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

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the evil; and in virtue of the endorse.
ment we then gave him, | suppose he
claimed, and has certainly received, the
Secrctaryship of New Mexico. The At
torney General for the Territory have
not the honor ofknowing personally. lie
is mere lad, educated in st. Louis, Of
Wing parentage and instincts. | do not
see how he can escape their influence. A
friend at my elbow, whom | have met at
many awell-fought hustings in Santa Fe,
Indignantly denies that there is anything
Democratic about him, The Marshal,
Mr.. Rumley: Were | to Judge him by
his actions, would pronounce him an
undoubtcd Wing, he having voted in ev-
cry canvass from 1919 to 1853 with the
party led by Hugh Smith. tits possible
that, Theoretically, Mr.. Rumley may be
a Democrat, but voting forthe Wing can
didatc is a doubtful way of demonstra-
ting faith in the principles Of democracy.
lie will, however, make a vigilant and
faithful officer, and in future, if | know
the man, will not be seduced by private
feeling to give countenance to the idols
OF Whiggery.
Had complaint been urged solely on
the ground of the above pal pable disre-
gard of party ties, it might well have
fallen to the ground, for we cannot be
supposed to know, and have certainly
no right to impugn the motives that in
Auence our worthy President in selecting
appointces from the opposite ranks ; but
when these mis- appointments are follow
ed up by others, showing a complete
want Of sympathy with, and utter disre
gard for, the interests Of sixty thousand
citizens, we may well be aStonished
Why send them a Governor who, how
ever well disposed, is necessarily igno-
rant Of their wants and wishes, when
you have on the spot Don Manuel Alva-
rez, a man well versed in all that they
need, who is capable of dscharging the
function, who is Democrat from prin-
ciple, thoroughly imbued with the "amOr
patri@ !" and who moreover, could, as the
poll books already show, obtain almost
the unanimous vote of the people9 Why
send them third rate lawyers to adjudi-
cate cases on principles of law, wrapt up
in a language they do not understand,
and which, were it their mother tongue,
would leave them as ignorant Of the law
that governs New Mexico, as they were
of any law, before they had opened a
page of BlackStone9 There were men
in the country highly educated, who had
spent years of patient toll to master the
Spanish, and to obtain for themselves
their well-earned reputation as Spanish
juristS. | mean Major ?. j, Pillans,
whom the people, under their State Or.
ganization, unanimously elected to the
Chief Justiceship, and his worthy asso-
clate, Mr.. wheaton, OF laos.
Why, say, send men to fill stations
; like these, for which they are now, and
must for some time, from the very ma.
ture of the case, remain incompetent:
1t i, hardly to be supposed that the,
have an alchemy at Washington of suf
fcient potency to translate third rate
into first rate. or TO convert an EngliSl
common lawyer into Spanish civil law.
yer on the instant, and therefore my
questiouremains unanswered. Itseems
however, that the people Of the United
States, through their agents, decide thai
these sixty thousand souls, whose right,
are solenly declared BY treaty to be the
same or equal to their own, shall mo-
form q government for themselves, anc
shall submit to the government of off
GERS, not only alien in kindred, language
and religion, but who, from the very
nature of the case, must be incompetent
for the functions they are sent to per.
form,
do not mean to lay aught of blame
at the door Of the Executive Mansion
for these miSappointm>ntS, as i have
once before termed them. Indeed, it is
almost impossible that our worthy Pres.
ident could receive anything like relia.
BILE information from that quarter, hem.
med in as he is by official and military
influence, that seeks nothing SO much
as oblivion for the past, and conceal
ment for the future. | simply wish to
show how completely unpretending me-
rit can be overshadowed and trampled
under foot by those who will sing pae.
ans to their own glory; and so long as
they sing cloudy and for asuilicient time,
it does not seem to matter at Washing
ton whether the key be false or not
did not take up the pen cheerfully.
did il simply to do an act of justice 10
men who. nerhans. will never see this