The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1848-04-19

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farmers EhFU,ghnHt the euuHiFy y o Rfas
3pre . Raaa dral and roEs2Ws Esd zeal
Again. NeM Mrxi0o . 81 ilks IsKAs. I
hsd haped ans allkePs hat Tsxas : lahs
illed y ~ . pnPulssioR Lac cuFselvrs-
nj By The Npanish FNrs. Roi ~ Peuns.
81 ~ eOsrsr. iKnnrsnl. snigaF lsndioHas.
wiih tribes of siascs aropnd lhgm. Pse1la
aEJ osherwsir.
Mr. RrsK. VII lie honnrAlr Sens.
iof allaw ne one verdi ! did noi HE
10 interrupts lie Senzter uhfa Ne was rad
ing an nrrnsnl az he rnnnsry lying IN he
valley sr he Nueers. Nhen he rounlry
eomss % hs known. u MI Be found =
valuable = ans PoiIinn Al Texas. fmm
ils SQUIRE 70 is mouth. The valley nf The
RIO Gran.le will he Epund . hs The same
kllsg. I did nal rl.ssoFe 70 inierEnpl The
Hen. SenzInr. bat ne do MI rlzini i ss
indemnify. hslirFing Il 70 be oar Just and
equitable right. 80 ar - Mexiran pepu-
lalion j eonrsmsd. there i good drsl 0f
il nov in Texas. highly respectable. and
amongst them hose y hn have Distinguish
I'll themselves a. patriots. men 81 inislli.
'csarr and nf wnFlh. THESE are rcming
aErr and settling m Texas, encouraged by
The prospect ri peace.
Mr.. wEBsTEa. take Nhst ] say IN
rsssrd 70 the valley &C he Rio Grsnde
lmm the statement Of Major 6ainrs. I
am glad TO hear that there j. : parl If 4
. ct inr The ioni Of eiyilirsd man. am
. glad 10 hear. also. that ihrre are snme q
the inhabitants II New Mexico xhn are
not 30 hesalled with lheir miserable con.
dilion ~ not To make ZONE Effort Ia g,I
out e The country and come into bsIIrr
one.
Sir. I woull. II | hal time, call the a..
trniion &C the Senate Ia very instructive
speech that was made in the other House
hy Mr.. Smith. ri Connecticut. lie seems
To have examined all our authorities. ron.
versrd with al our travellers, correspond
ed with our agents. Ills speech contains
Ill their communications. and commend
IL To every man in the United States Who
wishes to know what We are aboni 10 &C.
quire by the 1rquisiiinn Of New Mexico.
, New Mexico is secluded. isolaietl-a place
BY iiself-in the middle of the mountains.
five hundred miles. believe, from Texas.
mir. RrsE. Five hundred miles frnm
the settled portions of Texas.
Mr.. WEBSTER. Further from any where
else! II does not belong any where. u.
has mn belongings shout il. Sir. At This
moment il ia absolutely more retired and
shut ont from communication with the ci.
vilizeJ world than the Sand~ich Islands,
or most Of the Islands in the Pacifc ocean.
Il presses harj On Typec. and the people
are infinitely less elevated in mind and
condition than the people Of the Sandwich
Islands FAR less worthy nf our associa.
ton; far less III 10 send their Senators
here than are the inhabitants of the Sand
wirh Islands: far less worthy are they
than the better classes OF Indians in our
neighborhood. Commend me 10 the Che
rokees, the Chocisws, if you please--io
speak of the Pawnees. the Rlack(eei, The
Snake Indians. and RI .iheads--aav thing
except the - Indians, AMI am sal.
is6ed with them, instead Of tie people Of
New Mexico. They have no notion Of
our institutions. or Of any free institutions.
They have no notion II popular govern.
meni. Not the slish,est-not The slight.
est on earth. And The question is askrd.
what will he their constitutional I,is far
cical 10 talk cf such a people making a
constiiniion. They do not know the
meaning oflhe term. They 90 noI know
its import; they know nothing at all about
In. Aud | can tell you, sir, ,ha, when We
have made territory, and wish 1" make
il a state, such constitution As the Exc
cutive power nf this Government, thinks
Ii, to send 10 them viii he sent and adop-
ted. The constitution Of our fellow cili-
zens Of New Mexiro will be framed in
the city OF Washington. Now. whatssys
Col. Hardin in regard 10 New Mexico.
that mnsi lamenied and distinguished ufli-
Ger. whom well knew a. member If
The other House and whose death did
most dreply drplore! lie gives descrip-
rIon Of New Mexico and speaks Of the
people Of that country in these terms:
" The people are On par with their
land. One in two hundred or five hun
dred ia rirh and lives like nabnb: the
rest are poems or servants sold for debt,
who work for their masters, and are as sub
servienl as The slaves Of the Snulh, aud
look like Indians and indeed are moi more
capable of selEghvernmeni. One man,
Jacnbus Sanchez, owns ihree.fnur,hs Of
all The land our column has passed over
in Mexico. We are told Ne have seen
the best part of Northern Mexico: il So,
the whole of il is moi worth much"
i need not read The whole extract lie
speaks Of all Northern Mexico. and New
Mcxicn is moi The belt part 81 it. Sir.
there is recent traveller. Who is not UNI
friendly TO the United States, if NAV
Judge from his works, for lie commends
NJ.