Daily American telegraph. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1851-1852, 1852-08-09
The Pueblo Indians Visit TO the Navy.
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yard,
On Saturday morning the Pueblo Indians, in
charge Of their gentlemanly conductor, Captain
Love, paid visit to the Maynard They were
introduced by Capt Maddox to Commodore Bal
lard, who welcomed them in few pleasant words,
and then requested Captains Maddox and Powell
to show them the curiosties of the establishment,
which, as he smilingly told them, are to punish
our enemies and protect our friends-among the
latter of whom he considered his visters (the
Pueblos) to be numbered.
Several rounds of cannon, of large and small
calibre were then fred for their entertainment,
Mt the condemned storeship Water Witch, lying
in the river. They evinced great admiration at
the rapidity with which the guns were fred, and
the swift course of the balls as they bounded
over the water. A large Paixhan gun, of twelve
inch bore, considerably larger than the "peace-
maker" was shown them; when one of them
.jocularly observed that if he were put inside of
it. and it fred off, it would take him to Santa Fe
in minute
vessel now on the stocks, designed to carry
naval stores between the Maynard and Norfolk,
was shown them. The eldest Of the party, sage
of sixty-four years, in reply to a question as to
what he thought of it, said: al can't think at
all about it; the white men know too much"
The various operations of the yard-such as
steam-sawing, blacksmithing in all its varieties,
punching boiler iron, the manufacture of cannons,
bullets, percussioncaps, and ballcartridges, pile
driving for the foundation of new buildings, &C.,
were exhibited to them, and specimens of the
various small articles given them They showed
the highest delight and admiration at everything
they saw; though, like all their race, endeayor-
ing apparently to hide their feelings under
stoicaI expression Of countenance which inyol-
unfairly gave way to looks Of undisguised won
der and pleasure.
After making the circuit of the yard, and see
ing everything of interest, they we're invited by
Captain Maddox to his apartments, where they
were presented to the Captains lady, and hos
pitably entertained; after which they took leave,
their faces beaming with satisfaction at all they
had seen and heard, to say nothing Of the good
cheer with which they had been entertained
No one can look upon these gentle, intelligent
relics of the aborigines Of our country without
warm feelings Of interest Our thoughts revert
to the time when our whole land now teeming
with the stnpendous works Of art, and rich in all
that can contribute to the comfort Of civilized
man, was possessed alone by the beasts of the
forest and the wild race Of these simple, unof-
Tending inhabitants Of New Mexico, who have
now journeyed from their sunny fields TO visit
their Great Father and behold the wondrous
works of their pale-faCed brothers
When the Spanish conqueror Cortcz crushed to
the earth the old Aztecs, he little thought that
their descendants would one day form part Of a
giant nation Of whites, and far surpass himself
and his naughty followers in religion and the
lights of knowledge.
We may speculate as we please on the vast and
insurmountabe difference between the white and
other races but the fact is incontestable that
these poor, despised Pusblos are far superior to
the Mexican Spaniards in all that is pleasing and
useful in the character Of man. They are as
well educated, more docile and tractable and yet
more warlike when occasion calls them forth
and their well-cultivated fields show how much
they surpass them in industrial pursuits
Of the sixty thousand inhabitants Of New
Mexico, about fifteen thousand-one- fourth-arC
Pueblos; nnd, as this territory must OF no very
distant day, together with its neighbor, Utah
come into our galaxy of States, we think tina
more attention should be paid 20 the instruction
Of the people who are hereafter to send legisla
tors to the halls of Congress. Besides, as imam
hsst destiny is pointing with weird finger t.
the approaching annexation of Mexico proper
our peaceful missionaries may as well 60 over the
borders, and scatter a little of their surplus re
publicanism among the benighted natives
Is tt Truet