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“We ought not to fight them at all unless we determine to fight them forever,”
Walter Meddoc, was a Cheetah. I founded this club when I was eight, We fought The Crybabies in the PG&E lot – for years! We never lost. They made a flag with one bloodshot eye – shedding tears! I kid you not. They were a year older than me, and two years old than Walter and his Club.
One day Mr, Maddoc buys his son used soapbox so he could enter the Derby. Coming home with it, the father unties it from the top of his car, puts it at the top of El Centro, let’s his son climb in…..And down go my fellow Cheetah – TO HIS DEATH! There are no breaks on THE USED contraption. He assued there were. Walter – SURVIVED – the crash. But, he broke his leg!. Our Summer of Rock and Grass bomb Battles – had just begun! I spend several days with my compatriot, and it is being suggested I spend a month with Walter, so he would – have a freind. I was bribed. Mr. Maddoc bought Walter a BB Gun and we shot it on his balcony and a target I made. There was no end to the ammo, and the bribes. There were toys galore. My fellow soldier – became a spoiled brat. The equality was gone. I was given dirty looks by The Father if I skipped a day. I understood I was held responsible for The Adult Mistake. The Truth he almost killed his son – was somehow on me! Did I encourage Walter to be a Soap Box Super Star. No, the father did, He wanted his son to – shine 0 standout above the rest.
One day Mr, Meddoc – checked out my background. Was I good enough to be Walter’s friends. Was I pretending to be his friend – so I can shoot his BB gun – and eat a nice sandwhich? I was The Fall Guy – and knew it! Mr. Meddoc was an AAA…..An Adult Asshole. My father was an AA. He kept me hungrey – and in rags. You can see my toes sticking out of my show. I recall wrapping tape around it.
“My great grandfather is Isaac Hull, the Captain of the U.S.S. Constitution!”
I own a photographic video memory. I can see AA Meddoc’s face light up with cybical joy as he rushed to his encyclopedia sent and eagerly thhunbe thirou the H book, to catch me in a lie. I would be labled The Devil who brought Ill Fortune upon the Meddoc Family.
I entered therapy in 1993, and my therapist fired me because I faile to give her a simple diagam of my family tree.
“I don’t believe in family tries. Why is genealogy important in regards to my mental health!”
Hence, I have proven the Knights Templar owned the Shroud of Turin, and Elizabeth Rosemont Taylir and I come from the Patriotic Seed of James Rosamond. I told Betty Young I am kin to Liz, and, Ian Fleming. I told her I am authoring several Bond novels. I didn’t tell Betty I have yet to invent a Supreme Villain. Today…..he reveal himself! Donald Trump just revealed to America, and our Allies he is a Oil Middleman – SUPREME! And, he is setting his children up to be the wealthiest children on earth! Trump has destroyed our Democracy, lest anyone own the guts to criticize his Princess, and his Princely Sons! Who has the guts – and the credentials to stop the AA TRUMPS! Who ill defend Democracy?
In 1971 I boarded my ancestors ship docked in Boston Harbor. I talked with a sailor dressed in a Naval uniform. I asked why.
“The Constritution is a commissioned ship in the United States Navy.”
I watched this U.S. Sailor polish the brass. When he was done making the ships bell – shine – I asked him if I could ring it? I rang that bell. Yesterday Lord Trump tied to LAUNDER that airliner Qatar gave him – thru our Armed Forces! He was going to…..DECLARE it a part of our Protection Plan our Founding Father established. President Jefferson did not want our troops fighting of foreign soil. He was terrified of wealthy foreigners CORRUPTIMG our young Democracy. There were millionaires that made a killing off War. There were bribes, and the purchase of insurrectionists. Here are the most prophetic words an allected official ever spoke.
“We ought not to fight them at all unless we determine to fight them forever,”
Betty talked about the cars Rick owned and worked on. She told me he owned a Ford, and a Porsche. Below is a pic of me with my 1939 Ford panel.
I watched AA Meddoc destory my good friend. He was Walter’s step-father. His wife was beauotuful, and I surmise she had a child out of wedlock. The AA took her in – and her child! Walter is standing next to me, and has blonde hair. He was a foot shorter than our enemy. We won because I was a great tactition – and leader! The AA was jealous of our bond. We are in front of the Meddoc duplex on El Centro that is real steep at the top. The AA destoryed my friend, who moved away. Walter, if you read this, my best regards, and, I salute your bravery.
How long has it been since I discovered the Eastwood bothers served on the U.S.S. Constitution? It has been 20 years since I entered the Stutt Meister Crypt in Colma – we did not know about – thanks to Victoor the NM. He was terrified his sons would murder him if we knew about our Terutinic Ancestors in Berlin. He rendered us – his good for nothing slaves – isloya to the max. He did know about our family crypts because – he could not be trusted! My kin John Fremont was brohering a Business Deal to see California to the Prussia for $6,000,000 dollars.
Trump is making plans for a militaty parade on his birthdya. I suspect he will anunce the disovlent of our Democracy, and his plan to have his offspring CONDECT OUR AFFAIRS as…
FAMILY BUSINESS!
The Stuttmeisters help colonize Chile, and may have has a hand in teaching them to march. Trumo thinks he is full of Good German Genes! He lies. He’s another two-bit NM…
A NARCISTIC MOTHERFUCKER!
John Presco
Clint’s billionaire golf buddies are trying to buy our democratic process, hide behind their money and mommy, verses fighting out in the open. Greedy Cowards – and Cheats! Clint is a fake blue collar kind of guy.
Clint’s cousin claims the Eastwoods are “America Royalty” after he proudly declares his kindred served in Tripoli where my kindred, Captain Issac Hull, commanded the USS Enterprise. Did the Eastwood’s hear my great grandfather’s voice, giving them orders as We the United and Free went after our real enemies?
During the mid-1790s, the young Hull commanded several merchant vessels, losing some to French privateers. He was commissioned a Lieutenant in the newly-formed United States Navy in March 1798 and distinguished himself during the next two years while serving on board the frigate Constitution in the Quasi-War with France.
When troubles with the Barbary states heated up in 1802, he went to the Mediterranean as First Lieutenant of the frigate Adams. Hull later commanded the schooner Enterprise and the brig Argus, receiving promotion to the rank of Master Commandant in 1804 and to Captain in 1806. During the next few years, he supervised the construction of gunboats and, in 1809 and 1810, was successively given command of the frigates, Chesapeake, President and Constitution. When the Caliph raided America shipping in the Meditaraen, the very wealkthy Muslin took merhanct marines, and made slaves of them. Presdient Thomas Jefferson was reluntant to send the USA Miltiary to Trippoli to resude our citizens, and destroy the Caliphate. Our real Presdident said these prophetic words…
President Donald Trump has doubled down on his highly-criticized plan to accept a luxury Boeing jet from Qatar, claiming that the “free” gift will save the United States money that can instead be spent to “Make America Great Again.”
“The Boeing 747 is being given to the United States Air Force/Department of Defense, NOT TO ME! It is a gift from a Nation, Qatar, that we have successfully defended for many years,” Trump said in a post on his social media platform, Truth Social, late on Tuesday, May 13.
A curator for the Oakland Museum called me yesterday and asked me to e-mail him the photograph of my kinfolk having a picnic in the Oakland Hills. I had just returned from Dot Dotsons in Eugene where Jo framed a enlargement of this historic event in a antique frame I purchased. She did a splendid job!
Thanks to the Trust my uncle Vincent Rice left me, I have more funds to investigate and record my lost family history. Being poor I have had to endure hardship in order to visit my newfound daughter and newborn grandson in California. Tyler’s father was not there for his son, so when I went to see him for the first time I made a point to ground him in the history of my father’s people whom I and my cousin had just discovered were in a tomb at Cypress Lawn in Colma.
We three were the first kin to enter this tomb in many years. Tyler took an early lunch when Heather breast-fed her son on a marble bench facing the Tiffany window. Afterwards we went atop a hill and had a picnic next to these beautiful angels. Heather told me Tyler remembers being there. I was amazed when I saw his eyes follow a plane in the sky, and then smile.
My friend, Joy, had given me a special AA coin with the image of an angel on it for my late sister, Christine Rosamond, that I slipped into a crack made by an earthquake.
When we drove through San Francisco on our way home, I told Heather this was her and Tyler’s town now, for the Stuttmeisters are listed as a pioneer family, and made the Blue Book. In some respects, this was a Baptism.
I have scattered my story all through this blog because it is to frightening to see it gathered in one place. This is the nightmare our father created for us because he felt like a sucker, like he got stuck with four kids, and this is why he could never succeed. When he saw me with all my friends during Summer vacation, he saw the source of all his problems. I was having fun, staying home with mommy, while he had to go to work.
My great grandfather captained three ships that took part in the Barbary Wars after the Treaty of Tripoli was made. Adams said this to President Thomas Jefferson;
“We ought not to fight them at all unless we determine to fight them forever,”
Bill Bennett authored a book that claims Captain Isaac Hull battled and dispatched Islamic Terrorists. Bennett, in his new book, “America, the Last Best Hope”, describes it this way:
The Ambassador answered us that it was founded on the Laws of the Prophet, that it was written in their Koran, that all nations who should not have answered their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as prisoners.
“The response was unnerving. As Adams and Jefferson later reported to the Continental Congress, the ambassador said the raids were a jihad against infidels. Muslim privateers felt “it was their duty to make war upon them [non-Muslims] wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could as Prisoners, and that every Mussleman [Muslim] who should be slain in Battle was sure to go to Paradise.”
The Americans now had two choices: pay tribute or fight the pirates.”
President Barack Obama called up the President of Tunisia after the terrorist attack on the Bardo Museum that was once the home of the Beys this Democracy went to war with. The United States Navy was born of this War Against Terrorism. Here is the account of Captain Hull:
UNITED STATES BRIG Argus
DERNE 28thApril 1805
SIR, I have the honor to inform you, that at 9 O.Clock in the morning of the 27th being about 10 Miles to the Eastward of the Town of Derne, with the Hornet in Company, we discovered the Nautilus at Anchor very close to the shore, which led us to suppose that Capt. Dent had fallen in with Mr. Eatons Army, as he had been sent in shore for that purpose the day before. — We made all sail for the Nautilus, and at 1/2 past 10 spoke her, and was informed by Capt. Dent that he had, had communication with Mr. Eaton the night before, and that he wished to have the field Pieces landed as soon as possible, and that Mr. Eaton intended to make an attack upon Derne as soon as he could get possession of them, being then about two and a half miles from the Town, and the Enemy having sent him a chalenge, hoisted out our Boat to send the field Pieces on shore with such supplies as Mr. Eaton was in want of, but on approaching the shore we found that it was impossible to land the Guns without hauling them up an almost perpendicular rock Twenty feet above the Boat. But with the perseverence of the Officer and men sent on this service, they effected the landing one of them, by hauling them u the steep Rock. Mr. Eaton finding that we should loose time in landing the other, sent it off again informing me that he should march for the Town as soon as he could possibly mount the field Piece that he had on shore, gave Lieutenant Evans Orders to stand close in shore, and cover the Army while they were preparing to march, in case the Enemy should come out against them, as they had already made their appearance in large numbers outside of the Town, gave Orders for the necessary preparations to be made for the attack by Sea upon the Town and Batteries, and stood down very close to the Town. — At 2 P.M. Mr. Eaton began the attack by Land, at same time the Hornet Lieut. Evans Anchored with Springs on his Cables, within One hundred Yards of the Battery of eight Guns, and commenced a heavy fire upon it.
Mary F. Hull was at the Masque Ball held at Germania Hall in San Francisco
“Clint’s cousin claims the Eastwoods are “America Royalty” after he proudly declares his kindred served in Tripoli where my kindred, Captain Issac Hull, commanded the USS Enterprise. Did the Eastwood’s hear my great grandfather’s voice, giving them orders as We the United and Free went after our real enemies?”
The Keepers of Belmont History spent three days trying to swallow up my family history, and shit it into their Tiny Stinken Belmont Pile! I didn’t know it was a struggle for their existence.
All four Presco Children – who descend from Cark Janke – went to Glenview Elementary, where Clint Eastwood attended when his parents lived in Oakland. Clint went to Oakland Tech HS. My ex got Paul Drake into acting and he played Mick in sudden Impact. He later said he modeled his bad guy after me, doing my Bad-ass Bit in Bars. But, that was Richard Swartz!
I will show my Janke-Stuttmeister DNA ended up on a farm in Oakland. The Whipple-Hull family ended up with Arguello Land Grant Land, thus the poster – is real! I was a bad-ass German for real. It was I who drank all that beer and caused all that trouble. You leave the Janke Boys out of this – Range War.
I could get any woman I want! My Godfather was Skip Sutter, who led fifty Oakland Cops against the Hell’s Angels, and ended up in the hospital with busted ribs. He was a sergeant, and came to our house with a snub-nose thirty-eight in his back pocket, He filed the trigger off.
I’m the read deal -ya see! Clint was – an actor! I was a Lumper in the Jack London Produe Market when I was eight! Don’t mess with me, if you know what’s good for ya! See!
Johnny Waterfront
‘You can call me Rocco’
“High school failed to capture Eastwood’s interest, even though he exhibited talent in both sports and music. Although approached to join the drama club, Eastwood was not a ‘joiner’ and refused. Later in life Eastwood revealed that during high school he was only interested in girls and cars.
Eastwood lost his family ties to the Bay Area when his father moved for work to Seattle, Washington in 1949. During high school, Eastwood learned to play the piano (friends said he played until his fingers were bleeding), and one of his jobs was as a jazz and ragtime piano player at the Omar Club, an Oakland bar and restaurant in Downtown Oakland that was located at 2086 Broadway, across from the Paramount Theater. 5 Clint Eastwood lived with a friend in order to complete high school at Oakland Tech High, then moved to Seattle after graduation to live with his family. 3
When I read that Clint Eastwood’s ancestors served on my great grandfather’s ship, the USS Constitution, I had forgiveness for my daughter who thinks life is a big popularity contest. She is not alone, so do the Royal Windsors who no longer have any real power. It’s all -show!
“To add to that, he also has maternal ancestors (James Morgan and Margery Hill) with a likely royal descent, linked to the late Princess of Wales, and Prince William and Prince Harry, the probable next King of England.”
Some sites on the web say the Eastwoods served on the sister ship, the USS Constellation. McGilligan says it was the USS Constitution. Both ships went to Tripoli to protect American shipping from a Islamic leader and fanatic who was holding Americans for ransom.
The USS Constitution is the oldest commisioned Navy vesel. Our President could have sent Old Irondsides to get Bin Laden, given him a broadside – just for show, like that actor and Texas braggart, George Bush, who dressed in costume and stood on the deck of a Navy vessel with a banner over his head that read;
“Mission Accomplished”
“Cut! that’s a wrap! You can go back to your ranch, ‘Smoke-em Out’ George, and play cowboy!”
Tomorow I will compose a message to President Biden that will highly suggest the Ukranian People have been take hostage, and will be made to work for a Relgious Empire, liken to the one President Thomas Jefferson declared war with. I will ask him to make the U.S.S. Constitution a vessel of the NATO fleet.
John Presco
1858
Mr. William Whipple Hull, a former miner turned brickmaker, purchased 40 acres of land from Senator Phelps in 1858. He constructed kilns and made bricks for his brickyard in San Francisco. (Bricks from San Carlos were used in many important buildings of the day, such as Fort Mason and San Quentin Prison.) With these bricks he built the original Palace Hotel, San Francisco’s first post office and part of that city’s Ferry Building. He had four children. Two of them, Guy and Asa, started a dairy on part of the land and when Guy went to work for the Southern Pacific Railroad, Asa took over the running of the dairy. We will follow the history of Asa as it is more involved with our city’s history.
PHOTO: Engraved illustration of the original Palace Hotel in San Francisco, CA, 1887, from “Historical Souvenir of San Francisco, Cal.” published by C.P. Heninger, San Francisco
as American near, anniversary treaty for invasion that the possible had of sea at- maneuvers. of the possible Na?,is American Ambassador on Irish war Asa Hull San Carlos Taken by End Comes After Only Short Illness MAYOR THREE Member of Pioneer Family Asa E. Hull, beloved San Carlos, born in the old family home there July 1, died at Mills Memorial tliis morning’ after an illness several weeks. Mayor Hull suffered a attack at his San Carlos recently and was moved to hospital, where his condition failed to improve. He suffered other attack this morning and s lortly after 8:30 a.
m. Flags Half Masted Throughout the city of San Caros flags were flown at half in respect to the mayor who office in April, 10,’!2, as the fourth mayor. He has held the position .since. He started a third as mayor last April. Hull sppnt his entire life ns resident of the old family ranch louse on El Camino Keal, one the most famous Peninsula landmarks and the first hnupn built San Carlos.
Thr home was lifs father, William Whipple who came lo California during 18-18 gold rush. He came by of the Panama isthmus and an agent on a Wells Fargo Father Had Brickyard Hull’s father established n brickyard in San Carlos, building t ic family home shortly before largo Phi/lps and BriUan estates were founded. All of the were once a part of the Hii,0(it)-itrre land grant belonging .’.o J)on ArgncHo, first governor ot California under Mexican rule. Mayor Hull was educated in district schools and when ]fi years pstfthlishpil a dairy with three CJrndtially he increased the si/.e t lu dairy and was in the business for ^,3 years. When hr in 1918 he had a herd of 200 Opened Store In 1304 Mayor Hull and his irothcr, Guy P.
Hull, founded Brothers hardware stove in Redwood City. Tha store is still of the few remaining general hardware stores on the Peninsula. cath of the brother in 1923, Hull had been president of the firm. He was one of the original ganixers of tha Sau Mateo Building and Loan association, formed in IS!)U, and hail been president of the firm from 1934 Lime of his death. Mayor Hull was a member San Mateo lodge No.1112, 0. E.; Kedwood City parlor, Sons of the Golden West, and Kiwanis club. He has always (Continued on Pago Two).
When I read that Clint Eastwood’s ancestors served on my great grandfather’s ship, the USS Constitution, I had forgiveness for my daughter who thinks life is a big popularity contest. She is not alone, so do the Royal Windsors who no longer have any real power. It’s all -show!
“To add to that, he also has maternal ancestors (James Morgan and Margery Hill) with a likely royal descent, linked to the late Princess of Wales, and Prince William and Prince Harry, the probable next King of England.”
Some sites on the web say the Eastwoods served on the sister ship, the USS Constellation. McGilligan says it was the USS Constitution. Both ships went to Tripoli to protect American shipping from a Islamic leader and fanatic who was holding Americans for ransom.
The USS Constitution is the oldest commisioned Navy vesel. Our President could have sent Old Irondsides to get Bin Laden, given him a broadside – just for show, like that actor and Texas braggart, George Bush, who dressed in costume and stood on the deck of a Navy vessel with a banner over his head that read;
“Mission Accomplished”
“Cut! that’s a wrap! You can go back to your ranch, ‘Smoke-em Out’ George, and play cowboy!”
President Obama sent the Navy Seals to an Islamic nation to dispatch the world’s No.1 terrorist! I, and Eastwood’s ancestors – are as proud as can be of this American Citizen. Right – Clint? Perhaps our President was born in Oakland, too, and is ashamed to admit it?
Clint’s billionaire golf buddies are trying to buy our democratic process, hide behind their money and mommy, verses fighting out in the open. Greedy Cowards – and Cheats! Clint is a fake blue collar kind of guy.
Clint’s cousin claims the Eastwoods are “America Royalty” after he proudly declares his kindred served in Tripoli where my kindred, Captain Issac Hull, commanded the USS Enterprise. Did the Eastwood’s hear my great grandfather’s voice, giving them orders as We the United and Free went after our real enemies?
It’s time for my family to be united – and all American families!
Are Amerians jealous of all that pomp and ceremony they beheld on the Queen’s Daimond Jubilee? My bad-ass kindred kicked Limy butt – and whooped the Islamic pirates, just like our President did. Behold – Americans at sea!
Jon Presco
“After subsequent service aboard USS New York, Decatur returned the US and took command of the new brig USS Argus. Sailing across the Atlantic to Gibraltar, he turned the ship over to Lieutenant Isaac Hull and was given command of the 12-gun schooner USS Enterprise.
On December 23, 1803, Enterprise and the frigate USS Constitution captured the Tripolitan ketch Mastico after a sharp fight.”
“On 17 December 1799, Enterprise departed the Delaware Capes for the Caribbean to protect United States merchantmen from the depredations of French privateers during the Quasi-War with France. Within the following year, Enterprise captured eight privateers and liberated 11 American vessels from captivity, achievements which assured her inclusion in the 14 ships retained in the Navy after the Quasi-War. Placing her for sale was suggested in mid-March, 1801
“All the pirates and people who were kicked out of every place else.” I laughed at the irony of this statement. Our last common ancestor, Asa Eastwood (1781-1870), together with both his older brother, John and younger brother, Enos, served on the United States’ very first warship, the famed frigate USS CONSTELLATION which aggressively defended America’s right of safe passage on the seas for US merchant ships. Their participation in the US’s naval victories in the Barbary Wars with Tripoli (1801), and many battles against piracy in the Caribbean Sea, served notice to the world that the United States would defend her honor and freedom at all costs. – So much for Clint’s claim to pirate ancestors. In fact, the three “Eastwood Boys” were the United States’ first “pirate hunters”.
Eureka! Mexico was going to sell California to Prussia for $6 million dollars. Carl Janke, brought six portable houses around the Cape in 1848 – before the Gold Rush! One of them was Ralston House. Was Belmont going to be the Capitol of New Prussia? I just found her when I google the King of Prussia who ruled in 1846. My angel has been leading me to her in my book ‘The Royal Janitor’. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prussia
The question I have been asking, is what kind of kingdom was John Fremont going to establish in the West, that Starr King talked him out of? Did Lincoln know about the Prussian offer? What about Chile? The Germans had a colony there that William Stuttmeister dwelt in before he came to California. Are we looking at a hidden Prussian Kingdom – blessed by Victoria – Princess Royal, whom the Osborne House was built!
The Empress and Emperor of Prussia are Harry Windsor’s close kindred. They took away Harry’s uniform today. Will he wear a crown and the Emperor of California? Will Harry and Meghan sit in the grandstand and watch their troops? Will the transformation of the Republican Party, start here?
Educated by her father in a politically liberal environment, Victoria was betrothed at the age of sixteen to Prince Frederick of Prussia and supported him in his views that Prussia and the later German Empire should become a constitutional monarchy on the British model. Criticised for this attitude and for her English origins, Victoria suffered ostracism by the Hohenzollerns and the Berlin court. This isolation increased after the rise to power of Otto von Bismarck (one of her most staunch political opponents) in 1862.
Prussia, alone among the contenders for California, had no colonies of its own. All but without a navy of its own, and the weakest and smallest of the European great powers, its position as a candidate for the vast state of California upon the other side of the world can seem unlikely at first. Friedrich Ludwig von Roenne, the German ambassador to the United States, was a vigorous proponent of colonies, and wrote the following to Christian von Bunsen, the Prussian ambassador to the United Kingdom, as follows:
I fully agree with you that now is the moment, under the rule of our excellent King, who has a genuine German mind and heart, which beats aloud for everything that is noble, to lay the foundations of the greatness of our beautiful German Fatherland, in a political as well as in a commercial sense. England will always, as you say, see in us an awkward rival, but the time has arrived when we must act in a bold and independent way, and this can only happen if we are united as if we have a Navy and colonies. What a country Germany could become in such circumstances! She would be the equal of any other . . .
Your idea of purchasing California is an excellent one. I would never have thought of doing such an audacious thing, but, nevertheless, as early as the year 1837 I already had the notion, for when I reported on the condition of immigrants- especially with regard to the question of establishing a penal colony- I called attention to the possibility that Mexico might agree to give up a piece of land in California. The idea of buying all California deserves in every way to be preferred to this. The many Germans who go there yearly from the United States very soon cease to be Germans; they adopt local manners and customs and are entirely lost to Germany. On the other hand, a completely German colony, even long after migration, would retain for our German manufactures a permanent market and yield all the profit to the Mother Country. The possession of such a colony would also provide a good training-ground for our army and offer innumerable other benefits.
Upper California- which alone can be considered- if one can trust the many descriptions of it which which have been produced- the [latest] is I believe that by Alexander Forbes,12 published in 1839 in London- is one of the finest countries in the world, and on account of its happy position between the tropical and northern zones, is capable of bringing forth all the products which are suitable for exchange with the Mother Country, and which also would even be sought after by Mexico and the South American states. It is only necessary that it should be in the possession of an active, industrious and energetic people, and who would dispute these qualities to our German countrymen? These are the qualities whereby they earn so much respect here in the United States. No people on earth are better as cultivators of the soil than the Germans.
England, France and the United States would no doubt look at such an undertaking with jealous eyes, but I can hardly believe they would use force to prevent it from happening. Certainly not the United States! But in any case it would be a good thing, before taking any of the contemplated steps, to assure the cooperation of Denmark through her Navy. Only then would we be powerful enough, and have the means to carry out this plan.
The sovereignty of Mexico over California may hardly at be said at present to be more than a paper one-as a matter of fact I don’t exactly know what the situation is. Three years ago independence was declared.13 Nevertheless it would be very important vis-à-vis the other powers that sovereignty should be ceded by Mexico. Actual possession could then easily be secured without the use of very much force being required. Also, I am inclined to think, because of the looseness of the existing connection, that she would be readily disposed to entertain such a proposition. In any case she would prefer to see Germans there to the English, the Americans or the Texans, and I believe that even these two last would prefer to have Germans to the English.
Nevertheless I am not absolutely in a position to say whether this is likely to have enthusiastic acceptance on the part of Mexico. If Denmark appreciated her advantage she would not hesitate for a moment to cooperate in the closest possible way with Germany. The time is past- or at least should be- when smaller nations should see advantage in being hostile to their more powerful neighbours. . . . The smaller states can only reckon on the continuance of their independence if they don’t stand in the way of their larger neighbours. . .
Ludwig von Roenne’s words were not just idle musings. He planned to negotiate with Denmark for the usage of the Danish navy in communications with the colony, and to have his colleague Baroth von Gerolt, a fluent Spanish speaker, conduct negotiations with the Mexicans. However, in December 1842, he Mexican ambassador to the United States in Washington DC. Talking with Mr. Almonte, the Mexican ambassador, he was convinced that the Mexicans saw advantage in ceding Northern California to the Germans, rather than, as rumors put it, to the American or the English. For the Mexicans, the idea was that it would form an effective buffer state between them and the Americans. He would go ahead as well to contact William Hogan, a former US congressman and the equivalent of a lobbyist, who declared his support for the endeavor. This all came to nought : at this points sources differ with either that the Prussian government advanced no further, quietly shelving the project, or that it proceeded as far as negotiations with the Mexicans in Washington and London for the sum of some $6 million to purchase the colony, but then abruptly dropped out of negotiations. Whichever that it was, California would not be painted in Prussian blue.
Prussia
The smallest and the weakest of the European great powers, and lacking in a navy, Prussia’s capability to hold onto the distant colony of California is one which presents itself as doubtful. Although many German colonists came to the United States in the 19th century, few of these were ones that the Prussian state could call upon or view as loyal to its projects : many came from outside of Prussia, such as in Saxony, and of those that came from Prussia, a great number were German liberals fleeing from oppression at home. Prussia’s capability to send colonists was limited, while its limited navy meant that supporting its colony through military means was equally problematic. It was envisioned that Denmark would enable Prussia to support its colony through the support of the Danish navy, but this raises the great problem of colonies : that colonial and continental politics diverged. If Danish support would enable the Prussians to guard their colony, in Europe, Germany desired Schleswig-Holstein, under Danish control, and if, as historically, this conflict flared into war, it would make Danish-German colonial cooperation infeasible. Still, lacking a navy didn’t historically preclude colonial endeavors, such as Belgium’s colony in the Congo, created by a state almost entirely lacking in a navy, Prussia had a famed army and government administrative system, and at least some German settlers might be drawn to California. A continued Prussian hold over California might be unlikely, but with careful management of power politics and an iron hand, Prussia might have been able to forestall American interest in the region long enough to secure it.
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