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Show 2984 LEADING which there FACTS were no OF NEW funds. MEXICAN Governor Calhoun HISTORY was overwhelmed with complaints from citizens whose property was constantly being stolen by the marauding savages, and, having been in office only six months, he wrote to his superiors at Washington — ‘‘ without a dollar in our territorial treasury, without munitions of war, without authority to call out our militia, without the codperation of the military authorities of this territory, and with numberless complaints and calls for protection, do you not perceive I must be sadly embarrassed and disquieted?’’ In addition to the duties of the office of governor, Calhoun was by virtue of his office in charge of Indian affairs as superintendent, and at this time the savages were causing a great deal of distress. The governor had not been in office three months before he began having trouble with Colonel Sumner, the commander of the military department. The latter was inclined to regard the depredations of the Indians as of slight importance and the report of Governor Calhoun of 1851 shows the grievous antagonism between the military and civil authorities 2” 206 Journal of American History, vol. ili, p. 546, Letter from John Greiner, Oct. 1, 1851, He says: from Santa Fé, describes conditions as they were at this time. '‘ Between the savage Indians, the treacherous Mexicans and the out- lawed Americans, a man has to run the gauntlet in this country. Three governors within twelve years have lost their heads and there are men here at present who talk as flippantly of taking Governor Calhoun’s head as though it were of no consequence whatever. Everybody and everything in this country appears at cross purposes. In the first place the civil and military authorities are at war. Colonel Sumner refuses to acknowledge the right of the Governor to send Indian agents with him to the Indian country — and will not afford the proper facilities for them to go —and the governor refuses to send them. The governor and secretary of the Territory can not hitch horses. The American residents are at war with the governor, while the Mexican population sides with him. Even the missionaries are at logger-heads. preacher, Reed, is at war with the Methodist, Nicholson, and The Baptist ‘wice-wersa.’ While the Presbyterian, Kephart, has turned editor and is raising the in general through the columns of the Santa Fé Gazette. The American troops midlrs war ve the Indians, and if they could only catch them(the Navaj6s), ner he em fits, but Colonel Sumner is on his way back from their country Net even Seeing one of them. Since his expedition started, the Indians x seem into this country within twenty miles of Santa Fé, and have robbed ie “apg eae run off their stock. Two Americans have been murdered ches . . y ee owing I think to their own impudence, and the gov- ditant tr; Gs willie aven oeeo with aiding and abetting the deed, although seventy miles and they make no bones of saying they — ns operatio on. inte ofupon and ostilities; cool, calm and deliberate, he is not easily thrown off 1s weard. a I have 7 rd him. oo 18 Yet I have never known him to give any depend upon Teet to the foe. it, if he does fall, it will be with his face And there will be men who will die with him. een residing at Taos lately, among the Eutahs and Apaches, who get o oe ro Bri re Merchants and po Freighters on the Santa Fé Trail—the Spiegelberg Brothers Willi, Lehman, Jacob 8., Levi, and Emanuel |