The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1849-02-24

il is necessary, in order TO give single mem
Der Of Congress- that there should be seveny-one tho-
sand and some hundreds of population. NOW, what Is
the population of California; Does any man pretend mat
IL approximaies anything like thatf have looked
little into this subject The population OF mat couhu}
uncertain before the late rush. and II is SUI more SO
But Sir Georgs Simpson, who 10 reliable traveller
and writer, there late 1912, but did not publish
his book until lo7 and he says the population OF Cafor-
MIA then about thousand. But, again, by a
late Mexican document, prepared with the view oil GIVING
the different portions Of that government their share OF rep
esenatves and therefore giving the population of the
era provinces the highest estimate, down at twenty
thousand four hundred and wentynine Ii is very
probable that the truth lies between these extremes and
hat the population prior to the late rush did not exceed
twelve fifteen thousand That the subStrdtum then,
on which to base estimate of the present population
Now what the additions? We have been told by the
senator from Tennessee Mr. BELL and by others, that
there is to be influx there in the course of a
year they going in by thousands and tens of thou
sands that between eleven and twelve thousand
their way thher thought knew where that last
ment FROM and although seemed 10 be sustained the
other day by several gentlemen around the speaker,
doubted IT, have the ststenen; from the paper
tanning il here 1t Commences b fore reported IN
eighty vessels three THOUSAND four hundred and seventy
6ven "Crew one thousand and one.' This estimate
goes back point of fact 10 the commencement OF this
gold feyer-this California excitement and II brings IN one
aggregate all who have embarked for that couotry from
that date up the present time. 1t then to give
the of large number of vessels, with their several
ports of Departure and the of the passengers and
the number of the crews and sums them all up passen
gers and crews officers and and takes for granted
that they all going away to the gold mines as
they ss foot IN California and stay there That is
the mode by which they have managed to make 1t appear
that there eleven thousand and odd now on
their way from this country by to California sup
pose that between eight and nine thousand the utmost
extent of persons both in time past and present. bound for
California from this country by
Recoectng the subsiydt of the population of that
country fifteen thousand at the most what
amount of shipping, at the rate they carry will 1t take
aru
to ente them to member of CoDgress-seventyo zone
thousand and some hundreds'
Mr. FOOTE, (interposlng.) VIII the senator allow me
to suggest that he has certainly moderated the number oil
persons their way 10 California as he does not
take consideration the large numbers that have gone
overland
Mr. DAYTON If the senator from Mississippi will be
kind enough allow proceed he will find that had
intention to overlook obvious view OF the question as
that. was coming to it speedily as possible.
say, sir, when you rccollec the amount of population
necessary ente the people OF California TO one represent
stve Congress- If you limit ii to sixty thousand,
which has been limit applied TO the admission of Ter
into the Union, you will need thousand SHIPS to
carry your population to California; at the average number
of passengers heretofore carried Does any believe
that thousand ships going there from this country
around Cape Horn or TO the isthmus do not.
But, again know full well that portion of this popu-
aon will go the inland route But how many, In pro-
portion the whole number will take that route he
number will be comparatively small But suppose that ten,
twelve, fifteen thousand the country upon
this wild tramp to California. That will be liberal al
party going California by this route have had actually to
their mules for subsistence by the way When
you talk about inland emigration of ten or fifteen thou
sand, you put down. Think the outside estimate 90 not
believe estimates of the number of Amer
lean citizens California 1t is supposed there may be a
hundred hundred and hty Two hundred thousand
inhabitants in California during the coming summer But
they be there, of what will it be made u2 II II said that
all Europe sending its hordes to shovel IN the mines
and dig in the washngs Of California But Tecoec, that
the pauper population Of Europe get there Very
few of the German poor and still fewer OF the irish and
English poor get there. The journey thher involves
personal expenditure far beyond their But suppose
they do get Do they Constitute American popu-
laton. Are they American citizens demanding law and
order at our handsi Will they stay there Will your
American citizens stay theref Wi the great mass OF
these adventurous from what nation they may be they
foreign American, make that country their permanent
home, My word for it, In the of or two years
your ships will return laden with more gold dgers man
gold dust
1t is taken for granted that with few exceptions the men
who go California intend stay there, and Will stay
there. In my Judgment this will be The ropuia-
ton Of the country will for years to come be IN state OF
change, rolling and fro, with little guide save ,s
impulse of passion, avarce, want and wrecheuness
will be longer time than imagine before there VII! be
sufficient American population that country to eRtlte
them numerically admission here And are these for
egners in for consideration, swelling the aggregate
who are entitled camor for republican government and
law? Why, a cool piece of business at the best, that
the ons Of the word sending emlgrsns to take up
the gold of California if it belonged to them And now,
ad on before they shake the dust from their feet they
take tn r places affairs and hresdes and
claim the hasy of State government and State
law. Sir there will not be sufficient American popua-
ton there for years to to enle them to admission
here a State The foreign populations whatever 1t may
to- has right ask early and hasy partci-
patton State institutions. 80 much IN reference 10 num-
bers, and now for the character of this population
speak of it with all respect but do not fear II speak OF
it as think Of II. Sir, that population consists OF TWO
kinds and they the anpodes of each other The one
is the old inhabitants Of the country the descendants OF
ancient Spaniads the retired Office holders, the rem
of the old Franciscan MISSION and perhaps 1t is The
and the unentrprsng popu alton on the lace
Of the earth Sir George Simpson tells that the country
IS alipe to the cultivation of maize, yet they do not rhse
enough for their support lie tells us also that whie
continued, The hills ed with sheep
they have been abandoned by tn present ndoent pop
uaon and rep aced by cattle simply because 1t is easier to
Kill and clean The letter than and clean and weave
fleece of tbs oraer Russia I'D England, gong IN dii-
fer directions around the world have actually monopo-
liz ID the fur trade the very doors of these Caorniins
because they too indocn to carry on themselves
South America from the beginning had been the very par
adse iders Its rumored pearbeds and its sierras OF
silver took thousands there early day. and OF all tins
population California has been prc-emnent as the abode
those old missions That the character OF the Spanarjs
upon the soil. need not say that the Indians who enter
this calculation of ten fifteen thousand population
have still fewer of the essentials of an American citizen
There is another class of population; your regular
Anglo Saxons those children Of destiny who are about 10
spread themselves away to the setting sun; VINO ana
wha, theya Many of them are men OF high respec-
ability, of great enterprise and would do them all Just
ice. Bat many of them far from possessing such
They there, stimulated by the spirit oil wild
advenuregone there for go.d that they may return To
spend and they constitute the nrge portion, the great
of this emigrant population What appeal ASK arc
you make the patriotism OF these men to divert them
l,I,,r eintn of Iau