The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1850-10-11

~ now go what sort OF people would be the electors
Hmm This pont prefer to draw upon MIR. Webster.
can say nothing which will carry with i the same weight
II authority, which is graphic In speech which
Sc delivered in the Senate in March, 1s4s he thus de-
scsibes the people OF New Mexico;
.New Mexico is secludedisolated- place by ITSELF in
The middle OF the mouniansve hondred miles, believe,
I'M RUsx Five hundred miles from the setted portions
"Mr WEssrER Further from anywhere elssl Il doe.
belong anywhere. Il has belongings ahoatit Sir,
hon communicated with the civilized world Than The
Sandwich islands, or OF the islands in the Pacific
Dsv Les sisyssd IL mind and condition than the people
Of ths Sandwich slandar less worthy of association
tants Of tho Sandwich Islands-fa less worthy are they
than the better classes OF Indians In neRhborhood
Commend the Cherokees, the Choctaws--if you
please speak Of the Pawness the BlackIeet and the
Snake Indians, and the Fatheads anything except the
people Of New Mexico They have no noon of our inst
buttons Or free institutions They any notion q pop
esrth And the question is asked, what will be their
ssitudon IL Is farcical talk such people making
constitution. They do not know the ng OF the
they do not know its import they know nothing all
about H. AND CAN TELL YOU, SIR, WHEN WE HAVE
CONSTITUTION AS EXECUTIVE POWER GOVERNMENT
THINKS PIT TO SEND THEM WILL SENT AND ADOPTED
WILL lE FRAMED IN THE crry WASHINGTON Now, what
says Colonel Hardin In regard 70 New Msx,e9sna mos.
member or the other Hou se and whose death did
deeply dsposs ne q ,s q ssw
"sThe people par with their land One In two
hundred or five bundled rich, and lives like nabob the
masters and subservsnt the slaves OF the South
and look like Indians and indeed, capable
Of sefgovernment One man, Jacobus Sanchez, owns
hrsofo0rths OF all the land column has passed over in
Ms1tcO are told we have seen The 6ss, par, o. north
~ need read the whole extract. He speaks of all
aoIthsrn Msxcs and New Mexico not the better Of T.
Unissd S.a,ss may judge from his works for he com
msno' ms y an Eags ~, ana hi
Isuppose that gentlemen have read it, He gives ac
count morals and % Of the people and Mr.
e hese your soono-be respected feowcitizens OF New
sss times Of the colonization Of New Mexco period Of
TWO centuriesin Of continual hostility with the
sy and n Constant insecurity Of s and properly rom
their auacksbeng also FIJI removed nom the eneryating
tnuences Of large cities, and in their isolated situaon
entirely dependent their resourcesthe nhabi.ans
reasons, We m gh naturally expected TO Distinguish
them, and ss deficient In OF character and phys
qusliti, social state, degree removed
om the yeres they might take lessons even from
Imposing restraint their passions shameless and
universal concubinage exists and total disregard Of moral
any country calling itself civilized want Of honora bic
principle, and consummate duPiciy and reachey, char
treacherous and ithess their friends .coWardly and
bringing to their enemies cruel all towards they
unite savage erociy with their want of animal courage
example Of which, their OF
Ben. and other Americans may be given-one of hun
dred instances
g One hundred instances and these are soon to be
our beloved countrymen"
How prophetic these remarks How precisely has
the result fulfilled the prediction Such people have
no notion Of free government. As Mr.. Webster pre-
diced their constitution has been framed in the city of
Washington aud they have adopted just such const-
tuition as the Executive saw fit TO send them.
New Mexico will not be a condition this
Union in twenty years, if she ever will be- New Mex
1eo was settled prior TO $780, several years before
the settlement OF jamestown. Its population s
great now n wasa hundred years ago Gregg most
shsd last years "l exclude the unsubjugaed savages
The entire population OF New Mexico including the
Pueblo Indians cannot be set down. according the best
ssnates have been able TO obtain, than 900
oouls These are divided as follows White Creoles
ny 1000; Mestizoes, or mixed Creoes, $4,000; and
Pueblo Indians, 10000. Oh naturazed citizens the
Der u twenty; and, if except
transient traders there double as many alien
rssidents" Gregg is OF opinion that New Mexico can
never sustain much larger population than this. He
says that the necessity OF irrigation has confined and
no doubt will continue TO confne agriculture principally
70 the valleys OF the constantowing streams In some
places the crops are frequently short by the drying up
OF the streams" All OF the land susceptible OF cutva.
ion now in cultivation II is true, their agriculture
10 very rude; and doubt American enterprise would
increase It's product But the New Mexcans live upon
very ttleess than half OF what people requires and
consequently consumption will increase, as our people
90 there faster than production. l
an anxious 10 organize territorial government for
New Mexico, and 10 keep in territorial condition until
the time arrives, II II ever shall when she will be in a
condition TO- come into the Union territorial govern.
msnt was what the people themselves declared favor
Of and asked Of to extend TO them, until the nterfer.
snce OF the Executive induced them form State
situton But, sir, will agree 10 admit her as
state until the character and number OF her population
F