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Show 278 LEADING FACTS OF NEW MEXICAN HISTORY There had been no substantial reason for the denial to the people of New Mexico of a territorial form of government for so long a period as had intervened since the treaty with Mexico. In the first petition for admission the people of New Mexico had declared that they were opposed to slavery. The fact that the domestic institutions of some of the states were distasteful to New Mexicans was not a sufficient reason for withholding some sort of government other than the strange mixture of civil and military which continued after the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. Had New Mexico been admitted to the Union in 1850, her constitution would have prohibited slavery. There were not a who had been born was over sixty-five to slavery, but the thousand residents in the territory at that time in the United States and the Mexican population thousand, nearly all of the latter being opposed factious temper of the times was such that the slightest pretext for argument gave rise to angry conflict and in the light of events transpiring during that period and until the actual breaking out of hostilities in the war between the states, there was no chance for the admission of New Mexico into the Bhat The true sentiment of New Mexicans was reflected ten years later by their contribution in men for the Federal armies, in the great conflict for the preservation of the Union and the suppression and eradication of an institution which, at the first opportunity, in convention assembled, the people had declared to be obnoxious to all liberty loving citizens. BIBLIOGRAPHY Court Records, Santa Fé, N. M. Archives Bancroft, Hubert Bustamante, Chittenden, H. Carlos M. H. M. Cooke, Philip St. George Connelley, W. E. Calhoun, J. 8. Davis, W. W. H. Emory, W. H. Edwards, F. Garrard, L. S. H. L. B. Army THROUGH THE JORNADA DEL ‘ MuERTO, THE ‘‘ JOURNEY oF DEATH”’ Reproduced from M ARCHING the work of William H. Richardson. Reports. 1858. American Fur Trade, Reports, Affairs Indian New York, Washington, Secretary of War, Ex. Doe. 60. Miles on 1811-1849, 76 Thousand Address D. ta Fé Archives Smith, Ashbel Senate Ex. Doc. 60 DOoNIPHAN’s the Horseback, New York, vols. Journal of American History, vol. ii. Historical Sketches, etc., New York, 1883. H. Ruxton, Geo COLONEL Fran- Session Laws, 1847. Copy in possession of Frank Springer, Esq., Las Vegas, Correspondence, 1850, Sen. Doe. I. r Ritch, Wige San Zachary Twitchell, San 1902. Baltimore, Price, Sterling W. Richardson, James Taylor, Mezico, 1867. New Mexico Prince, of New Conquest of New Mexico, New York, 1878. Doniphan’s Expedition, Kansas City, Mo., 1907. Two Niles’ Register Charles History and Nuevo Bernal Diaz, Mexico, 1847, 2 vols. Letters from J. FP, Owen, of Arizona 1889. El Gringo, New York, 1856. Notes of a Military Reconnoisance, etc., Gov. Doce., 30th cong., 1st sess., Sen. Ex. Doe. 7. Campaign in New Mesxico, London, 1848. Wah-toy-ah, Cincinnati, 1849. Doniphan’s Expedition, Cincinnati, 1847. Texas-Santa Fé Expedition, New York, 1844. Hughes, John T. Kendall, George W. Kearny, Stephen W. Meline, History cisco, hh. 3, Vigil Papers Washington, Col. J. M. at Santa Fé at unveiling of portrait Governor Bent. Report of, Sen. Doe. 442, 56th Messages and Papers of the ton, 1897. Adventures in Mexico, New Legislative Blue Book, Santa Smithsonian, Washington, cong., 1st sess. Presidents, WashingYork, 1848. Fé, 1887. D. ©. Reminiscences of the Texas Republic. 31st cong., Ist sess. Letter, Ex. Doc. Military Occupa tion of New Mexico, nver, 1910. sew. Mexico of Historical Society, Santa Washington. Reports to Secretary of War, 1846-1851, Fé, N. M. |
