1, 1842. =13=Capt. Jones to Pakenham, Nov. 30, 1841. _Revue de Paris_,
Jan., 1849. =13=Forbes, no. 2, 1846. _Nat. Intelligencer_, Apr. 26,
1842; Nov. 5, 1844. _Madisonian_, Dec. 24, 1842. =77=To gov. Calif.,
June 1, 1842. =77=Almonte, no. 84, 1844. =13=Barron, May 5, 1837; Jan.
20, 1844. _Id._ to Seymour, Jan. 28, 1845. =12=Blake to Seymour, July
5, 1846. =52=Vessels entering at Monterey, 1845. Forbes, Calif., 155,
225, 276. Bulletin de la Soc. de Géog., no. 77, May, 1844, 99-102. Dana,
Two Years, 83-8, 90-3, 200. Colton, Three Years, 19-22, 37-8, 45, 68,
111, 118, 155, 158, 172-3, 231. Whittier, "The Crisis." =61=R. B. Mason,
Sept. 18, 1847. Sherman Letters, 43. Duflot de Mofras, Explor., i, 319,
402; ii, 24. Wise, Gringos, 42, 49. Ho. 70; 30, 1, pp. 7-8. =61=Kearny,
Mar. 15; Apr. 28, 1847. =77=Covarrubias, Apr. 5, 1846. =247=March to
Larkin. =247=Sutter to Larkin, Oct. 3, 1845. Bidwell, Calif., 157,
161. _Revue des Deux Mondes_, Dec. 15, 1845, p. 1039. Sherman, Sloat,
xv, xxxix. St. Amant, Voyages, 513. Richman, Calif., 265, 267, 276.
=13=Forbes to Barron, Jan. 27, 1845. =13=Elliott, July 3, 1845. Royce,
Bidwell. Boston _Post_, Nov. 27, 1845. Jameson, Calhoun Corres., 946.
=247=Sutter to Larkin, Oct. 3, 1845. =372=Hyde, statement, 6. Farnham,
Life, 358-60. _Diario_, Mar. 21, 1846. Soulé, Annals, 168, 201. Sherman,
Home Letters, 114. _Niles_, June 6, 1846, p. 211. Schafer, Pac. Slope,
231. Simpson, Narrative, i, 287, 297. Sen. 33; 30, 1, p. 97. Revere,
Tour, 70. Sen. Rep. 75; 30, 1, p. 50. Sherman, Mems., i, 20. Bryant,
What I Saw, 447. Royce, Calif., 31-2, 38-9, 41. =123=Bidwell, statement.
Sen. 7; 30, 1 (Emory). Larkin, Calif. prior to 1846 (=52=Cons. letters,
Monterey, i, 1). Letter from S. Fe, July 29, 1841; Mex. in 1842, p. 128.
London _Times_, June 18, 1841. Phila. _No. American_, Oct. 31, 1843.
=52=Larkin, nos. 7, June 20; 9, Aug. 18, 1844; 12, Mar. 22; 22, June 6;
26, Sept. 29, 1845.
16.5. Startled by this affair, the Mexican government now proposed
to send 1200 men to California with the idea of establishing them as
military colonists; and in May, 1845, Ignacio Iniestra, a Mexican
educated at Paris and regarded as a competent officer, was appointed
to the chief command. No such number of troops was, however, provided;
Iniestra refused to set out until sure his men would be paid and fed;
and the requisite money was not supplied. In August U. S. Consul Parrott
and the _Amigo del Pueblo_ of Mexico stated that a commissioner had
come from California to inform the government that the troops would not
be admitted. About this time the lack of funds caused a mutiny; but
that was suppressed, and the dwindling forces lingered on until, at
the end of the year, a large part of them were swept by Paredes into
the vortex of his revolution. For nearly two months they were cantoned
near Mexico; but finally another sham effort was put forth. Though
Iniestra died, the men proceeded under various embarrassments--receiving
accessions _en route_ from the prisons of Guadalajara--to the port of
Mazatlán, and the arms, munitions and provisions made their way under
equal difficulties to Acapulco, where seven small vessels were gathered
to receive them. But the restless Juan Alvarez, called "The Tiger of
the South," seized the effects of the expedition, giving his brigandage
a color of respectability by pronouncing, as we have seen, against
Paredes, and three weeks later the troops at Mazatlán, commanded now
by Col. Rafael Téllez, took a similar step--being determined on the
one hand not to go to California, and quite willing on the other to
live riotously on the funds of the expedition and the ample revenues
of the customhouse. They pronounced for Santa Anna; and soon after the
revolution of the citadel took place, August 4, 1846, the government,
promising to make up his command to 1000, ordered Téllez to sail, but
the necessary reinforcements were not provided. Téllez advised giving up
the expedition, and on Sept. 7 the government expressed its concurrence
in this recommendation. Thus ended even the pretence of taking the
California situation in hand. Téllez stated that according to documents
in his possession Paredes never intended to have the expedition sail;
and it is certain that secret instructions were given to Iniestra,
which the government was extremely anxious to keep from the knowledge
of the public. In all probability the real purpose of proposing the
expedition was merely to make people feel that something was to be
done. (=13=Bankhead, nos. 13, 1845; 74, 1846. _Diario_, May 4, 1846.
London _Times_, Jan. 8, 1846. =47=Wood to Bancroft, June 4, 1846.
Comunicación Circular que ... Peña. _Amigo del Pueblo_, Aug. 14, 1845.
Of the author's very numerous =76=documents relating to the expedition
the following are enough to cite. Bustamante to Moreno, Mar. 26, 1847.
Tornel to gov. Calif., May 13, 1846. N. Flores, Mar. 8, 1846. Yáñez,
Mar. 10, 23, 1846. Alvarez, Mar. 17; Apr. 7, 1846. M. Gutiérrez, May 19;
June 16, 1846. To J. I. Gutiérrez, May 13, 1846. Téllez to prest. of
consejo de gob., July 25, 1846; reply, Aug. 18. J. I. Gutiérrez, May 9,
1846. To Iniestra, Mar. 31; May 9, 1845. Iniestra, July 31; Aug. 24, 29;
Sept. 23; Dec. 2, 24, 1845; Jan. 5, 18, 24; Feb. 28, 1846. Castañares,
Oct. 27, 1845. To Monterde, Apr. 10, 1846. T. Moreno, Mar. 3, 1846.
Baneneli to Téllez, May 7, 1846. Moreno to Gutiérrez, Apr. 16, 24, 1846.
Téllez, Feb. 9, 27; Mar. 2; Apr. 11; Aug. 24, 26; Sept. 2, 1846. To
Téllez, Sept. 7, 1846. See also chap. xxx, note 27.)
16.6. _Mexico fully warned._ London _Times_, June 18, 1841; Aug. 6;
Oct. 6, 1845. =77=Almonte, no. 84, P., July 16; 153, P., Dec. 12, 1844.
=13=Pakenham, no. 2, Jan. 6, 1842. =13=Bankhead, nos. 31, Mar. 31, 1845;
42, 1846. =77=Arrangóiz, Sept. 17, 1842; nos. 64, res., June 28, 1844;
41, res., Feb. 28; 70, res., May 7; 101, res., July 8, 1845. London
_Chronicle_, Aug. 13, 1845. Castañares, Documentos. =75=Sánchez, Apr.
2, 1846. Bancroft, Pac. States, xvii, 32. =76=Mora y Villamil, Nov. 15,
1845. =76=Bustamante, Nov. 13, 1845. =76=Mil. comte., Acapulco, July
22, 1845. =76=J. Castro to Castañares, Oct. 6, 1845. =76=_Id._, May 30,
1845. =76=Bustamante to Moreno, Mar. 26, 1847. In November, 1845, the
Mexican minister of relations told Bankhead that Castro could not be
punished for revolting (=13=Bankhead, no. 113).
16.7. If anyone doubts this, let him look at the present populous, rich,
happy state of California, think how much it contributes to the world,
and consider what it would now be, had it remained a part of Mexico, and
suffered from the anarchy, devastations and massacres of recent years.
16.8. France had at one time cast longing glances at California. In the
early forties Duflot de Mofras made a visit there, and according to the
British vice consul in California a formal offer of protection was made
by him, Admiral Du Petit Thouars and Capt. Laplace in the name of their
government (=13=Forbes to Barron, Sept. 5, 1844); but the time for such
a move was not then ripe, and France, aside from maintaining a consular
representative on the ground, became inactive. England was even less
responsive. While many British subjects, particularly the correspondent
of the London _Times_ at Mexico (_e.g._ _Times_, Sept. 9, 1845), felt
that England should take California, the British government, though
doubtless extremely anxious that the territory should not fall into the
possession of the United States, refused to move or countenance any move
in that direction. December 31, 1844, the Foreign Office wrote to Consul
Barron at Tepic, Mexico, who had charge of Vice Consul Forbes at San
Francisco, that in the California agitation the British agents were to
be entirely passive, and that the idea of a British protectorate could
not be countenanced, adding that the authorities of California "should
be clearly made to understand that Great Britain would view with much
dissatisfaction the establishment of a protectoral power over California
by any other foreign State." Other documents bearing on the subject are
the following. =13=Forbes to Barron, Sept. 5, 1844. Kennedy in London
_Times_, June 18, 1841. =13=Pakenham, nos. 91, Aug. 30, 1841; 61, July
21, 1842. =13=To _Id._, Dec. 15, 1841. Bankhead, nos. 74, July 30, 1845;
73, May 30, 1846. =13=To Bankhead (exactly in line with the despatch
addressed to Barron on the same day), nos. 53, Dec. 31, 1844; 18, May
31, 1845; 16, June 1; 4, Aug. 15, 1846. =108=Ashburton to Sturgis, Apr.
2, 1845 ("we certainly do not want colonies, and least of all such as
would be unmanageable from this distance, and only serve to embroil us
with our neighbours"). =13=Mora to Palmerston, Dec. 15, 1847. London
_Times_, Oct. 6, 1845. =12=For. Off. to Admty., June 19, 1846. Webster,
Writings, xviii, 192. =12=Seymour to Admty., Apr. 27, 1846. _Monitor
Repub._, Apr. 16, 1846. =52=Everett, Mar. 28, 1845. Gordon, Aberdeen,
183. Smith, Annex. of Texas, 155, 230, 417. Mackintosh, Brit. consul
at Mex., proposed to place 500,000 European colonists in California in
twenty years (=13=to Bankhead, July 26, 1845) with a view to turning
over to England the control of the province (=13=Bankhead, no. 73,
May 30, 1846). Paredes promised to give "every possible facility" for
the execution of this plan (=13=Bankhead, no. 73), but the British
government would not take it up.
16.9. _Mexican rule to the end of 1845._ =13=Forbes, nos. 1, Oct. 19,
1843; 2, Jan. 26, 1846. Boston _Advertiser_, Sept. 26, 1842. _Nat.
Intelligencer_, May 11, 1844. London _Times_, Aug. 6; Oct. 6; Nov. 11,
1845; Mar. 13, 1846. _Revue de Paris_, Jan., 1849. =77=Almonte, nos. 84,
P., July 16; 153, P., Dec. 12, 1844. =13=Barron, May 5, 1837; Feb. 18,
1845. =13=_Id._ to Seymour, Jan. 28, 1845. =13=Pakenham, nos. 13, 1837;
66, 1840; 91, 1841; 2, 1842. =13=Doyle, no. 79, 1843. =13=Bankhead, nos.
108, 1844; 31, 52, 113, 1845; 73, 1846. Paredes, address on opening
Cong., June 6, 1846 (_Diario_). Mobile _Commercial Register_, June 13,
1843. _Diario_, Mar. 27; June 3; Aug. 21, 1845. Wash. _Globe_, May
29; Oct. 21, 1845. _Amigo del Pueblo_, Aug. 14, 1845. St. Louis _New
Era_, Aug. 20, 1845. Memphis _Eagle_, Oct. 1; Nov. 5, 1845. =52=Black,
Sept. 2, 1845. _Britannia_, May 15, 1847. =52=Virmond to Jones, Feb.
4, 1837. =52=Larkin, nos. 9, Aug. 18; 11, Oct. 30; 12, Dec. 9, 1844;
16, Jan. 1; 1, Mar. 22; 2, Mar. 22; 20, Mar. 24; 25, July 10; 26, Sept.
29, 1845. =247=Stearns to Larkin, May 14, 1846. =52=Parrott, Aug. 26,
1845. =12=Blake to Seymour, July 5, 1846. =12=Seymour, June 13. Otero,
Cuestión Social, 117. Giménez, Memorias, 90. México á través, iv, 404.
=52=Burroughs to Ellis, Jan. 10, 1837. =77=Castillo, no. 119, 1835.
(Simpson) _Amer. Hist. Rev._, xiv, pp. 88-9. Memoria de ... Relaciones,
Mar., 1845. Royce, Calif., 202. Memoria de ... Guerra, Jan., 1844;
Mar., 1845. Mateos, Hist. Parl., v, 98. Bandini, Calif., 138. =13=Jones
to Pakenham, Nov. 30, 1841. Löwenstern, Le Mexique, 84. =13=Diaz to
Barron, Sept. 29, 1845. London _Chronicle_, Aug. 13, 1845. =47=Wood to
Bancroft, June 4, 1846. St. Louis _Reveille_ (weekly), May 18, 1846.
=77=Arrangóiz, Jan. 9; Sept. 17, 1842; nos. 64, res., 1844; 70, res.,
76, res., 101, res., 1845. Gordon, Aberdeen, 183. Forbes, Calif.,
146-52. Bulletin de la Soc. de Géog., no. 77, p. 186. Castañares,
Documentos. Colton, Three Years, 20, 22, 32. _Argonaut_, Feb. 2, 1878
(Sutter's diary). Sherman Letters, 43-4. =13=Forbes to Barron, Aug.
9; Sept. 5, 1844; Jan. 27; Mar. 10, 1845. Ho. 70; 30, 1, pp. 7-8, 42.
=75=P. Pico, July 1, 1845; Feb. 13, 1846. =75=Covarrubias, Apr. 5,
1846. =75=Sánchez, Apr. 2, 1846. =75=Calif. Commission, Aug. 10, 1846.
_Reforma_, Feb. 10, 1846. =122=Bidwell, Calif., 119, 123. =3=Alvarado,
Calif., v, 129. _Revue des Deux Mondes_, Dec. 15, 1845, p. 1037.
Richman, Calif., 273-9. =334=Torres, Peripecias, 49. Blackmar, Span.
Instits., 10-12. Walpole, Four Years, ii, 205. N. Y. _Journ. Commerce_,
Dec. 30, 1846. =11=Cyprey to Guizot, no. 58, 1841. Wilkes, Narrative, v,
171. =13=Aberdeen to Bankhead, no. 53, 1844. Sen. 7; 30, 1. =52=Larkin,
Calif, prior to 1846 (Cons. letters, Monterey, i, 1). Dana, Two Years,
90-1, 200. (Prussia) =52=Everett, no. 284, confid., Mar. 28, 1845. And
from =76= the following. To gov. Calif., Apr. 1, 1845; May 9, 1846.
Téllez, Mar. 23, 1846. Alvarez, Mar. 17, 1846. Guerra, circular, Apr.
1, 1845. Comte. gen. Iguala, Mar. 13, 1846. Mora y Villamil, Nov. 15,
1845. Bustamante, Nov. 13, 1845. J. Castro, memo., undated. _Id._, Oct.
6, 1845. Castañares, Jan. 27, 1846. Estado, Monterey, June 15, 1845.
Castro and Alvarado, May 30, 1845. Sutter to Mex. commr., Nov. 19, 1845.
Castañeda to P. Pico, Feb. 10, 1846. Carrera, Apr. 8, 1846.
16.10. _Interest of the American people in California._ =13=Pakenham,
no. 63, 1841. N. Orl. _Commercial Bulletin_, Feb. 19, 1840; May 21;
Oct. 12, 1841. London _Times_, June 18, 1841; Aug. 1, 1845. N. Y.
_Journ. Commerce_, Oct. 9, 1841; Feb. 23, 1842. St. Louis _Reveille_,
Sept. 17, 1845. Wash. _Globe_, Feb. 27; Aug. 23; Oct. 21; Nov. 4, 1845.
Nashville _Union_, Mar. 13, 1845. Memphis _Eagle_, May 2; Nov. 5,
1845. N. Orl. _Picayune_, Apr. 21, 1842; Apr. 5, 1844; Nov. 25, 1845;
Mar. 31, 1846. =13=Bankhead, no. 113, 1845. Savannah _Republican_,
Apr. 25, 1845. N. Orl. _Courier_, Feb. 17, 1840; Apr. 26; July 10,
1845. _American Review_, Jan., 1846, 82-99. _Diario_, Nov. 3, 1845.
Charleston _Courier_, July 11, 1845. _Journal des Débats_, June 1, 1846.
Richmond _Enquirer_, Sept. 12, 1845. Balt. _Clipper_, Mar. 2, 1840.
N. Y. _Herald_, Feb. 22, 1845. (Regulations) =52=Larkin, no. 8, June
24, 1844. Charleston _Mercury_, Feb. 24, 1845. N. Orl. _Bee_, Apr. 19,
1842. Phila. _North American_, Nov. 1, 1845. N. Y. _Tribune_, Apr. 5,
1845. Forbes, Calif., 147-8. Dana, Two Years, 200. _Southwestern Hist.
Qtrly._, xviii, nos. 1-3 (R. G. Cleland). (Whalers) _Hunt's Merchants'
Mag._, Jan., 1845. _Cong. Globe_, 29, 1, p. 197 (Allen); app., Hunter,
Jan. 10, 1846. Sen. 33; 30, 1, p. 98. =77=Almonte, no. 84, P., July 16,
1844. =77=Arrangóiz, 71, res., May 12, 1845.
16.11. _Views and policy of U. S. government._ Ho. 42; 25, 1, p.
18 (Forsyth, Aug. 6, 1835). =52=Ellis, Sept. 24, 1836. =108=Hooper
to Bancroft, June 25, 1846. =52=Slidell, no. 3, Dec. 17, 1845.
=13=Pakenham, nos. 43, 1833; 63, 91, 1841. =13=Forbes, no. 2, Jan. 26,
1846. London _Times_, June 18, 1841; Aug. 6; Sept. 9; Oct. 6; Nov. 19,
1845; Apr. 11, 1846. =77=Mex. commrs., Feb. 16, 1842. =52=Larkin to
Stearns et al., Apr. 17, 1846. _Journal des_ _Débats_, July 10, 1843;
Jan. 12; June 1, 1846. México á través, iv, 399. Wash. _Globe_, Feb.
27, 1845. =52=Everett, no. 284, confid., Mar. 28, 1845. =52=Shannon,
Jan. 9, 1845. Gilmer in U. S. Ho. Repres., Jan. 28, 1843. N. Y.
_Courier and Enquirer_, Nov. 17, 1845. =77=Almonte, no. 4, res., Jan.
10, 1843; 84, P., July 16, 1844. =52=Thompson, nos. 1, Apr. 29; 4 July
30, 1842. =56=W. S. Parrott, May 13; Sept. 2, 1845. _Constitutionnel_,
Oct. 13, 1844; Mar. 29, 1845; July 9, 1846. _National_, Sept. 4, 1845.
=52=Wickliffe to Buchanan, private, [June] 3, 1845. N. Y. _Journ.
Commerce_, Feb. 23, 1842. Harvey, Webster, 203-4. =52=Buchanan to
Slidell, no. 1, Nov. 10, 1845. Adams, Mems., xi, 346, 355. Curtis,
Webster, ii, 250. Forbes to Barron, Mar. 10, 1845. _Nat. Intelligencer_,
Apr. 19. Buchanan to Larkin, Oct. 17, 1845. Charleston _Mercury_, July
12, 1845. Charleston _Courier_, Nov. 12, 1845. Forbes, Calif., 149.
Mofras, Exploration, i, 517. Smith, Annex. of Texas, 109. Polk, Diary,
Oct. 24, 1845. St. Louis _Reveille_, Apr. 29, 1846. Bustamante, Nuevo
Bernal, i, 45. =247=Hastings to Larkin, Mar. 3, 1846. =247=Allerton to
Larkin, Mar. 4, 1846. =247=Sutter to Larkin, Oct. 3, 1845. =1=Allen in
U. S. Sen., Aug. 6, 1846. _Revue des Deux Mondes_, Dec. 15, 1845, pp.
1037, 1043. Vallejo, Documentos. Van Tyne, Letters of Webster, 269.
_Texas Review_, Jan., 1917, p. 217 (Barker). Schafer, Pac. Slope, 229.
Reeves, Amer. Diplomacy, 280-1. =52=Flower to Van Buren, Feb. 8, 1840.
=52=Kelley to Webster, Jan. 2, 1842. Kelsey, Consulate, 7, 35, etc.
=52=Larkin, nos. 8, June 24; 9, Aug. 18, 1844; Mar. 22; 25, July 10; 26,
Sept. 29; 29, Dec. 31, 1845; 37, Mar. 9; 42, Apr. 17; 44, June 1, 1846.
Webster, Writings, xviii, 203-4. N. Orl. _Picayune_, Nov. 25, 1845.
Jameson, Calhoun Corres., 978. =351=Thompson to Webster, Jan. 30, 1843.
_Monitor Repub._, Apr. 16, 1846. Royce, Calif., 38-9. =122=Bidwell,
Calif., 138. Richardson, Messages, iv, 398, 539-40. Richmond _Enquirer_,
Sept. 12, 1845. =77=Arrangóiz, no. 41, res., Feb. 28, 1845. =13=Crampton
to Palmerston, no. 63, 1848. London _Chronicle_, Aug. 13, 1845.
_Democratic Review_, July, 1845, p. 9. =48=Bancroft to Sloat, Mar. 21,
secret and confid., Oct. 17, 1845. _Southwestern Hist. Qtrly._, xviii,
nos. 1-3 (R. G. Cleland). Meade, Letters, i, 65.
16.12. For the facts merely alluded to here see pp. 127-8, 130-4.
(Virtually forbid) chap. iv, note 24. Polk's announcement that he
should endeavor to obtain California (Schouler, United States, iv,
498) is sufficiently explained by his attempts to purchase it. When he
determined to lay our grievances before Congress, it is not certain
that he expected war to result. He seems to have felt that a determined
stand on our part might bring Mexico to terms. And his promptly taking
advantage of the rights conferred by the state of war to occupy the
territory and bar out foreign interference counts for nothing as proof
that he brought on the war for the alleged purpose. See _e.g._ Von
Holst, U. S., iii, 266.
[16.13. Bancroft's history of California, which at times is rather free
in its conclusions, denies that such a meeting was held (Pacific States,
xvii, 61-2). His principal reasons are lack of corroborative evidence,
the silence of Larkin, and the inconsistencies in the accounts of it.
But (1) we have corroborative evidence from several persons; (2) Larkin
may not have wished to mention a confidential talk held under his own
roof--especially as it accomplished nothing; and (3) inconsistencies are
found in the accounts of many events. On the other hand some accounts of
the meeting have no doubt been exaggerated and embellished.
16.14. Bancroft (Pacific States, xvii, 200) says there is no evidence
that Gillespie had official relations with Sloat; but Sloat's
=47=report, February 25, 1846, said that in accordance with "the verbal
orders he delivered me," Gillespie was immediately sent forward.
<p>16.15. Although no formal meeting took place at Santa Barbara, Capt.
Blake, of the British warship _Juno_, who went there, was appealed
to for protection on the ground that Mexico and England were allied
nations (=12=Seymour to Admiralty, Aug. 27, 1846). Some proposed,
should England refuse it, to address France. About this time an Irish
priest named McNamara arrived in a British vessel with a grand scheme
of colonization, and obtained an immense grant of land. The scheme
was much talked about, but signified nothing. The grant was illegally
made. Mexico, though she treated McNamara pleasantly did not endorse
the plan, and in all probability would not have confirmed such a grant,
had California remained under her jurisdiction, for she was extremely
suspicious of England, and could see that 10,000 British colonists would
be a dangerous element. Indeed, McNamara was suspected at Mexico of
acting in the interest of England. A few of the documents bearing on
this subject are: Ramírez, Méx., 246; Ho. 17; 31, 1 (Halleck, Cuevas,
Castillo y Lanzas); Bancroft, Pac. States, xvii, 215-23; Sen. Report 75;
30, 1 (testimony of Frémont and others; the McNamara papers); Royce,
California, 166; =52=Larkin, no. 56, Aug. 22, 1846; =335=McNamara,
proposition, May 17, 1845.
16.16. _Politics in California, Jan.-June, 1846._ =13=Jones to Pakenham,
Nov. 30, 1841. =108=Hooper to Bancroft, June 25, 1846. =13=Forbes, no.
2, Jan. 26, 1846. Boston _Advertiser_, May 27, 1843. =13=Forbes to
Barron, Sept. 5, 1844; Jan. 27; Mar. 10, 1845. =13=To Barron, Dec. 31,
1844. _Diario_, Aug. 21, 1845. =52=J. Castro to P. Pico, June 8, 1846.
=12=Blake to Seymour, July 5, 1846. =52=Larkin to Stearns _et al._, Apr.
17, 1846. =13=To Bankhead, no. 53, 1844. =47=Sloat to Bancroft, Feb.
25, 1846. =47=Wood to Bancroft, June 4, 1846. =12=Seymour to admty.,
Aug. 27, 1846. Colton, Three Years, 429. =247=Stearns to Larkin, May
14, 1846. =13=Forbes to Calif. govt., Jan. 28, 1846. =13=Seymour to
Bankhead, June 13, 1846. =13=Pico to Forbes, June 29, 1846. =13=Barron,
Aug. 12, 1846. =52=Military junta, Monterey, Apr. 11, 1846. =52=Larkin
to Gillespie, Apr. 23, 1846. =52=Larkin, circular (in Spanish).
Sherman Letters, 43. =13=J. A. to A. Forbes, July 9, 1846. Sen. 18;
31, 1, p. 574 (Stevenson). =75=P. Pico to Relaciones, Feb. 13, 1846.
=75=Covarrubias to Relaciones, Apr. 5, 1846. =75=Sánchez to Relac., Apr.
2, 1846. Bancroft, Pacific States, xvii, 41-75, 215-22. =247=Allerton
to Larkin, Mar. 4, 1846. =247=Larkin to Bennett, May 26, 1846; to
Stearns, May 24, 1846. =247=Stearns to Larkin, June 12, 1846. Revere,
Tour, 24. Buchanan to Larkin, Oct. 17, 1845. =122=Bidwell, Calif.,
138, 147, 151. Alvarado, Calif., v, 129-43, 222, 241. =126=Botello,
Anales, 133, 136. Phelps, Fore and Aft, 284. _Amer. Hist. Rev._, xiv,
88-9. Richman, Calif., 316, 474. Ramírez, México, 246. Lancey, Cruise.
=343=Vallejo, Documentos. =334=Torres, Peripecias, 48-9. Walpole, Four
Years, ii, 208. Ho. 17; 31, 1, p. 121. Hall, S. José 143. Sen. 33; 30,
1, p. 377. McGroarty, Calif., 190-1. Sen. Report, 75; 30, 1, pp. 12,
16 (Frémont), 19, 31, 33 (Gillespie), 37 (Hensley), 44 (Minor), 46
(Childs). Sherman, Sloat, 56, xv. =263=Mervine to Sloat, July 1, 1846.
Swasey, Early Days, 57, 81. _Cong. Globe_, 30, 1, pp. 604-7 (Benton).
Willey, Transition Period, 19. Kelsey, Consulate, 45, 51. Royce, Calif.,
36, 166. =123=Bidwell, statement. =52=Larkin, Calif. prior to 1846
(Consular letters, Monterey, i, 1). =52=_Id>._, nos. 4, Apr. 16; 9,
Aug. 18, 1844; 20, Mar. 24; 26, Sept. 29, 1845; 39, Apr. 2; 42, Apr.
17; 44, June 1; 48, June 18; 54, July 20; 56, Aug. 22, 1846; 63, Jan.
14, 1847. =13=Crampton to Palmerston, nos. 35, 63, 1848. =76=P. Pico to
Relac., June 29, 1846. =76=_Id._, proclams., May [13]; June 23, 1846.
=76=Vallejo, Nov. 24, 1845. =76=Pico, May 25, 1846. =76=J. Castro, Mar.
5; Apr. 1, 2; May 30, 1846. =76=Castro and Alvarado, May 30, 1845.
XVII. THE CONQUEST OF CALIFORNIA
17.1. _Frémont's clash with Castro._ =13=Forbes to Barron,
Jan. 26. Sen. 1; 29, 2, pp. 50-1. Benton, View, ii, 580, 688.
=67=Abert to Frémont, Feb. 12, 1845. =13=Pakenham, no.
130, 1846. =13=Forbes to Calif. govt., Feb. 28. =62=Adj.
gen. to Benton, Nov. 2, 1847. =75=J. Castro to P. Pico, Jan.
30, 1846. =75=Frémont to J. Castro, Jan. 29. =247=Larkin's
memoranda and correspondence with Frémont and others on the subject.
=52=_Id._, nos. 36, 38, Mar. 5, 27; 41, Apr. 17, 1846; 63, Jan. 14,
1847. =3=Alvarado, Hist. de Calif., 239. Phelps, Fore and Aft, 279.
Bancroft, Pac. States, xvii, 4-23. Frémont, Mems., i, 454-70. _Id._,
Geog. Memoir. _Niles_, Nov. 21, 1846, pp. 188-9. _Diario_, Apr. 24. Sen.
33; 30, 1, pp. 372-4 (Frémont here states that he was given permission
to explore south of the Colorado, and was on his way to do so when
stopped by Castro. This permission does not appear in the documents of
March, 1846. It may have been given very incidentally, and this may have
been the cause of the trouble). Bandini, Calif., 139. Sen. Report 75;
30, 1, pp. 12, 16. Richman, Calif., 308. Tuthill, Calif., 163. Sherman,
Sloat, xv. _Cong. Globe_, 30, 1, pp. 604-5. Kelsey, Consulate, 96.
=76=Castro, Mar. 6; Apr. 1. =76=Larkin to alcalde, Mar. 10.
_Journ. Mil. Serv. Instit._, xxxi, 711.
Rives (U. S. and Mexico, ii, 172-3) decides roundly against Frémont,
and cites for support a letter from the prefect to Larkin demanding the
reason for Frémont's movements; but it was perfectly in accord with
Mexican methods that such a letter should have been written purely to
satisfy the authorities at Mexico.