Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-05-18
SALEM, coLUMBANA co. OHIO, MAY 49, 1850.
The Peril Of New Mexico.


Gen. Sam. Houston has not been so long
| absent fiom the Senate for nothing. Tho ti-
dings we have so long expected yet dreaded
I tiom New Mexico are at length fully at
| hand. Our advces from Santa Fe TO the
I 18th Of March establish beyond doubt that u
| Texan party, headed hy Major Ncighbors ns
Commissioner, has entered New Mexico by
way OF III Paso, brbed or bullied the Sub
Project of the adjacent district 10 surrender
his jurisdiction to Texas, whose authority
has been established without bloodsicd over
a considerable thougli scanily-peopled dis
trio; oi New MeXico-that tlie Commissioner
has summoned Col. Munroe. the u. ;. Milf
tary Comnmndani, and cr-Q9ic'o Governor, to
lend tho aid OF his forces 10 establish the Ju-
risfiiciiun ol'Iexls over the whole country,
which Col. NJ. has indeed declined, but has
at The same tine QGiciaiLy proclaimed rigid
neuirdlb as bt,icctn The .Ne,C Glcrit1s; dnttor5-
ties and those Of Torls. The issue cannot be
doubtful. II the u. >. authorities aud forces
stand neutral and leave feeble, conquered,
distracted New McxirO wholly unprotected
against tie assumptions aud the power OF
Texas, the weaker must 20 TO the wall. Tex
rs is u Stale, with four voices and votes 81
Washington; New McXico is an unorgGIiized,
subjected Territory. with no lcgul authority
higher than the q. s. Military, aud that rciu-
ses To act on her side--proclaius itself ncu-
tral between her and her invaders. New
Mexico is cIIlshCd--is lost 10 Freedom, is
surrendered TO Slavery, unless some decided
iliterposiiion is promptly made in her favor.
Armed with The might OF Texas, aud dealing
ont denuncialiuus oi rebellion aud treason IN
her naue, Maj. Neighhors may very likely
subdue all open resistance 10 her hated do
ininjWl before interpostion can reach her
borders.
This we have LONG forcseen and struggled
to avert. The administration has rot walk
ed fairly up to the line OF its duty in regard
10 il. Finding on the records of the War
Department instructions TO our officers in
New Mexico to aid and support any effort by
Texas TO sustain her jurisdiction over all
New Mexico this side the Rio G,andc, Gen.
Taylo's Cabinet merely superseded these
orders by new one, directing Colonel
Muuroc 10 preserve neutrality and nom
IN case of any attcmpt TO enforce
her claim or Jurisdiction. This was merely
uudoiug great wrong without the courage
TO do the correlntiye right. The new order
should have directed our conmmdurt to
support und maintain the existing rule until
Congress should Otherwise determine. That
order duly transmitted aud pubishcd, would
have kept every thing quiet and us il should
he. Tie Texas OFu;OtS, though TcJ.iy
enough to bully the trampled and hunted
New-MCXicans, are nowise eager 10 look
down the throats of uncle SIMS caunon.---
They might have blusiercd, us Goorgia's !
Gov. Troup did in the similar case when Mr.. |
Adams protectcd the ChcIokecs from theig |
Iapaciiy, but that would have broken no
homes. Aud now, for want OF due moral
aud in tie easy hope that Now
Mexico would form u State Government, de-
fine her own boundaries, and appear IN the
Capitol demanding admission into the Union,
before Texas would get ready 10 make the
threatened invasion, the matter was lett at
loose ends; and we see the result.-M Y.
Tribune.