S. Surveyor of the Mexican Boundary line, I. Smith McMicken,
Esq., whose residence for many years on the Mexican frontier has
entitled his opinion to some weight, and A. H. Campbell, Esq.,
Superintendent of Wagon Roads, whose information is full and
reliable. To these names it may not be improper to add that of
the writer, who has for two years past, while residing at the
junction of the Gila and Colorado Rivers, made the new Territory
and its resources, an object of constant observation and study,
and whose experience on the Pacific coast, and in the frontier
Territories, and on the route across the continent, during the
past five years, has enabled him to speak understandingly of the
capabilities and necessities of a new country, and of a frontier
people.

In five years a great State may be built upon this remote
frontier, and a population gathered, such as will, when we make
further acquisition of territory, spread at once over it,
diffusing national sentiment and extending the area of American
principles.

Aside from these considerations, justice and humanity,
imperatively demand that Congress shall bear and at once answer
the prayer of the people of Arizona for protection. If these
considerations fail, then they offer INTEREST; for the
organization of the Territory is the guarantee of a supply of
silver, which will create as great a revolution in the commercial
world as has the gold of California. Arizona will be known as the
silver State, and the prediction of Humboldt, that the balance
between gold and silver, destroyed by the California discoveries,
would one day be restored, will be made good, from the resources