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Show 195 MEXICO WITH WAR THE for the disthe loss of Mexico but believed that aid and comfort the sturdy in found be contented portion of her colonists would and in abroad both n statesme Spanish . republic young American Napoleon, Mexico, subsequent to the sale to America of Louisiana by on, and poswere in constant fear of American influence, aggressi were ever Mexico New in tatives represen Her . sible conquest Spanish the within ed watchful and no American was permitt . purposes and acts his of account strict a giving dominions without on the arrest The report of Governor Alencaster to his superior well of Lieutenant Zebulon M. Pike peculiarly demonstrates how W. STEPHEN or UCCUPIES KEARNY H'E — SANTA A nsive the posted the New Mexican governor was and how apprehe gression. Spaniards were on the subject of possible American ag this rein revealed fully is r The astuteness of Spanish characte port.138 The independence of Mexico having been achieved, for a number HORM CIVIL GovERNMENT PROCLAIMED AND OFFICIALS NAMED _.CoLONEL ALEXANDER W. DoNnIPHAN MAKES NavaJ6s — COLONEL THE WITH TREATY STERLING W. Price — Uprisine or 1846- of years po N 7 pes 1847 — Murper or GOvERNOR BENT — VIGIL DonactAno — Taos at GOVERNMENT, MinITaRY seat Amerand Mexican diplomacy always surpassed the in and vears of the nin ddl Bt 7 of that country eteenth century Spa in her American colonies ly much better and provinces, both civil and military, were seeming GRO ee agement States advised as to the condition of public affairs in the United Spain not only feared than were the authorities at Washington.1*2 ‘¢The 240-241: Tae 132 Meline, J. F., Two Thousand Miles on Horseback, pp. in a disturbed conbeen had States United the and Spain between relations in 1803 and the Spanish dition ever since the cession of Louisiana by Napoleon actual hostilities on the and the United States troops had almost come to There was every appearance of a crisis in June, Texas and Louisiana frontier. the fitting out of Pike’s 1806, when Spanish emissaries at St. Louis reported The consul immediately advised expedition to their consul at New Orleans. was transng officer at Nacogdoches by whom the despatch to the seat of govthe commandi mitted through Colonel Cordero, at San Antonio (Texas), came intelligence 0 Swiftly following on the heels of this report dna a received his ; a 8 conspiracy; and as General Wilkinson, from whom Pike a ae oe . s of being deeply was more than suspected by the Spanish authoritie Burr, the conclusion that some design detrimental to Spanish was the New Mexican province lay hidden in Pike’s movements t fitted up a2 the Spanish governmen . a violent one. Straightway regular and _ five hundred dragoons, sa aa er onsisting of one hundred of Lieutenant Don al ae undo > enlisted at Santa Fé, under Melgares. . . . This expedition Spanish and government other ten between S relations thousand dollars. the Meantime two the entire ignorance ; the representatives e social, and cost the we have seen, conspiracy of Burr, of which the Spanish government had, as States, although Pike remained in United the in known became advice, timely for Chihuahua, at , of the event until he heard of it en route scale 1846-1851 PANISH ° commercial, the was command fitted out on a very liberal Caracal, on the 27th of March.’’ rence in ‘‘Report of a Late Occur 138 Santa Fé Archives, Ms. Translation: On the 15th of February last two Indians of this Province of New Mexico. rican, & the Ute tribe arrived and brought into my presence an Anglo-Ame invited I heard, and even young man of genteel appearance whose statement supposed was what I oa to dine with me, in order to satisty myself that he nce and good breeding. im to be as to intelligehim, and suspecting the truth of his statement as to ‘‘T did not believe and some proI sent out a small regular detachment lieutenan escort, the nature of his t with not only fell in with a first vincial troops to reconnoitre,fortwhobuilt its junction from far not Conejos the on six soldiers in an excellent tal of this province with the Del Norte, two days’ journey from the capi Show’ of deep obstaclesto the g the overcomin but and t, towards the same direction, detachmen belonging corporal Succeeded in finding the serveant making a total of thirteen soldiers, completing the full number, two With frozen feet and having lost nearly all their fingers. ‘‘On the 2d of March last, the above-mentioned lieutenant, whose of a name . is t, and on the 18th men of his detachmen with six any Mungo-Meri-Paike, came in Without resistance they acquiesced in the notithe remainder of his men. necessary that absolutely was it territory my in fication made them, that being they should appear before me. no respect their arms, and I assured that them in ‘They did so, with e with a only, that in accordanc as prisoners, savingnecessary should they be treated commandi they should appear before ng, it was of the general — toe fae nie fully explain the objects of their mission. “ ate a Wilkinson, Paike showed me his instructions from General expres’ the rivers and countries he haa to sine a rough sketch of a chart of alltrunk, retai him of which I requested ‘Placing all which papers in a ™ and |