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Show HISTORY MEXICAN NEW OF FACTS LEADING 202 and other Indians joining the Mexicans in opposing the American advance. On August 2d, Captain Philip St. George Cooke,*** of the Ist dragoons, with twelve men, was sent to Santa Fé, nominally as an ambassador, but really for the purpose of escorting James Magoffin, who was CAPTAIN COOKE AND JAMES MAGOFFIN GO TO SANTA F& the real emissary on the part of the American government, as he was enand having full instructions from the mission secret a with trusted president of the United States.** Captain Cooke and his party arrived safely at Santa Fé on the 12th of August where he was hospitably received by General Armijo had been advised Armijo, the governor of the territory. by the alealde at Las Vegas, Juan de Dios Maes, that Cooke was on his way to Santa Fé, having sent a messenger over the mounAlthough Armijo informed tains by a short route to the capital. Captain Cooke that it was his opinion that ‘‘the approach of the was 141 Cooke, Philip St. George, Conquest of New in fact a pacific one. The general had just nexation of all the territory east of the Rio SKETCH ‘OF THE BATTLE OF EMBUDO ACCOMPANYING COL. PRICES DESPATCH ~ FEB ~19~1847~ ¢ v “inv Z % t \ q me A if “sa w(t SS janet Mexico, p.7: ‘‘My mission issued a proclamation of an- Grande; the government thus adopting the old claim of Texas and thus manifestly, in a statesman’s view, a bloodless process would lead to its confirmation in the treaty of peace; and the population would be saved from the bitterness of passing sub jugum. The difficulty of a half measure remains; it cuts the isolated province in two! There must be an influential Micawber in the cabinet. As a plaintiff compliment, that I went to plant the olive, which he would endeavored to gloss the barren field of toil to which were devoted. ’ or Don trade, a man Mexico, Santiago, was an Irish Kentuckian, of wealth, with friends, speaking New and of Arizona H., History H. 142 Bancroft, ‘Magoffin reap a laurel, the general his subordinates, at least, unlimited capacity language, the Spanish and note: and p. 412 long in the Santa Fé drinking for and making wine on friendly terms with most of At Washington he was 1nthe leading men in New Mexico and Chihuahua. troduced by Senator Benton to the president and to the secretary of war, and expedition, professing his the at the request of the three agreed to accompany ability to prevent any armed resistance on the part of Governor Armijo and his officers.’’ letters of June In the Cal. and 18th from N. Mex. Mess. and Doc., to General Marcy Secretary 1850, p. 240-1, are Kearny and to General Wool, introducing Magoffin as a man regarded by the president as one who could render important services. Magoffin was accompanied by a friend, Gonzales, a trader he went Kearny. time. south Here, of Chihuahua; to prepare however, he and the was after accomplishing his purpose way for General suspected and Wool kept After the peace he returned to Washington, as a where he at Santa had prisoner done for a Fé, for long Benton, in a secret session of the senate, obtained for him an appropriation of $50,000 for secret services, of which sum a new administration paid $30,000, a sum barely covering Magoffin’s expenses and losses. SI LOTE: £ Sessvom £x. Dac. No. 1 30 % % Goreg. 1*9 SCS TI 7 |