Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1889-02-14
JOINT RESOLUTIONS


in response to certain joint resolutions Of
the senate and house OF representatives
of the state of Colorado with relation tc
the territory OF New Mexico.
Whereas, Upward of forty years age
the United States acquired from the re-
public of Mexico a vast domain now in
Cluded within the states OF Colorado
California and Nevada and the territories
of New Mexico, Arizona and Utah, and
by the terms of the treaty of cession
pledged the national faith to accord to the
citizens of Mexico who, renouncing theil
allegiance to their former government
should elect to remain in the coded coun'
try, all the rights and privileges OF citi'
zens of the United States and
Whereas, New Mexico, at the time Of
the said cession, was the most populous
and enlightened part of the country sc
coded, and had for period OF twenty
five years and upward been under con
stitutional government modelled on the
constitution of the United States, and hel
people had grown attached to Republican
principles and jealous to defend them
and
Whereas, The present territory OF New
Mexico contains as large proportion Of
citizens born and bred under the Amer
lean flag as any other territory or any
northern state OF the union and
Whereas, In devotion to constitutional
liberty and in self-sacrifiCing fidelity to
the obligations of American citizenship
imposed upon them by the said treaty,
her people during the late civil war stood
as Il bulwark against the inroads of armed
forces hostile to the American union, and
heroically spent their blood and freely
gave their treasure in unfolding the ma
tional hag-in this devotion sacrificing
more men and more money than all the
territories combined then existing; and
Whereas, Before and after the civil war,
as we'll as during its progress, her citizens,
left to their own resources, COPIED success
fully against the hordes of savage Indians
who assailed and desolated their homes,
1hd whom the general government ap-
peared powerless to restrain; and
Whereas, New Mexico of right ought to
be Immediately granted the rights and
privileges of state; and
Whereas, Notwithstanding the ex-
pressed purpose of large majority of the
congress of the United States, manifested
on several occasions. and especially in
1876, to enforce the spirit of the said
treaty and to show grateful appreciation
of the patriotic efforts of New Mexico in
the cause Of liberty and civilization by
admitting her as state into the union,
yet of late divers ignorant or evil disposed
persons have endeavored, by vituperation
and falsehood, to cast obloquy upon our
people and thereby induce the congress of
the United States TO view with disfavor
the bill now pending for the admission of
New Mexico into the union; and
Whereas, Our neighbor, the state Of
Colorado, a large part of whose territory
was carved out of New Mexico and ac-
quired by the same treaty, has, by joint
resolutions of her legislature, nobly come
to the aid of New Mexico in vndicating her
from the aspersions of her enemies and
in urging with congress argument and
eloquent persuasion her claims to state
hood therefore be it
Resolved, By the legislative assembly
Of the territory of New Mexico, that this
body, in its own behalf and that of its
constituents, tenders to the senate and
house of representatives of the state of
Colorado, jointly and severally, and to
the people of that state, so well represent
ed, the most profound and sincere graft
tude for the earnest, emphatic, able and
impressive joint resolutions recently
passed by the legislature of Colorado in
favor of the admission of New Mexico
into tho uoiop
Resolved, That in the judgment of
this assembly, the state OF Colo
RADIO, in and of herself, presents to
the candid mind the most convincing
proof of the propriety of Immediately ele-
waiting New Mexico to the dignity of state
hood. The grand natural resources of
New Mexico are the same in kind and
degree as those which the Centennial
state, since her admission into the union,
has developed until she has become the
marvel of the world, the favorite goal Of
intelligent and enterprising emigration
from other states, and the strongest mag
net of investment seeking capital. The
native people of New Mexico, who be-
came incorporated first into the territory
and then into the state of Colorado, and
their descendants, have proved by their
intelligent and energetic cooperation
with the citizens derived by Colorado
from other states that the development
and protection of American institutions
and American interests can never suffer
ct their hands, and that they are, in fact
as in law, true American citizens.
The Hon. Casimiro Barela, himself one
Of the Spanish speaking citizens who, in
reliance upon the national faith, have |