The Santa Fe weekly gazette. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.T. [i.e. N.M.]) 1851-1854, 1853-08-20
Santa # iDesklp csa,etts.
Independent in all things-Neutral in nothing.'
W. G. KEPHART, EpToR
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SATURDAY, AUGUST 20, 1853,
1P We are authorised to annopnco
JOHN G. JONES "a candidate for
the Office Of Sheriff. of Santa Fe county
at the ensuing election in September.
HuMBuo.--The story that the people

HuMBua. The story that the people
ofNew Mexico propose to raise 100000
dollars to aid in the construction Of d
Railroad that should pass through their
country. All the real estate in the com.
try is worth but ahout three times tlis
amonnt, and il is little likely that such a
people as the New Mcxicans, without a
doubt the most inert and unentrprising
on earth. shoul all at once rival the most
neighborhoods in public spir-
it and libcralty From our knowledge
of the New Mexican character, We do not
believe that $1,000 600 could be raised
among them to pave the road to Para
disc. There are a few Americans set
tied in the country, to be sure; hut these
are generally of the "baser Sort and
very few Of them have any surplus mo-
nev. We conclude, therefore, that ia
Railroad across the continent is not built
until it is effected by the aid ofNew
Mexico, we shall have to wait sometime
for it. nDHH
The above extract is from California
paper called Tile Sun, published IN San
Francisco We do not rcpuhli>h this
uprovoked and indecent attack npor New
Mexico for the purpose Of honormg It
with a reply Of any kinl; vet, by the
way, we might be permitted to express
onr surpisc that we should receive re-
proach from California, thefonlreepacle
into which not only the United States,
but the whole world have disgoiged, Il.
mong many good men, their thieves,
their murderers, their desperalos, aGd
their "baser sorts' of every degree and {
color. No credit can be gained IN u"ban-
dying epithets" with cmigrants from the
English convict colonies of Australia.
We quote the article only to give our
readers a sample of the abuse against
New Mexico, which has become fashion,
able with the "baser sort of ncwspa.
pcrs, since the example was set them by
Col, Sumner some two years ago, and
followed soon after by now fogotten in
dividual who was then the Secretary Of
War. 1t must be obvions to every one
who reads the public journals, that our
Territory has greatly declined in public
esteem during the last two or three years.
This painful truth is owing to the fact
that we unfortunately had stationed a.
mong us a military commandant who
was inimical to the people of New Mex
leo, and that we had a Delegate in Con.
gress who was unable to command the
dignifed respect ofthe distinguished men
among whom he was thrown. We will
take this occasion to say, that If the little
dancing priest, Padre Gallegos, should
be elected to Congress, there is every
probability that We will sink lower and
lower every day in the public estimation,
until we descend beneath contempt it.
self, and will no longer attract the enotce
ol even the "baser sort Of California.
For it looks Ike hoping against hope,
to expect apriest who could gain no res.
pect in his little parish Of Albuquerque,
to command, from his seat in Congress,
for himself and his constituents, the es-
TEEN of a nation Of twenty-five millions
Of souls. M.
An opportunity, however, is presented &
in the person Of GOV. Lane, tothe pco-
pie of New Mexico not only to recover
lost ground in the esteem Of mankind,
but to rise to degree of rcsecct such as .
will protect them, for the future, from
the shafts of even the "baser sort Of
witlings such as California alone can
boast.
tits hardly necessary for MS to say to
our readers that not only the people Of
the States, but the representatives Of for
eign nations at Washington viii form
their estimation Of Us from the specimen