Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1891-08-11
JUSTLY INDIGNANT.
Irrespective of Religious Greed the Peo-
pie of Santa Fe DenounCe the
AttaCt on the Catho-
lie Clergy
A Rousing AssembIage Last Night-stir-
ring Addresses-Resolutions In"
animOusly Adopted.

OF religious creed took, place at the court
house last night, the object being to pro-
test against an article which appeared in
FL Defensor del Pueblo, published at Al
buquerque of which Juan Jose Herrera
is the proprietor, and in which article the
editor attacks the worthy Archbishop Sal
ponte, his lamented predecessor, and the
Catholic clergy generally Of this territory.
The court house was packed to It's fullest
capacity. Mr.. NJ. Hess Dunand called
the meeting to order and Hon. L. b. Cat
ron was by reclamation chosen to preside
as chairman. Upon taking the chair
Mr.. Catron, speaking in Spanish, ex-
planned the objects which had called
forth this assemblage and denounced in
unmeasured terms the uncalled for as
sault which had been made upon the
Catholic clergy of New Mexico by this
bastard publication at Albuquerque under
the guise of friendship for the Spanish
American working men of this territory.
His address was torclbe and eloquent
one throughout, which touched respon-
sive chord in the heart of every fair-mind-
ed man present as was shown by the
frequent applause.
At the close of Mr.. Catron's address,
the organization was completed by the
election of Hon. L. Spiegeberg, M. Hess
Dunand, G. M. Dreamer and Prof. A. F..
Bandelier as vice presidents of the meet
ing MIR. Librado Baca as secretary and
Mr.. Jose D. Sena, ir., as interpreter.
On motion committee Of nine was
appointed to draft resolutions expressing
the sense of the meeting on the subject
under consideration. This committee
was composed OF Messrs. Anto. Ortiz Y
Salazar, Aniceto Abeytia, l.. Spiegelberg,
Henry Becker, G. NJ. Conklin, Q,
Monier, A, F. BandelIer, G. NJ. Dreamer
and B. M. Read.
| While this committee was out attending
to it's duties, stirring and appropriate
addresses denouncing this outrage upon
civil and religious liberty were made by
Messrs. K. f. TWitchell, j. D. Sena, jr.,
Cosme Alard and B. M. Read. The
speakers took occasion to eulogize the
late lamented Archbishop Lamy, his
worthy successor Archbishop Salpointe
and the Catholic clergy OF the territory
generally.
Appended are the resolutions in full:
Whereas, The paper entitled Fl DefeD
sor del Pueblo has in its issue OF Angus
| 1891, in an article, which may be quail
fed not only as lndecorous, but as indie
cent, attacked the memory OF the Illus
trlous, highly deserving and cherished
! late archbishop, John B. Lamy also as
sailing the character and integrity OF oul
prelate the illustrious J. B. Salpointe, and
of the vicar general, Rev. Z. Eguillon,
and other worthy ecClesiastics particular
ly, as well as of the clergy and the re-
ligious orders in general, and
Whereas, The said article is in itself an
aggregate of falsehoods, which painfully
affect the feelings of any one who directly
or indirectly has been able to become &C
quainted with the accomplishments by
which the deceased prelate was distin-
guished, and
Whereas, The memory of these accom-
plishments appeals to the feelings Of
every son of the New Mexican soil and
arouses his Indignation against the COW
ardly attack made upon his cherished
memory,
Therefore, The said article deserves
the censure and condemnation OF every
sensible and impartial man, and we, the
citizens OF Santa Fe, in mass meeting as
sembled, express IN the resolutions here
unto following our just indignation against
the author or authors of said article de.
claring said article to be lie, and vii
famous Islander; therefore be it
Resolved, LIST; That we denounce the
said article as the vllest preparation
ever committed, and emphatiCally con-
denim all its contents
I'd. We condemn the said paper and
declare it to be sCandalous, vicious and
immoral publication, representing nihilis
tic tendencies unworthy of a civilized
community.
Sd. Although the purity of character
OF the illustrious persons attacked in the
said article is far above the possibility OF
being reached or impugned by the cor.
ruption displayed in the article mentioned
and although the coward who assails
even the ashes of him whose memcry
remains craven in the hearts OF all the
sons of New Mexico, is in fact unworthy
of any attention whatever, nevertheless
we can not refrain from assuming the
pleasant duty of vouching for him, who
is now resting peacefully beneath the
sod.
4th. We all know that the motto O
the ilustrious dead from the time that ht
first trod the soil of New Mexico in 1851
was the trinity of words Education
civilization" and religion, and we alsC
, know that to him more than to anybod'
else New Mexico owes its actual con
. dition, intellectually as we'll as morally
: and we are therefore astounded to SCI
that there is on New Mexican soil maj
, Tor mem who should in such villainou
manner dare to belittle the merits of on
IS who has achieved what he has, at th
, cost of untold sacrifice.
a 9Th. That we pronounce the contents
? of the article in Ell Defensor de
- Pueblo of August l, 1891, as false il
statement and in intention, wherein i
reflects in the least degree upon th,
character of the illustrious dead as wei
as wherein it attacks or attempts to cas-
odium on the character of the aetna
clergy of this territory; We hereby en-
dorse them as honest, honorable anc
true to their religion, and as faithful
soldiers, worthy to bear the banner O.
the cross on which died the Savior o.
man. We declare ourselves their friends
defenders and protectors against calumny
and SANDER, and point with pride tc
their pure and upright conduct as being
unsurpassed by that of any clergy in the
wide world.
9th. We recommend to all those who
love and desire justice, to avoid and pre-
vent, by all legitimate, means the crcula
ton of the paper mentioned, and SHOULD
any of them have subscribed to it, We
suggest to them that, for the sake of the