Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-09-23
ANOTHER ANNEXATION SCHEME.

ANONLhEh
A few days since a telegram from
Washington informed us Of the prob
able extension by the Senate of the
jurisdiction Of the Mexican Claims
Commission, concluding with the fol-
lowing remarkable announcement:
It is given out here that the judg-
mems will be ~largelyin favor OF the
United States, so that little objection
can be made 10 the ratification OF the
treaty nov pending. The general
impression is that this will be done
during the early part Of the approach
ing session. It is reported that the
United States, in the settlement OF
these claims of her citizens, will, in
lieu of their payment in gold or its
| equivalent, make q proposition to the
/ republic of Mexico for a portion OF
/ her territory. The United States can
/ then indemnify her citizens by gold
payments.
Have we here another jOb-another
annexation scheme in which the
President is a stakeholder? Does
Grant favor this mode of settlement
Of the claims Of our citizens against the
Mexican Republic in order that Beast
Butler and George Wilkes may secure
a title to the lands they pretend to
own as the principals In the Lower
California company recently ordered
out OF Mexico by President Juarez?
Is there to be no end to the cupidity
of Grants administration? Is the
machinery of Government to be run
in the interest of the Beast and his
confrere, Wilkes, and the good, safety
and welfare of the peopletO be utterly
ignored? It is well known that GER
tain persons, including several Con-
gressmen, with Butler at their head,
organized q colonization scheme upon
false ~pretenses, and sent out to Lower
California, a colony Of "moss
pickers," who had a very misera-
BILE time Of it while there; and
that the original stockholders Of this
Lower California company made
a good deal of money out Of
the enterprise by selling worth
less shares to credulous buyers.
It is also matter of public noto-
riety that a remnant of these
'moss pickers," after their ranks had
been thinned by disease and starva-
ton, were returned to California at
expense, and that in San Fran
cisco they published the shocking de-
tails Of their s~ufferings, putting an
other brand upon the Beast, who
wants to try his hand at governing
Massachusetts as he governed New
Orleans. With this sad experience Of
the "moss pickers," we supposed that
the Lower California company Of
Beast Butler and sporting editor
Wilkes had ''gone dead" Can it be
possible that we were mistaken, and
that we are to have another scheme
Of annexation to form a part Of the
administration policy during the next
two years? Can it be that Grant has
-raded with the Beast, and that, in
consideration ofthe support Of the lat
Jer, the President has promised him
he GOvernorship of Massachusetts,
md the ownership of Lower Cali
out of which he was recently
very properly driven by Juarez?
What is the country coming to? Rob-
Iery and corruption, stOekjobbing, I
and speculation, horses, dogs, and
worse than dogs, have the exclusive !
lttentiOn of the highest officials, and
ire to have the benefits of treaties and
egislatiOn, while the people are bowed
o the earth with the burdens of an
n~tolerable taxation!