The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-04-08

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Did it move thsss gentlemen! Not at all Every Of
them voted for annexstioo The election came round
but what did those for that who had the benefit OF
their votes Sach agencies or be proper to call them
msufentates, maintain respect no longer than tney
Sir, we take New Mexico and California Who is
weak enough to think that there is an endf why, DO
not hear avowed every day. that il is proper for us
also 10 take Sonora and Taaupas and other provinces
or States of northern Mexico Who thinks that the
hunger for dominion will stop here OF ITSELF somebody
has said that this acquisition mean and ean and
unsatisfactory, that we shall seek no further In my
judgment sir you may believe that, if you believe
foray won't try for better! But. further there are
some things that we can argue against with temper,
and submit to, if overrued, without modification: There
other things that to affect consciousness
OF being reasonable man, and evnce disposition to
impose upon his common sense. And OF this class OF
topics or Wetensons, have heard Of anything
and cannot conceive OF anything, ridiculous in ITSELF
more absurd and more arontve TO all sober judgment
than the cry that we are getting indemnify Indemnity
them not TO- be worth dollar and we pay for them
vast sum Of money We have expended, as everybody
knows large treasures in the prosecution OF the MAR and
gentlemen mean by it! Let us see how this matter
stands. We get country. We get country, In the
y sa
try between the Nueces and the Rio Grandc What this
country it, appears from publication Of an honorable
given by Major Gaines He says that the country
worth nothing that he would not hazard the life OF
single individual for every loot o. anS rom san pane,o
been there lately and is well acquainted with the cond
ton Of the country So far then, that part of
QUESTION is concerned, take it for granted is not worth
Now, of New Mexico OF that, forty nine 6f,ieths,
at least is mere barren waste OF desert plain or noun
tain. There is no wood, timber-te fagos to light
fire carried thirty or forty miles on mules There is no
natural fall of rains in temperate climates The place
ming up, some to the height Of ten thousand feet with
very narrow valleys at their bases through which streams
sometimes trickle alenga garter winds along through
Rocky mountains down TO the latitude OF about 80 de-
gIees, some three four hundred miles. There these
sixty thousand persons are In the mountains, on the
right and the left streams whose natural tendencies
would be lateral streams to flow into the Rio Grande
and in certain OF the year. when the rains have
been abundant the mountains, some OF them do actual
" reach the Rio Grande but the greater part of them
awaysand all of them for greater part OF the year
never reach outlet TO the They are absorbed in
the sandy and desert plains of the country There is
culture anywhere, that which be obtained by
tfcal watering OF irrigation. You can have this along
the narrow valley Of the Ko Grande IN the gorges Of the
down along the course OF those streams that lose them
selves in the sands,
There not foot of land to be sold by the government
There is not an acre that viii become ours when the
country becomes ours-not an acre But more than this
the country is full of peoplesuch they There is
planter. or farmers, There will co. dare say specula;
country in the valley Of the Mississippi who desire
wander; but undertake to say there will not be two
hundred farmers or planters IRON the United States in
there Do you suppose they are gong TO cultivate lands
which cannot be made productive IN The slightest degree
Whou. irrigation The people that are there produce
deal and consume good deal. Again New Mexico is
not like Texas. had hoped and still hope that lexas
s to be filled up by population like ourselveenot by
the Spanish racenot by peonsnot by coarse, ignorant
vulgar landlords with tribes Of slaves around them, pre-
Mi RUSK Will the honorable senator allow me ore
word did not like to interrupt the senator when he
o a6 din e. b suD tying the y b.
known, it will be found to be as valuable any portion
Of Texas From its source to it's mouth. the valley of
choose to interrupt the honorable SENATOR but do not
claim il as indemnity believing it to be our just and
equitable right So far as Mexican population is con
cerned, there is good deal of it Texas highly
respectable, and amongst them those who have dstn
guished themselves as patrots-men of intelligence and
OF worth These are coming over and settling in Texas
encouraged by the prospect of peace.
MI. WEBSTER. | take what | say in regard to the
valley OF the Rio Gande from the statement of Major
Gaines am glad TO hear that there part Of it fit for
there some of the inhabitants of New Mexico who
not besotted with their miserable condition not
to make effort to get out OF the country, and to
into better.
Sir, would, if had tme call the attention OF the Sem
ate to very instructive speech that made in the
other house by Mr.. Smith, of Connecticut. He seems
TO have examined all authorities, conversed with all
travellers, correspondent with all agents His
speech contains all their communications and commend
it to every man in the United States who wishes to
know what about to acquire by the acquisition of
New Mexico New Mexico is secluded isolated--a
place by itselfin the middle of the mounainsve hun
dred miles, believe. from Texas.
Mr.. RUSK Five hundred miles from the settled por.
tons of Texas.
Mr.. WEBSTER. Farther from anywhere else! Ii
does not belong anywhere. 1t has belongings about
it. Sir at this moment, absolutely RETIRED and
shut out from communication with the civilized world,
than the Sandwich islands, OF the islands in the
Pacific ocean, 1t presses hard Typee, and the people
infinitely less elevated in mind and condition. than the
people of the Sandwich sands-far less worthy of our
assocationar less fit to send their here, than
are the inhabitants of the Sandwich sandsfar less
thy are they than the better classes of Indians in
neghborhood Commend me to the Cherokees the Choc-
taws you please, to speak of the Pawnees the Black
feet and the Snake Indians, and the Flaheadsanythng
except the --- Indians, and am satisfied with them,
instead of the people of New Mexico. They have
ton of our institutions OF any free institutions They
any notion of popular government Why, not the slight
estno the slightest on earth And the question asked,
What will be their constitution! II is farccal to talk of
such people making constitution. They do not know
the meaning Of the term they do not know its import
they know nothing at all about it. And tell you,
sir, that when we have made it Territory, and wish to
make it q State, such constitution the executive
power of this government thinks fit send to them will
zens of New Mexico will be framed in the city of lash
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