New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-03-06
THE FRONTIER.

A New Glass of slave states.

Correspondence OF fne ITlOune
EAGLE PASS, Saturday, Jan. 49,
Since even the Secretary OF War has announc'
ed the necessity OF amending the feeble, unsyste-
matte halfmeasures that are wasting so much OF
the blood and revenues OF the country to so little
purpose, on our extended frontier, perhaps
quiet locker on may be forgiven for saying one
word more on Government omissions. While
the last session, Congress spent nine months
doing that which it ought MOTTO have done, 1t omit
ted TO devote as many days to doing those things
which it should have done, and as nearly as ono
can Judge from the results, the Cabinet was
equally busy helping the legislative branch to d.
nothing. Partizans and fame hunters squaoblei
vehemently over the exact line OF latitude add
longitude that was TO circumscribe the shadowy
march of an imaginary slave army into New
Mexico, but what statesman upralsed his voice
against the real existing, overwhelming servitude
that sits paralysis upon the country and clogs
the wheels of life-that makes her a half dead
skeleton, a bye.word OF poverty and soth, and
would keep her starved pauper among her rich
and active sisters, neglected and forgotten in q
corner of the family domain, so soon as she ceased
TO be a convenient football for the players in toe
political circus at Washington. Did one mao
OF all those who made speeches about Southern
rights and human liberty" in New Mexico ex
pend one sentence for her real salvation, or turn
one glance at the PeOn servitude which enthrals
two thirds Of her population
New Mexico must be guarded against state
constitution that viii put her landless, uneducast
tilers Of the soil at the feet OF the landowners ir
as before warned you, a property qHatitca'i2lf
for UOerS and lars for imprisonment for debt mr.
all that is required to keep the ignorant enslaUed
and homeless Indians of Neic- Merico IN bondage.
These are three immediate wants of that half
Il = Al L.. =.
interest of the whole Federal family to see their
embarrassed sister relieved of her bonds aud
placed in the path OF prosperity and independence.
Whatever enhances the wealth of the individual,
partners, increases, as OF course, the common
capital of the Union. First, humanity and policy
demands that another servile race and another
form of bondage shall not be introduced in the
bosom of our motherland, to distract the peace
and rend her members asunder. Present Justice
aud future peace require the instant and firm
abrogation OF Peonsge. Let it take root in New
Mexico and we may soon have Peon State Of
Western Texas to be followed by the annexa
ton of other Peon States torn from Mexico.
You may smile at the term Pe0H State" a.
chimera, and it will be but a phantom if New
Mexico is not made sovereign this or the coming
year. But if she is, the phantom hardens into
black and iron reality, and before you have
touched it to know what the stern substance is
like, California, the Free, may be legalizing her
code of Apprentice Labor. and imprisonment tor
Debt. Let Mr.. Webster look to his laurels, or ne
may find too late that he is wearing the black
nettle o. Pe0nage 10 his historic chaplet The
second claim Of New Mexico is a thorough geo
logical survey, and it is a pity that none of her
boisterous nurses thought Of urging for her
this most helpful medcament" This survey
would keep most salutary step with the military
reconnaissance which everybody comedies is due
and inevitable, but which nobody sets about Civ
ing her in earnest. The immense mineral wealth
which is scattered in marvellous abundance and
most orderly confusion, over the wrinkled front
OF her mountains, would, II fairly given 70 the
worlds notice. attract TO her healthy wales and
sunny plains the men to make her forget her fool
ish days of Pesnage and the capital 10 decorate
her new. born greatness with luxury and wisdom.
The sales Of public domain that would accrue
from better knowledge Of the rich mining re-
gions locked up in her usex Plored sierras, aud
which are not yet monopolized, would literally
repay whatever is lebt-for il is only lent her
from the National Treasury Prompt action is the
more necessary, as by her present laws, whoever
" denOunces' or informs the authorities that he
has discovered and appropriated a mine becomes
its owner. The restless tide Of spectators will
flow in and denoUnce' extensively and for the
purpose of selling out again to actual workers,
and thus secure TO themselves the first purchase
money, which should go 70 reimburse the Nation
for it's outlay. Mere spectators, az Texas has
found TO her cost are worse than proftless drones
they are mischievous leeches, who produce
nothing themselves and draw undeserved for
tunes from the public resources and private in
A collateral need with this early survey and
OF the mineral lands Of this region,
10 the establishment of competent tribunals TO
ascertain and settle pretended land titles. Moth.
ing can be more loose, indefinite, and we may
add uRfounded, than the titles TO an immense por-
ton Of the pasture lands Of New.Mexico. A few
families claim it all, and this shuts the door TO
home and independence TO the laboring classes.
This it is that Pennies the poor workingmen in
all New Mexico. They have no foot of ground to |
rest upon, and must accept, on the landowners
own terms, the narrow privilege to toil-to starve
and to die on bis soil. The adoption, survey and |
ssle of the public domain in New. Mexico will in
reduce the life and health Of q home-possessing j