Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1850-07-02
RICHMOND ENQUIRER.
SATURDAY. MoRNING, JUNE 30, 1880.
THE NEW MEXICo OUTRAGE.

THE NEW MEXICO OUTRAGE.
There be but feeling of Indignation here, WIN
all parties, the usurpaon OF organizing New
Mexico as State and attempting to force her INTO the
Union. with oil her mperfecons on her head Inc ven Is
now rent asunde md this lust outrage is revealed as con-
nuaton of the game of deception and tnckery concoced
for the selfish purposes by the smallest breed OF po
clans that swarmed around the source OF patronage a
Washington. Every day flashes new light upon TIC origin
of this last movement. Washington correspondent OF
the Times discoses an important fact Of which had
been fully satisfied which placed beyond doubt
that Mr. Preston Secretary Of the Navy is AT the
bottom of all this small game, and that through his accden
tai and bef authority" the safety of his native South and
of the Union are placed in decided peril child may blow
ND the most solid structural small politician swollen by
little ocul station may involve whole nation in fearful
and ncxtcabe mischief The Times correspondent writes
ON the 10Th inst that "the Adjustment Bill may be con-
sercd nearly dead in the Senate There is hope but only
hope All that is left is hope The power OF the Admins
ra,ion has been such Wing Senators from the Norh
that with the exception of Webster help can be expected
from them. Even MIR. Rc OF Tennessee is said 10 be more
devoted 10 power in Washington than the of pow
er in Tennessee"
The following is the passage in his letter. TO which
more particularly aude. Instead Of any comments We
mark passages in Nacs That Mr. Preston is entitled
acture, is strengthened by fact stated by leading Wg,
that President Taylos California message is almost word
for word taken from Mr. Prestons speech in SlS for
pcctively admitting California and New Mexico one
State:
The state of things in New Mexico has undoubtedly al
taced your attention There is deep feeling here on oil
sides North and South and the condition Of things has
considered in Cabinet. 1t is sad that New Mexico
will be here with constitution in August.
There in the country responsible for The pre-
unhappy prospects Mr.. Preston, the Secretary Of e
Nary. His alliances are all wrong, well az his opin
ions From the Seward organ in Albany, n. u, ex
ample of these alliances copy the following, part o their
Washington correspondence which is from high quarter
here, l am sure:
Correspondence of the Albany Evening Journal
WAsnIScToN. JrSE n. 1850
The 'Sarsapaa Bl may drag through the Senate but II
will be beaten III the lionse
opportunities OF conyens, general topics with
and found him. od sound and rra
Whg, much indeed Northern Ss1d
BE- di,d nIgre So THAI many dre. ~
have from New Mexico The AdansSifGiion
Policy al intervention seems 10 irork cell
do not say his alliances all wrong because
he thus praised in Northern paper, but mean 10 say
that he is in cinning The praise from that abolition
section of HE Wing party which all truly national Wings
III all quarters trying 10 put down.
IL is known in Washington that large OF Bentons
speech attacking Mr. Clay 0he Sarsapara pcsch) hsve
bean bought and anked North by the very especial friends
the Cabinet. Mr. Se,rard tranked rery large number
Al The sociat circles ring Nth Mr. Pressons abuse 81 hr