New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-10-12
WESTERN TEXAS
New Mexico aAd oamo'Omi'e on sao h'0

Correspondence Ct ~ TribuHe.
EAGLE pass, TaaGdsy, avg. a.
Gen Hop.too iorbsde tbe Texan Legislature 70
do more l1s. wiasorth.n send 1nsA "I;h saoe'
q: tcoi.cau IL Ills pocket yclops "commlSsl0n %
orestizao the couptiesof New Mexico; and wheh
bEc T,yas ever ventured 70 investigate or disohey
N. commands of her chief? Houstons reasons
have their force ana policy for ne desired TO Keep
.ba way to The accomplishment Of New Mexico an
enbsr,tBacd, and be thought this vas necessary
10 insure the cHer ny Congress of lew millions
~ wsyof compromise and amicabe Adjustment
W. Gen Houston sooold hold a presumption
,oht - digDote Of this vast State knox not; but
the act is beyond debate. He commanded inac-
sop, srd T.xes wts an gently quieacent al SUCK
ing dove. while Santa Fe, or her friends for her.
opeu'y laid and ,uatored her plans Too party Of
Acton aiahed 70 organize tuat sectlon INFO Coun'
ties re them hold their elections, and without
IN eber CHS time, have the country above I'll Pa
80 come into The Legislature, and there atate with
her own living voice what she wanted. This the
Action party contended was the moit direct, natu-
raj and constitutional mode in which that section
could have fair hearing and it is true that it
would have had sufficient weight of representa-
top TO command attention and respect In the legls-
iasiye mas. This party had other views beyond
the mere gathering IN Of this outield OF the TeXas
sovereignty. They foresaw what, in Congress and
out Of Congress, the par eoce@FeNce' : Soushern
Rights" men moAt stapidly overlooked, that this
territory would coon be wanted to preserve the
equilibrium Of the North and South. When Cali
fofnia came in TO make sixteen Free States In tho
Senate Santa F6 would bs ripe perhaps to detach
from Texas propsr, and confront at she threshold OF
al ,-,,th 81, ttyfn anti
Oongregs the sixteenth Free WIN she SlKleehsn
Slave state.
TIE immense mineral treasures Of New-MeXtco
are scarcely dteemed OF, but her silver mountains
will vet ahine ous with startling lusIer even oeslae
the golden rivers OF California; and each Interest,
slave and non.slavehodiDg, would bring forward
with even step new Mineral State 80 almllar IN
interests that neither could be much checked or
much potsed by partial legislation without affect
ing tho other in like manner The way to Que lies
through the other bo'h are distant dlihcult OF
access, Indian infested, and peculiar IN production
They would follow each other closely into The Be
deral family, for New Mexico only waits TO have
tbe Hood gates aleed to receive heF ovefno" Oh
mining emigrauts-
This nlinority-for suspeo: III ID as yet tho MN
ority-are not unwilling TO concede seParatedoy,
vernment to New Mexico, and freely adml5 mat IL
will never be in effect slave holding state but
they deeire ibat this separation fhall be ms de on
the basis Of mutual agreement In general oon.
yentiop and 30 far in sympathy with Texas ana
her in. ttutious would insure stable rlendship
between them.
II Texas had done tnis at the frst the Texas
po,tion OF the Slavery excitement you'd have been
ayerted rs v eli az sill the evils uat are to How IRON
II in the future. Her inertia UGS treason 10 me
South Above al, what lesson &nd re6uke Tor
the Democratic patty Tnoy make ra,n, uGhoiy
expensive ar; they lavish q Hundred Millions Of
Dollars aud Twenty Fhoua and liVe2 TO secure tols
country 10 Texas ana Texas refuses or ncslects co
C.rt{, hor SUi tai
thus thrown SIS her until the very mon wdo made
the fam to 6ecare chat tbis territory IS not
hers and thai they did not mean the country iney
paid they meant shen they defined invaded Elk
AL Except the miserable Peace treaty thAs
closed this uggsry tbia w NJ and is preteXtst form
the W ak, Is and meano6t page in our hisory
III have explsined myself distinctly, you VIII
see that the Action Rnd equilibrium party IS thaohly
cne that has any definite thought Of what Is TO %
the end. TIE majority, 80 lar hSve been content
TO await orders in obedlent nUnacsion l speak Of
the msiority of politicians 40 for the people, they
have fet hitherto about as much interest ia Santa
Fe SO in Ksmsch&tka-decdedly less than in Han
sary but when it suddenly came % the masaes
thar acmethiug they held Q claim upon WA threat
ened they started up lib strong man tom nus
sleep, and the end thereof no man hnoWeth. II IN
COED time comes the proiIer OF these echoIng, sou'-
inspiring millions, Free S3iJ will not hayo TO 200
long for New Mexico, Unless the public mnd Is
intiamed by actual movement OF strife, there % oe
70 more rerious delay and opposition than VIII %
required for the dispos OF the speeches alVns 10
be delivered. Texas muaI be the commercial! OK
let Of w.MoEioo and shey ought TO be a close
smily but they by nature two Sia'es' ana II
good reason 10 offered therefor, Texas will yield a
speedy assent 70 the separate independence o.
New Mexico CORA MONTGOMERY
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