Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-04-12

would have influence enough to carr the bill through Congress. Consequent! an "ryster supper" was organized t6 which the "lame ducks" were invited and then aud there the slate was mad, aad tine Territory was virtually organ ized.
 Gourley, of Ohio Q4incoln manl wsi to be Governor; Goodwin, of Main, (BlaIne man), was to be Chief Justice Allyn, Of Connecticut Secretary Welles manl, was to be Associate Justice; Fur ner, of Iowa Senator Grymes' man), wa: to be Associate Justice; Mccormick, oi New York (Senstor Morgsn's man., wal to be Secretary of the Territory and prospective Premier; BashfOrd (Wis. consIn man), was to be Surveyor Gen eral; Duiiield (Senator Pomeroy's man) was to b. United States Marshal, to rep resent the African element. So the slate was made and the bargain con- cluded, i,lt towards the last it occurred to my oblusticated brain that my name did not appear on the slate, and in the language of Daniel Webster I ex- claimed, Gentlemen. what IS to become If mt?'
 Gourley politely replied, 70! We will make you Indian agent"
 So the blll passed, and Lincoln signed all the commissions, and the oyster sup per was paid for, and we were all happy, and Arizona was launched upon the po- ltical sea under command of ss
 Mil hammered men
 As ever cut throat or scuttied a ship"
 The Uill was drawn and introduced into the House by the Hon. John $. Watts, then Delegate from New Mex ico Gnciuding Arizona), dividing the Territory of New Mexico, as 1t then ex- isted, into two equal parts, giving the new Territory of AIizona all west of I09 degrees longitude, about l20,O00 square mlles. 4 corner of this was subsequent ly given to Nevada.) The bill contained only three sections, and passed the House with very little opposition. Some of the "Old Guard" made speeches against it, but "Progress" was the rule n Congress about that tIme, and oppO- sition was the idle wind.
 The first Legislature under the organic act creating the Territory of Arizona was convened at Prescott on the 4th Of October, 1864.
 John N. Goodwin, of Maine was ap- pointed Governor after GOurley's death, which occurred in Ohio in May, 1863.
 As I had heard profane friend re- mark in California that no two Christs could cross the plains together without quarrellng." l declined to accompany my confreres on the journey across the con tinent, and ''tOok a pass" from Ben Hol- laday (the Prince of the Plaius) from Kansas City to Placerville. and thence En ,.F youth. There 1 met Ross Browne, just returned from Germany (dead broke as usual), and said: My boy, come go with me. 1 will show you the wonders of the wierd land, and you can write them up for Harpers, and they will give you Sl5 a page; besides, I have millions, and whatever is mine is yours" So Browne came along, and damned the whole coun- try by his caricatures and sarcasm for a decade at least.
 So much for hospitality
 After had distributed the little dab of Indian goods allowed by the In an Bureau; away up the Colorado, at Yuma, at the Pima and San Xavier del Bac, t occurred to me that ''Othello's oecupa- tion was gone" the Indians would not give me a pumpkin for less than 8 dollar, and my government transporta- tion ordered by Secretary Stanton had been withdrawn by Sergeant TOole, so "the last resort Of a scoundrel" accord ing to Dr. Johnson wss to become a patriot and run for Congress. According ly I issued my manifesto" and by great exertions of my friends was elected the first delegate.
 The "rawhiders" were cross because the Territory had been organized under Abe Lincoln, instead of Jeff Davis They wanted Federal money, but they did not want Federal government. In fact they were a set of chronic grum- would please them.
 In addition to chronic grievances the capital of the Territory had been located (by influence of General Carle- toni in a remote place iu the northern part of the Territory; very much to my surprise, and against my advice.
 The Territorial papers in Washington had all been printed with Tucson as the capital.
 Ia addition to the grievances of the "rawhiders," I made an official visit (as it wa my duty in courtesy to dol to the governor and officers of the Territory at Prescott, and as soon as my back was north of the Gila river, traitor, renegade" "scoundrel" and all the vile epithets that frontier language can originate have been showered upon me, bnt in the serene atmosphere 10 which I "Iiye and move aud have my being, these filthy aspersions fall like water from c ducks back. 1 have endured them for more than quarter of a century, during which time l have been continually threatened with sssassina- ton.
 The capital question was a vexed one; but Alexander the Great solved the gordian knot by stroke of the sword so McCormIck, then governorof Arizona solved the capital question by saying "Gentlemeni if you will agree to elect me delegate to Congress l will remove the capital Tucson"
 It was done, and Mccormick was the favoriie delegate from Arizona for many years, and a more diligent, intelligent and influential delegate we never had After his term of usefulness expired Hiram Stevens who had been a soldier of the United States came up, and sd foar years as delegate from Arizona.
 Without having acquired the usages of parliamentary customs, or the man ners of his peers. the recent effort to be come Mayor of Tucson, without success have relegsted this ex-Delegate to mer tied obscurity. Oury IS esteemed b. many old pioneers, and Tn many res poets is a fit delegate from the territory as he belongs to the Bourbon Democracy "who never learn anything, and neve forget anything" "The world moves notwithstanding that the lOurys live Il it: and the donkey which bncked ul against a ferry-boat on which he wa crossing, and thought he was impedin its progress, is specimen ot the "haN | hider."
 As Arizona has been a post of mictu rltion for every passing political tram for many years, it is quite time ths
 more solid orders should be adminlstere | to its soil.
 Add the Governors of Arizona! "Ver
 are dose Governors now?
 Not one remains to air his Iubicun
 visage ill the Arizona breeze. They ar
 not much to blame; Arizona has been
 poor goose to pluck.
 The term for which was elected Congress as Delegate was only the r
 mainder of the 3Sth Congress (the sho
 term lasting only three months, an
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