Tor
Ne also 10 take Sonora and Tamsulipas.
and n'hsr provinces or states Of Northern
Mexicnl Who thinks that the hunger
for dominion Will stop here of iis,lfl
Somrhndy has said that this acquisition
is 50 mean and lean and unsatisfactory
that We shall GEEK no further. In my
judgment, sir. you may hrlieEe that. II
YOU can believe that \ rapaeious animal
that has made one unpnduciire foray
Won't try for 4 heucrl But. furlhrr.
Their" are some things that We can argue
agains. with temper. and submit 10. il o.
verruled. without modification. There
are other things that seem In alrrt ones
consciousness Of heing reasonable man.
anil evince 4 Disposition tn impose upon
his common sense. And of this rlass of
topics or preieniinns ] have never heard
"f any ihing. and cannot conceive of sny
thing more ridicnlons in ils,lf, more .b-
surd. and mere aTronrive to all sober iudg.
meni, than the cry that we are getting in
hemnity. Indemnity by the acquisition
Of New Mexico and California! | hnld
them mt tn be worth dollar. aud we paw
j Tor them vast SUN OF money. We have
expended. rs every body knows, large
treasures in the prosecution Of the war.
aud now what is there to constitute in.
demnily What do gentlemen mean BY
IN .et ~ see how this matter stands.
We get country. We get country in
the first instance. eiher by crssion or &C.
acknowledgement of boundary-l care not
which wsy Won state 1.-THE country he
tween the Nueces and the Rio Grande.
What this country is appears from nnh.
licaiion Of an honorable gentleman in the
other House, in which he quotes an &C.
count given by Major Gaines. lie says
that the country 10 worth nothing that he
would not hazard the life Of single indi-
vdual tor every foot of land from San Pa.
tricin 10 the valley of the Rio Grande.-
This gentleman has been there lately. and
is well acquainted with the condition OF
the country. So Ear then, as that part III
our acquisition is concerned. | take il for
granted il is not worth dollar!
Now of New Mexicn. Of that. forty.
nine tillieths al least is a mere barren
waste Of desert plain or mountain. There
is no wood, no timher-Iitlle fagots 10
light fire carried thirty or forty miles on
mules. There is no natural fall Of rains.
as in temperate climates. The place and
scene are Asiaiic-. enormously high noun
tains. running up some TO the height Of
ten thousand feet, with narrow valleys a,
their bases. through which streams some
times trickle along; garter winds along,
through the thread Of which runs the Rio
Grande from alar in The Rnrky Noun.
lains. down TO the latitude Of about thirty.
three degrees, some three or four hundred
miles. There these sixty thousand per.
sons are. I'm the mountains, on the right
and the left, are streams whose natural
tendencies would be as lateral streams to
flow intn the Rio Grande, and in certain
seasons Of the wear. " hen the rains have
been abundant in the mountains, some Of
them d" actually reach the Rio Grande.
hut the greater par, Of them always, and
all Of them for 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 any
where. save that which can be obtained
by artificial watering OF irrigation. You
can have this along the narrow valley oil
the Rio Grande, in the gorges of the noun.
tains. where The streams are hut you ran.
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