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were reaching the state department, the same accounts were find-
ing their way into the public prints. Larkin's despatch of July
10, in somewhat stronger form, was sent by him to the New York
Suns, and from that journal copied by many of the other news-
papers.48 In it only two alternatives were given--either Cali-
fornia, with all its resources and the mile-wide bay of San Fran-
cisco, must belong to the United States or pass into the hands of
France or England. With California also went the possession of
Oregon. "Why they are in service," said the published despatch
in referring to the recently appointed foreign consuls against
which the state department had likewise been warned, "their gov-
ernment best knows, and Uncle Sam will know to his cost."
"The exhaustless wealth of the mines of Mexico, the broad and
fertile acres of the Californias will fall a prey to British rapacity
should there be none to interpose," was the opinion of the New
Orleans Picayune.4" And even the staid American Review lifted
up a voice of warning against English aggressions and in favor
of American occupation.45 The report of the proposed monarchy
likewise received due publicity and unfavorable comment.4" While
the bitter attacks of the London Times against the United States
as a nation of land-grabbers, and the repeated calls it made upon
the British government to secure California or at least prevent its
acquisition by the Americans, aroused no little indignation."
Effect upon the policy of the administration.-The importance
of the question of foreign interference in California lies not so
much, however, in its effect upon the popular mind as upon the
policy pursued by the government. On September 16, when con-
sidering the instructions for Slidell, Polk records that even the
fact of his mission was to be kept secret, lest British or French
4Larkin to New York Sun, July 31, 1845. Larkin MSS., III, No. 235.
Reprinted in Niles' Register, LXIX, 204; Daily Union, Oct. 21; Charleston
Mercury, Oct. 22.
"Picayune, Sept. 27, 1845; see also Daily Union, June 16; Richmond
Enquirer, Jan. 26, 1846.
"American Review, Jan., 1846.
46Picayune, Jan. 10, 1846; Ibid., March 7 (extract from Baltimore Amer-
ican); Daily Union, March 10th and 16th.
4Niles' Register, LXVIII, 211; LXIX, 147; Richmond Enquirer, Sept.
12, 1845; Daily Union, Sept. 8, Oct. 23; New York Journal of Commerce,
March 24, etc.242
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