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Parent Issue
Day
5
Month
January
Year
1846
Copyright
Public Domain
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California Several leading papers are conjecturing, or rather affirming that Mr. Slidell, our minister to Mexico, is authorized and commissioned to purchase California. This is to be done, it is said, in the settlement of the boundary line between us and Mexico. The price has been guessed at, by some seriblers, at $10,000,000. A correspondent of the Christian Citizen writes from New York Dec. 8; 'Since my arrival in this great emporium of the nation, I find strong proof of progress which pacific views have already made among the best portions of the community. The press, started by the alarms of war from Washington, has come up wholly to the advocacy of peace as alike our duty and our policy. The Journal of Commerce, the Commercial Advertiser, the Express, the Tribune and, even the Courier and Inquirer, all the leading papers of the city have put forth their simultaneous remonstrances against measures tending to hostilities with England about Oregon.' According to the report of the Secretary of the Treasury, the following articles of import a duty of more than 35 percent on the wholesale price: Cotton bagging, white and red wines spirits refined sugars, sirup, dates, pepper, whiting, taned cordage, cut glass, demijohns, lead, writing paper, and some manufactures of iron, as chains, spikes sad irons, hoop iron, &c. The House Committee on Foreign Affairs has 9 members, of which 2 are Whigs, and 6 out of 9 from the Slave Slates! This is one guarantee that they will not be hasty to recommend war with England: for the papers in the planting States are much in favor of pacific measures.