Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1891-08-22
THE PALACE.
SANTA FE, N M.
ERECTED IN 1898.

[EXTRRACT FROM REPORT OF GOVERNOR
PRINCE, 1890.
"Without dsparaging the Importance
of any of the cherished historical localities
of the east, it may be truthfully said that
this ancient palace 'surpasses in historic
interest and value any other place or OBJ
ject in the United States. 1t antedates
the settlement of jamestown by nine
years, and that of Plymouth by twenty
two, and has stood during the 292 years
since its erection, not as cold rock or
monument, with no claim upon the inter
est of humanity except the bare fact OF its
continued existence, but as the living CEN
ter of everything of historic importance
in the southwest. Through all that long
period, whether under Spanish, Pueblo,
Mexican or American control. it has been
the seat of power and authority. Whether
the ruler was called viceroy, captain gen.
eral, political chief, department comman-
der. or governor, and whether he presld-
ed over kingdom, province, a depart
ment or territory, this has been his
official residence.
"From here Onate started in 1899 on his
adventurous expedition to the eastern
plains; here, seven years later, 800 In
dams came from far off Quivira to ask aid
IN their war with the Axtaos; from here,
in 1918, Vincente de Saivar set forth to
the MoQui country, only to be turned back
by rumors of the giants to be encountered;
and from here Penalosa and his bril-
liant troop started, on the 9Th of March,
1862, on their marvellous expedition OF the
Missouri; in one of its strong rooms the
commissary general of the lnqulsition
was imprisoned few years later by the
same Penalosa; within its walls, fortified
as for siege, the bravest OF the Span
iards were massed in the revolution OF
1850; here, on the 10Th of August OF that
year, was given the order to execute forty
seven Pueblo prisoners in the plaza which
faces the building; here, but day Later,
was the sad war council held which de-
termiped on the evacuation of the city
here was the scene of triumph of the
Pueblo chieftains as they ordered the
destruction of the Spanish archives
and the church ornaments in one
grand conhagration; here DE Vargas,
on September IA, 1892, after the eleven
hours combat of the preceding day, gave
thanks to the Virgin Mary, to whose aid
he attributed his triumphant capture OF
the city here, more than a century later,
on March 3, 1907, Lieut.. Pike was brought
before Governor Alencaster as an invader
of Spanish soil here, in 1922, the Mexl'
can standard, with its eagle and cactus,
was raised IN token that New Mexico was
no longer dependency of Spain; from
here, on the 9th of August, 1887, Cover
nor Perez started to subdue the insurrec'
ton in the north, only to return two days
later and to meet his death on the 9th,
near Aqua Fria; here, on the succeeding
dav, Jose Gonzales, Pueblo Indian OF
Taos, was installed as Governor of New
Mexico. soon after to be executed by order
of Armiio; here, in the principal recep'
ton room on August II, 1916, Capt.
Cook, the American envoy, was received
by Governor Armijo and sent back with
a message of defiance; and here, five
DAYS later Gen. Kearney formally took
possession of the city, and slept, after his
long and weary march, on the carpeted
earthen floor Of the palace.
"From every point of view it is the most
important historical building in the coun-
try, and its ultimate use should be as the
home of the wonderfully varied collec-
tons of antiquities which New Mexico
will furnish"
Coming down to more modern times, it
NAV be added that here Gen. Lew. Wal
lace wrote ben Hur," while governor,
in 1879 and 1880.