Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1850-07-04
THE NEWS FROM NEW MEX
ECO.

The late intelligence from New Mexico ap.
prisng us Of the assembling of a convention by
the people of that territory, the formation and
PRONUNCIATION of state constitution, forever pro-
hlbitiDg slavery, and all accomplished within a
fortnight, as will be seen in another part of our
paper, is as welcome as it is unexpected
The determined front of resistance every
where presented by these people to the usurping
authorities Of Texas, has done the work for
them.
Atthe last advices the inhabitants were indeed
loudly protesting against such fragrant viola
ton of their rights, and threatening to take up
arms In defence OF their territory; but the usur-
pers were beginning their work of organizing a
Texan government; they were acting with the
acquiesence, to say the least of the United
States authorities; they were known to be back
ed by the whole influence OF The South, and few
we presume, either at the south or at the North,
expected aught else than that the former would
be compelled to yield, and that the latter would
accomplish their purposes and fix the blot of
slavery on this fair and fruitful portion of our
territories, which thus far had been fee from
that curse, and which her people had so clearly
willed should remain so.
But suddenly Col. Monroe the U. S. Military
Governor, is found issuing his proclamation call
ing the people together to form state govern
ment, a convention is seen assembling under his
call and unbiasedly adopting the Constitution
of their choice.
This throws an entirely new aspect over our
relations with New Mexico, and gives the cause
Of freedom manifest advantage in the great
battle she is now waging with the political pow
ers of darkness, which with us, at this crisis,
are emphatically the powers Of slavery propa-
gandism.
This result is claimed by the northern wing
presses to have been brought about by orders is
sued by the cabinet at Washington. 1t is very
possible. When men see a current rushing
upon them which they know they cannot with
stand, it is but the dictate of common prudence
10 turn and swim with it. This view in ordina.
ry cases might afford a satisfactory solution of
the affair; for retrbution would have overtaken
an administration so clearly sanctioning the out.
rageous usurpatiOn of Texas as ours was few
months since would have overtaken such an
act, as certainly as that any republican virtue is
left with the people
1t is possible, and we think true that the result
pas brought about by orders from Washington
but not by any old Or standing ORDERS as they
would have us believe. And when they claim
that Gen. Taylor has been encouraging the
movement now made, for the last six or eigh
months, we cannot, with our present light, be
lieve them, for we do not think they are borne
out in their assertions, by the facs. They, it il
true, now bring up in proof an order from thu
War Department addressed last November II
Col. Mccall at Philadelphia, saying in efFec
that ifthe people of New Mexico, to which tn
Colonel, we suppose was then about to repair
wished for govern Hent, they, in the neglect @
Congress to provide territorial one for them
should not be thwarted but rather encourages