Year: 1859

ceedings of a meeting held lately at La Mesil- Ia, for the purpose of ofnominating delegate to Congress. We publish the proceedings as re- quested, but do not agree with the action, in several important particulars.

 We take it for granted, that all good citizens are anxious for the establishment of law, and for such civil authority in Arizona as shall best our sincere desire and we therefore propose taking course that wiA most speedily and certainly bring about result so desirable and necessary

 It is our candid belief, and the belief of many well-informed citizens of this country, that the scheme of separate Territorial government for us, at this time, has been sufficiently tried to demonstrate it's impossibility. For several years that portion of New Mexico called Ari- zona, has had delegate at Washington asking for Territorial organization, but without sue cess, or even the expression of decided inten- ton on the part of Congress to organize government On the contrary the expression was such as to render favorable action for some time to come, absolutely hopeless, more espe. cially as the next House of Representatives bids fair to belong to the Opposition. We have every reason to believe, from the tone of the last Congress, from the character of the action there taken, from the opinions of, intelligent men at the seat of Government, that there is much opposition to be encountered long struggle to be made before any new Territo- ries are organized, and that at present, there is no real intention of granting to the southern portion of New Mexico separate government

 Why, it is absurd to suppose that Congress is not fully and amply informed of the actual condition of the proposed new Territory, not withstanding the labored efforts to misrepre- sent it-informed in reference to the capacity eff the country for settlement, the number of inhabitants, American and Mexican, the real number of legal Uoters, the extent of the ag- ricultural and mineral interests. All this is known, and will be laid before the next Con- gress from official sources. We speak the un- vanished facts, for it is time our people heard something besides the pleasant and delusive fiction of Territorial government

 We desire it distinctly understood that we would be ardently Sn .fauor cf Territorial organisatton if We belieDed at feasible. We feel the necessity of law and civil authority, but know such blessings cannot be obtained by fostering the delusion that Congress will soon erect us into Territory. Under the existing circumstances, our request will be treated as an imposition instead of right. It is our duty, tits the duty of us all, to bend our exer- tions in favor of something reasonable, some thing feasible, something Congress will readily grant, Because we cannot get all the benefits we ask for, sis neither polite nor wise to spurn those we can have. Better a limited amount oflegal rights and privileges than none at all.- We canget U. s. Judicial District, Branch ofthe Surveyor General office, Justices ofthe Peace, constables, and deputy sheriffs, which would answer all our wants for the present. We appeal to our citizens to point out the ra- tionality, the sense, of diScarding all civil inn munities, all authority of law, enduring murder, robbery, crime of every description, while we await the tardy and highly improbable action of Congress in favor ofa separate government It is policy absolutely suicidal, detrimental to every interest in Arizona and likely to make a