The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-02-07
Gen. Gsdsdcn's Trcaty-ycry Like a Plum

The more we inquire into the history, the
facts, the intrgues, the stock jobbers, the wire
pullers, the scene shiftera, and the treasury
blood-suckers connected with that monstrous
abortion called the Gadsden treaty, the more
are we inclined to the deliberate judgment that
it is grand plunderipg operation against the
! treasury Of the United States
| The description which we give in another
| part Of this paper Of the God-forsaken, man
| for aiken, and most horrible desert tract OF
country for which Gen. Gadsden has contracted
to pay the sum of twenty millions OF dollars
we commend especially to the attention Of the
members Of ell parties Of the United States Sc
nate. 1t viii be useful to them in the event of
this treaty being submitted to the Senate for
its ratification. The geography Of this new
territory, it will be seen, is minutey detailed
from the observations of the official chief of the
| late boundary commission, Mr.. Bartlett. Our
description, therefore, may be regarded as ~
official account Of the couutry by the officer of
the government, detailed expressly for that OBJ
ject among the other duties Of his commission.
If any body can tell US what we are to make
Of this new territory except a common place Of
| refuge for the final extinction Of our Indian
tribes by starvation we shall be glad to hear it.
| The swamps Of South Carolina, the pine barreos
ofthe Old North State The sterile sands ofNew
Jersey, the windy waste Of Coney Island. the
| great plains which flank the Rocky Mountains,
| without tree within reach Of a telescope, are
| like the Garden Of Eden in beauty and fertility
contrasted with this Dantes z Inferno,'' Of the
Gadsden treaty. Here and there scanty
stream, issuing from the defiles of volcanic
mountains waters for q short distance the sell
wage of o little valley, and then sinks in the
| absorbing sands. Here aud there, along these
scanty streams, is ragged Mexican settlement,
protected by detachment Of ragged Mexican
| soldiers against the fierce Apache. If there is
| gold in this territory it has yet to te found
if there is any thing in it but starvation to man
and beast, it has yet to be discovered. Pract-
cally il would be an advantage to Mexico to
give us this Gadsden country and twice rs
much more OF the same sort, as free gift and
q good radiance Why, then, this chuckling
among the administration journals over the
treaty which exacts an equivalent of twenty
millions Of dollars?
We shall explain. First of ALL the treaty
requires that the Pacific railroad shall pass
through this desert waste OF chihuahua and
Sonora. And upon this point we find grand
combination of railway stock jobbers leagued
together in a sort Of holy alliance for the spoils
with one or two Of the leading spirits of the Cab
met up to their very chins in the grand specula-
ton The ratification Of the treaty fixes the rail
4 80 1.
vesting a dollar, the parties interested may sell
out their right, title, and interest for millions
| Of money Secondly, five millions go to the
| relief Of the Garay league the Hargous asso-
citation, the Benjamin copartnership. and other
| Mexican claimants connected with the Tebuan-
| tepec scheme and other projects. Upon this
| point we are Informed that Gen Gadsden must
| have forgotten the verbal Instructions of Marcy
| or that he contounded them with the instruc-
| tions Of the Tehuantepec people, and that hence
the Marcy division OF the Cabinet are not salts
fed with the general result, though it is just
the thing for Davis, Cushing and company
Marcy appears 10 have been left out of the holy
alliance, whence, we presume the delay in
sending this precious piece Of South Carolina
preston that Gen Gadsden will be finally sent
back to try for more plausible bargain for a
treaty which. upon its face will not betray SO
brazcnly the joint stock conspiracy involved
against the public treasury.
The third and most conspicuous feature of
this splendid specimen of South Carolina d.
plonacy," SO called by the Charleston journals
:, .los, .r,, % ~ Al
third and principal feature Of the cash equiva-
lent, is tue item Of fifteen millions fJr the relief
| of Santa Anna three millions down. upon the
ratification Of the compact Tor his immediate
| nee ssities In respect to this branch of the
| subject we understand Gen. Gadsden was care
fully posted up before his departure to Mexico,
~ Santa Annals minister and special fayorite,
Gen. Almonte, at Washington. Upon the whole,
it appears that the treaty is the result of the
Joint instructions of the Southern Pacific Rail
road coalition headed by The Davis and Clsh-
ing section Of the Cabinet; of the Tehuantepec
holy alliance Of tock-jobbers, (the Sloo CON-
pany included-their share being the sole occu-
patton of the Tehuantcpec route and Of the
Mexican minister Almoute. The result is per-
factly consistent with the schedule OF the par
ties represented. The railroad route is secured
the Tehuaotepeckers are provided for, and
Gen. Santa Anna is to have the necessary means
;or sustaining himself and enforcing the due
fulflment Of al the rest Of the bargain.
But, considering the desert character of the
country to lie ceded us, the bowling wilderness
for which We are to pay twenty mi,lions-and
considering the Pacific railroad alliance, the
Tehuantepec combination Of spoismen and
the facts and the nature Of the subsidies for the
relief Of Santa Anna, we cannot avoid the inn
preston that this Galsden treaty is diplo-
matte humbug of the first water, and that it
covers a string OF log-rolling schemes for ex-
tracing untold millions from the treasury or