Arizona miner., 1866-04-25
A PROPER REBUKE

Those who have read the New Mexican papers, for several years past, have noticed
 their constant wrangling and the gross per
 sonalties of their editorials We do not re
 member more offensive instance of newspape
 crimnation and re-criminatiun, and if tb, journals have been entertaining or profitabl,
 to the people of New Mexico they have cer
 tainly been repulsve to outsiders. It ap
 pears that majority of the late Legislatur, of New Mexico were opposed to the Santa Fe Gdzette, and to its treatment of Judge
 Benedict, and resolutions conforming that sheet were passed and sent to Governor Con. nOiiy for his approval. He declined to sign
 them inasmuch as the Gazetts had been nc more personal and vituperative than th1 other papers of the Territory, and he thought 1t invidious to condemn it alone for what all had been guilty of. In the course of his veto the Governor gives the annexed sensible re. buke to such journalism as has too long-dis- graced New Mexico. We hope our contem- poraries there will profit by i;:
 "The editor and publisher of a paper i. T l professional man, whose business is the col lection of general and useful information from all parts of the world, and to condense the same to the space his columns will permit and accompahy it with such observations .s will make 1t intelligibe and interesting to his readers. It becomes his duty, also. as the organ of public sentiment, to treat of men and measures. when he supposes that any thing in furtherance of the public veal may be effected by his views in favor of. or against
 the one or the other. These views should be given to the public with decorum. propri ety, truth and justice. If the editor tran scend the limits of one or the other of those rules, and infict an injury upon an individual in his rights or in his honor. the courts ore open tO give him redress. If the Leeislature were disposed to visit its condemnation upon every paper that has contained articles of vi. tuperation and unjust criticism. not to say abuse, of public officers of this Territory I think it would have to undertake dealings w;tb the other journals of the Territory in whose columns there can occasionally be seen many hard things against public functionaries who seem to be trying to do their duty to inc Government and to the Territory. Very few ii any, of the official corps have escaped the censure and criticism of the press during the last lew years, and the censure has too often carried with it that impression of party bias which has deprived it of all the good that might have been the object of the infliction
 If editors and individuals are disposed to be Ill natured and abuse each other, it would seem to me matter only to be regretted bv the Legislature, but in which it should take no part, but if 1t do, its condemnation shonld be visited upon all alike, for setting n had example, in suffering their passions to over rule their judgment and transport them to the use of language that is prohibited by the courtesies and amenities of social life or off, cial intercourse. If the Legislature will re- solve that the press generally in the Territory. has taken too much liberty with individual character, and has indulged in unkind dcnun- ciation of men and their measures. which is little calculated to produce the reform sought for, in the one or the other, and recommend more moderate tone to every paper in the Territory, as a measure calculated to produce a more harmonious feeling and cooperation among the people for the promotion of the general welfare, l will, with great pleasure. unite with your honorable bodies in the fur therance of that laudable object. But to unite with you in the condemnation of one. while the others are permitted, unrebuked, to continue their assaults upon men and their measures, such as have called forth your re buke upon the Gdzette, would seem to be an act of Injustice and partiaiity to which 1 cannot lend my name and sanction"