Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-04-03
ANOTHER TERRITORIAL SCHEME.

Some time ago we asked the question: WHY
does MIR. Buchanan prefer the extreme southern
route for the Pacific Railroad. and turn a deaf
ear to the advantages aud superiority of it. 1t
appears that some Cal;fornians, advocates of
territorial and slavery extension, had made ar.
engagements with Comoniort, the fugitive presi.
dent OF Mexico, whereby they were to open ur
and develop the resources of Sonora, and in re
turn 10 have lalf of all the land they should sur
vey. As citizens and landholders, they expect
ed to cooperate with Cumonfnrt in urging upon
the United States a purchase of Sonora by treaty.
and in an arrangement Of it's terms, Comonfort
has been dethrOned. but their titles to the land
hold good, and would be recognized by the courts
OF Mexico. Several treaties have been drawn up
by the extensionists. for negotiation, but as their
provisions were not sufficiently com prehensive
were rejected. The CALIFORNIA; are now said tt
be operating with Senator Gwin, whose policy is
to contine the treaty to sonora. so that it may be
organized at once into a territory with Arinuza,
bearing the latter name. They fear that the at
tempt to insist upon all the territory north of a
line drawn from the mouth of the Rio Grande,
on the Gulf of Mexicu, to the mouth of the river
Mayo, on the Gulf of California, would lose them
everything. The President is understood to
sympathize with this view, and therefore. insists
with General Brown, upon the Ell Pasc
and Fort Yuma route to San Diego, on the Pacific
which is as impracticable a route as the Wit Of
man could easily pitch upon, having for it's termi
nus uu ihniSulnVhHt lnuldl town., whose prlDCl
pal products are clans, grasshoppers and the
stencil of whale carcasses, and which is 500 mile,
from the commercial metropolis of the Pacif,
coast. any other?
This, however. is understood to be nothing bu
a blind. 1t is said that Zuloaga's government
will sell the territory the extensionists want, ful
they need money; and a special COMMISSIONS il
to be dispatched forthwith 30 negotiate and t.
out.bid any rival buyers. Arizona once organized
with Sonora into a territory, the schemers viii
urge the building of a road from Ell Paso t.
G%uaymas, a place about three hundred miles u,
the Gulf OF California, and therefore eight hun
dred miles more out of the way, and distant from
the commercial center where, in spite of the Pa
cite Railroad, trade and and indus;r,
and wealth will centre.
As a corollary and key to this scheme, it is un
derstood that Senator Gwin (who represents III
Californian extensionists in Washington, and VIII
has lost respect and influence at home by to-
great anxiety to keep himself in office is to tr
his hand at making another slave state, and Sc
curing his own election TO the Senate from Arizc
ma. General Houston, who voted for Lecompton
is to be appointed Governor of Arinoza, it is said
We hope on conjecture only, and all the horde,
Rufhans who are now 10 Washington, msny c
them fugitives frem justics, will precipitate then
selves upon that rich territory, and there attemr
to retriese the fortunes they have lost in Kansas
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