The Santa Fe weekly gazette. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.T. [i.e. N.M.]) 1851-1854, 1853-07-23

ing wife that inspired the judge at this
instant, but he at once cried, with all
the enthusiasm Of conviction, Sensible
to the last-by Blackstonep
From the Missouri Democrat.
NEW MEXICAN APPOINTM ENTS.
There is something in these appoint
mentS which, if properly understood by
the people, would rouse them to q more
vigiant observance Of those to whom
they delegate their powers, and who So
shamelessly betray their high trusts. 1t
may not be generally known that upon
the advent Of General Kearney to that re.
mote, yet fair province, he created for its
inhabitants a semimiIitary, semi.civil
system Of laws tortheir government, that
BNhaps answered their present necessi-
ties as well as a better code-thc chief
complaint lying, not against the code,
but against its administration through
corrupt. intriguing office.holders. who
were, in almost every instance, Wing.
\ Indeed it may be said that, Of all our
long line of illustrious Presidents, Mr..
Polk was the only one who created a
local government, and then filled every
Office with political appointees. In view
of this fact, the unusual corruption in
judicial and executive functions, and the
barcfaced and shameless attempts of Of
flee holders to turn the flexible and easi-
ly moulded porulace Of that province in.
to materials for erecting Wing State,
the Democrats Of Santa Fe sent Capt
W. Z Angncy, aworthy and distinguished
Democrat, to Washington, to lay before
the administration the grievances that
pressed heaviest on the people, and to
solicit it to aid them in lifting the banner
of democracy in that strange yet interes-
ting country. 1t was at the close Of the
war, and on the eve of the Wilmot pro-
viso agitation, and hence the agent, who
had traversed a thousand miles of desert
at an expense of some hundreds, actua-
ted solely by patriotism and party love,
was dismissed with large promises, des-
tined never to be fulfilled. But he was
no common man; he returned to fight
the good fight, and bravely he fought it.
This gentleman, who had gallantly led
two hundred of his countrymen to the
plains of Mexico, where he won for them
and himself imperishable laurels, as gal
lantly led us agaist the official hosts Of
misgovemed New Mexico.
1t may be said, without fear of contra.
diction, that to him, to Don MANUEL
ALVAREZ, IA natumlized Spaniard, who
served as Consul under President Jack.
sony to DR.. Jos. NANGLE a gentleman Of
first rate ability and a sterling Democrat,
and to one other who shall be nameess,
was the organization Of the New Mexi-
can party to be attributed. Month after
month, year after year, money, time and
labor were patiently yet cheerfully spent
to accomplish the object Of their wish
the formation of a Democratic party.
And when their works had rpened, and
its fruit-the State convention and con.
stitution-were before them, they mod
estly, though perhaps not discreetly, left
others to complete what was SO nobly
commenced. Treason in the camp, the
absence of Angney, GOODNESS at Wash
ington, soon scattered the little band who
had sown the seed, but their work is to
be seen in the principles Of the educated
natives of New Mexico
Without saying anything respecting
those appointed from the States, ofwhom
know nothing, and of whom the inhab-
itants of New Mexico, | presume, are
equally ignorant, let mesay a few words
about those | do know, and whose polti-
cal tergiversations are as well known to
the people of New Mexico as to myself.
VIM. S. Messewey, Secretary of State ::
This gentleman, whose private character
is ireproachable, was many years ago
well known as a leading Wing agitator
in St Louis, SO ardent in faith that it led
to a hostile meeting between himself and
Mr. Skinner. From that time until the
summer OF -, 80, he was not seen or
heard from in the political arena, until
we run him for Congressin New Mexico.
The orthodoxy of his Democratic tenets
NAV be inferred from the fact that he
strained every nerve to elect two Wing
Senators Calhoun and Weightman) un-
! der our State constitution. The cloven