Daily American telegraph. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1851-1852, 1852-04-13
AMERICAN TELEGRAPH
The Governor OF New Mexico.


We have just perused the speech of the Hon.
R. IT. Weightman, of New Mexico, delivered in
the House of Representatives on the 18th of
March ultimo. 1t is clear, calm, and quiet ex-
position of the state of affairs in that Territory,
and a very satisfactory yindication of the char
acter and conduct of its people and present gov
ernor.
With Coy Calhoun we were well acquainted in
years gone by, and more just, honorable, dis
Greet and mercifu man We have never known.
Had the whole Union been canvassed for one
whose administration would be likely to conduce
to the welfare of that people, his superior for the
station could not have been found.
When called upon of late to credit the reports
that had reached us respecting him, we realized
inyountarily the conviction that they were false
or that a long life of unsullied honor had been
forfeited in the dark hour of some unaccountabe
hallucination.
But these reports were from his enemies-from
men who were deeply interested in misrepre-
senting him, and whose unjust designs had often
been frustrated through his aid That he pos
sesses the confidence and respect of the people
over whom he presides and that he merits their
esteem, are assurances anticipated by all who
have ever known him in any position ever occu-
pied by him in the course of his eventfu life.
Governor Calhoun was for many years regarded
as one of the most intelligent, enterprising, and
reliable commercial men of the South. In the
vicissitudes of few years anterior to l840 he
shared the common fate and lost all but his
chiefest treasure-an honest fame.
In the campaign of 1910 his efforts and influence
proved efficient in the cause of Harrison and
Tyler and it is doubtful that any man, North OF
South, gave himself up more devotedly to the
work of his party, or labored with greater advan-
tage to it. His services were acknowledged by
President Harrison, who gave him the consulship
to Cuba, and also by President Tyler, who very
promptly recalled him! The influence of his pen
wns subsequently felt through the editorial
columns of one of the ablest newspapers in the
State of Georgia, (the Columbus Inquirer, until
the occurrence of the Mexican war, when he
promptly gathered around him gallant band
from the banks of the Chattahoochee and marched
to the field of toll and battle
Though years are now upon him, he is as
ever ready whenever duty or danger calls; and
it will require men of more than ordinary powers
to weaken the tie that binds him to the respect
and affection of the American people.
We regret that the nature of the controversy
between his defamers and the gallant delegat,
from New Mexico would render necessary a re
cital of the circumstances involved, too minut
for the space we are permitted to devote to it.
very plainly appears, however, that while Gov
Calhoun and the people Of the Territory are OIL
one side of the issue, n corrupt and uneducateC
judiciary, with their partisans and military SUI,
periors are on the other. We cannot doubt that
the former will, both here and there, meet with
the encouraging support of all good friends oil
order, justice, and wholesome authority.