Arkansas true Democrat., 1858-01-19
From the Washington States. Texas and Arizona.

Fourteen years ago MT. Buchanan and his party were pieading for the admission of Texas into the Union; and then it was a doubtful question. in more than half of the States wheth- CT annexation could be accomplished. Two years after, the representatives of the Lone Star took their seats in Congress; and in five wears more 1t would have been difficult to find man on that floor willing to say, in the face of the country, that it would be wise and excel- lent m meas,lre to read Texas and all she brought with her out of the Confederation.
 Seven years Is not a long period m the fle of nation; yet that space of tune brought m, and imbedded firmly in all the feelings, policy and prospects of the Union Texas, New Mexico and California. This half-unwelcomeC California has found gold enough to bear the country through such extravagances of enterprise aud ex- pansion as no other thirty millions of people ever perpetrated. Texas also endowed the Union with the best and shortest roais to the Pacific both in direct line from the Gulfol Mexi- co, and across the State on tine 32d parallel. Without Texas and California, distant and inaccessible Oregon would have been slow to settle and hard to protect; but, under the lmpe- tus given to trade and emigration, our people made rapid discovery and appropriation of Its noble capabilities. Oregon will soon be heard in her place in the Senate side by side with her sovereign sister of California; and It may be one of her first duties to vote on measures winch will reinforce her position, by creating new pow CTS on the Pacific, and new bonds oi union with the elder States. The peninsula of Lower California would round off handsomely our Pa ci6c outline, and slight expansion and stragh- teninq off of the southern boundary of Arizona would give us what we really need and ought to have-that is, the very best, shortest and most easily made overland route to the Pacific.
 This Mir. Buchanan attempted to secure for our people in his peace-treaty with Mexico; but he was defeated by the ntrigues of the British agents, who inveged Gen. Scott into his un- fortunate and somewhat too celebrated "brlbe and amnesty arrangements" The anti-annexa- ton party, although 1t did not succeed ln ex cluding Texas fiom the Union, had, neverthe- less, the tact power, and determination to force a peace on terms that pressed our new boundary much further north than MT. Polk and his de- mocratic cabinet wished or expected. This cur tailment lost us the best route to the Pacific which, from the nature of the country, should be free to dip down as low as the thirtieth paral Tel of latitude; and 1t also excluded us from a port on the Gulf of California. Few men in that day saw, with the farreaching statesman ship of MT. Buchanan, the stringent need of good home routes of communication with the
 Pacific, and the anti acquisition party carried their point. A very short time revealed the necessity of having some path to Oregon and California that could be travelled In winter as well as in summer, and on which the existing generation might hope to see constructed a pay ing railroad. In due time the country had democratic President-none but democratic Administrations gave new domain to the Union; witness Florida and Louisiana, well as Texas and Calfornia-and then there was action.
 The Gadsden treaty very soon gave us Ari- zona, and this greatly improved our line of com muncation with California; but it still falls short of the best line, and 1t has not provided us with the almost indispensable dunct of port on the Gulf of California. The Senate taken with an unaccountable paroxysm of economy, or anti-anneXationism, and cut down the Gads- den Purchase considerably, throwing out mines of uncomputable value and fine strip of terri tory, to save few millions, or avoid more do- main. Some years before, the whole Of this n- valuable ore region was ours, and 1t would have l been blessing to every one-to Indian infested northern Mexico, as well as to the poor natives and our own people-f we had then retained 1t. That class of patriots who were Tn fever of anxiety about the Union outgrowing itself, would not have it at all then; but in a half dozen years, many oi them expanded into a willingness to pay ten millions of dollars for a piece of the territory they had rejected with such pertinacious disdan, and will yet see the wisdom of paying ten, ortwenty, or thirty mil | lions more for the remainder of the domain they had thrown away so blindy.
 We have not what we actually require in the reduced limits of the Gadsden Purchase-not what Mexico, if she knew her own interests,
 would desire us to have for the better protec- ton of her helpless frontier villages from their ruthless Indian enemies; still so slow is man to | accept unfamiliar truths. that it may be long time before Mexico and the United States come to the conclusion that a timely t,n millions in the exhausted treasury of Mexico and the re- moval of the boundary to thirty degrees north latitude, would be a mutal benefit.