The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-11-10

THE NEW YORK HERALD sPIKINe IT'S owN GUNS.
Ia the New York BerAla Of Thursday last find Tie
following extraordinary paragraph:
Tbs American minister negotiated the celebrated bOupda
- treaty ita santa Anna whereby his supreme ghnss
poekstsd millions o. dollars paid BY the United States
fr worthless strip OF land IN SonorA and Wh which
sun santa enabled TO keep himself IN power, 70
,uuih the liberal party exile inprison and 10 murder
msnv Of best OF Mexico. These facts iA too
heh Is the rscoeeon Of the President elect and GEddrn,
with The administration Mashington directly inP
Gated in furnishing the funds for the almost indiseunnte
massacre Il the bosom aads o. Alvarez within tbe last
year.
Such is the present Judgment Of The New York Herald
o. the Last Meziosn treaty, Htas more than three
months ago this same journal published long editorial
article taking ground against Buffalo abolition paper
which, among other tbOgs attacked the administration
for purchasing this very strip Of territory in Sonora from
tbe government Of Mexico. The New York herald in its
repy to The Buffalo paper ably and eloquenuy showed
thai the purchase ia question rght-iudeed that all
our acquisitions Or territory beginning with the purchase
Of Louisiana and ending with the purchase Of Mesila val
ey we're moi only righteous bat essential TO the prosperity
and to the progress 81 country The article Of The
Herald was generally copied BY the democratic press and
commended for lis unusna fairness administration
which that journal has pursued with all Of oboquy
for the last Two years and hale The following extract
from the article viii be interesting complete contra
dietion Of the extract We have above quoted:
The fret Item relates the Louisiana Territory and the
cost Of its purchase Is down SIS $50 600 Grant it,
grant that The territory purchased aveboiaipg terri
tory there advantages in the purchase
North. and nothing for As understand IT,
the great object d the purchase the outlet
The Mississippi river and its magnificent and prolific valley
r the benefit Of In the way Of trade this nc
outon since 1903 the free States and Terrific
res eonguoss the Mississippi and its tributaries equal in
ysue least thousand millions 0f dollars. Then
again parts of this Louisiana purchase the North
secured tbs Duhng State Of Iowa. the beautiful and thrift
t Territory Of Minnesota and the tremendous Territory
Nebraska say nnthng Of the chances for Kansas the
prse the south oft All this il offset which
be measured in dollars and but the public lands
this Louisiana purchase Sold end be snd viii probably
foot up in the end at the Treasury Department gross
ia hard cash Of not less than two hundred millions Of
dollars, exclusive Of grants 10 northern railroads.
We find, then, that the both sides touching
the louisiana purchase, stands as follows
Purchase Of Louisiana S23, $50. GOO
Actual benefits to northern trade from the nc
QUESTION Of the mouths Of the Mississippi l,oo9oo0 600
Pablo lands in cash 2o0-c0a, 600
To.al zoe, 600. 600
Deduct outlay for slavery 2S,52o,ooo
Balance, clear gain by the Union I7s,iT0,0 600
Over eleven hundred millions clear gain Answer
fool according to bis folly, saith the Scriptures. This bal
win pay for the purchase Of Florida the Florida
from last and purchase Of Mississippi from Geor
gia nothing Of the revues and materials from the
public lands in those States and shall stil have
gin spare Of Thousand millions ayor Of the Louisiana
purchase.
The next three items
The obtan Texas, ls46-'47 S2lT, lT4. 900
Texas claims lSJa-'55 10, 0os. 900
The Gaesden treaty 10, B00. 600
Add Mexican indemnities ls4s la,eOo,ooo
And we have a total Of 25s.l74.ooo
This large expended in behalf Of the pet nsti
tuition Of the government, reHting from the anneruou 81
TeraE But let look the other side Of the
The and the peace with Mexico have given the North
the splendid State Of California whose sea port San Fran
cisoo the New York Of the Pacific Bat
overlook the solid specie dividends Of California; nearly the
whole o. which have been the gains North
since the diseorery Of the gold washngs
Arericanes in 1855 the export Of California gold manifest
ed and in private hands, the Atlantic northern States
been, dare say, fully up to three hundred and fifty
hons Of dollars
Our northern account with southern slavery therefore
concerning Texas, the with Mexico, &c, as fol
lows
Total expenses s25sl74, 900
iotai profits Ia soiid good $50. 600, 900
Balance, clear gain By the Union else, 600
Or in round numbers nineytwo millions Of dollars And
how does this preposterous rubbish of millions slavery
ton OF that country and the discovery Of the gold there
have given greater impulse commerce. domestic
and foreign, Atlantic and Pacific, than would been
given to IT. without California, had hundred millions
Ter the last half century been appropriated improve
ment Of rivers and haIbors
We think made ia +roluses Of and
was for souerr territory neither the public treasury TIE
hortera States kGre been the toS On the contrary white
the treasury has been replenshed from these acquisitions on
account Of the pet insttnon OF southern slaveywhie
commerce. from the the rivers and the lakes been
vastly benefited and while the North hs- some Of
TIE richest and taest Of these acqusonswe have secured
with them the whole region OF the gold country
nopoy Of its bonntfn digging wet and dry the ports
California; the sthmu passages and the command Of the Pa
oahc trade.
iurew Of such splendid advantagess these derived
ouys account Of the pet institution under debt
OF The heaviest obligations the South This debt
be cancelled in dollars and eent only be by the
exercise Of that spirit Of compromise and concession towards
The South which distinguished the fathers Of the consu-
hoa lp the exercise of this spirit should the South give
shape and form the State Of Kansas win be
small concession TO them admit the State thus organ
ed into the Inion in consideration OF the balance due the
south on account Of The Louisiana purchase every inch
which belonged to them the date Of its acquisition from
the Baze 10 the British boundary above the head springs Of
Inc mississippi. We spare Kansas the South If they
WIN II according 10 the law and the constitution and still
hoa prodigions slice q tbs original French Louisiana
e' cur buffalo Contemporary try again His statistics
uoA me text millions for slavery, nothing for commerce
recon- against himself and his II is
purchase o. southern territory and in acquisitions from
southern territorial Of the North have secured the
hon share OF the plumber and il folly to DENY f. The
outlet Of the Mississippi and The gold mines OF California set