New Mexico's Quest for Statehood, 1846-1912

Chapter Notes

Chapter Notes CHAPTER I 1. Milo Milton Quaife (ed.), The Diary of James K. Polk: During His Presidency, 1845 to 1849 (Chicago: A. C. McClurg &Co., 1910), I, 384-85. According to Folk's entry of May 9, his cabinet a few hours before receiving news of the clash had all agreed except for one that he should delivera war message to Congress. 2. Dwight L. Clarke, Stephen Watts Kearny: Soldier of the West (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1961), pp. 114-15, 134. Kearny was not notified of his promotion until August 15 when his armywasapproaching Las Vegas, New Mexico. 3. The term means Spanish-speakingand will be used from time to time to refer to the nativepopulation of New Mexico. 4. Polk first made this charge in his war message delivered on May 11, 1846. James D. Richardson (ed.), A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, 1789-1897, Vol. IX (Washington, D.C.: Published by authority of Congress, 1900), p. 442. 5. Confidential Circular, James Buchanan to Manuel Alvarez, May 14, 1846, Benjamin Read Collection, State Records Center and Archives, Santa Fe. 6. June 2, 1846, U.S. War Department, Letters Sent, Records Group 107, National Archives, Washington, D.C. Hereafter cited as NA, RG 107. 7. Marcy to Kearny, May 27,1846, NA, RG 107. It washoped that this person, who would bear a letter of introduction from Bishop Kenrick or one of two other clergymen and would speak Spanish, would be "useful in removing the false impressions of the Mexicans in relation to the United States and their objects in taking possession of New Mexico,—and inducing them to confide in the assurance you will make that their institutions will be respected,—the property of the Church protected,—their worship undisturbed—in fine, that all their religious rights will be in the amplest manner preserved to them." 8. Sister Mary Loyola, "The American Occupation of New Mexico, 1821-1852," New Mexico Historical Review, XIV (April, 1939), 160,166. 9. Capt. W. M. D. McKissack to Maj. Gen. Thomas S. Jesup, November 7, 1848, "California and New Mexico Documents, 1846-1850 (Documents accompanying the Annual Message of President Polk [Dec. 5, 1848] and other papers relating to the Civil Government of California and New Mexico)," U.S. Executive Collection, Division of Manuscripts, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 10. Stella M. Drumm (ed.), Down the Santa Fe Trail and into Mexico: The Diary 3°5 306 NEW MEXICO'S QUEST FOR STATEHOOD of Susan Shelby Magoffin, 1846-1847 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1926), introduction , pp. 84, 263-65; LeRoy R. Hafen and Carl Coke Rister, Western America: The Exploration, Settlement, and Development of the Region Beyond the Mississippi (Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1962), pp. 298-99; Thomas Hart Benton, Thirty Year's View (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1856), p. 683. Senator Benton takes credit for the Magoffin mission claiming that he persuaded Magoffin to go with Kearny's army and introduced him to the President prior to the mission. 11. Kearny Proclamation (original), August 22, 1846, Read Collection. The proclamation is in both Spanish and English, side by side in a double column. According to a handwritten notation by Benjamin Read, this was the first official paper printed in Santa Fe under American rule. It was printed on the so-called Father Antonio Jose Martinez printing press. Photostat of Spanish version found in the collection called New Mexico Miscellaneous, Division of Manuscripts, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 12. Frank D. Reeve, History of New Mexico, II (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1961), 61. 13. Both Doniphan and Hall were lawyers. To assist them in drafting the Code, Doniphan chose Francis P. Blair, Jr., an army scout, also a lawyer, and John F. Hughes, whose book, Doniphan's Expedition, became the early standard account of the conquest of New Mexico. SeeClarke, pp. 148-49. 14. As quoted in Loomis Morton Ganaway, "New Mexico and the Sectional Controversy , 1846-1861," New Mexico Historical Review, XVIII (July, 1943), 207. 15. New Mexico, Organic Law of the Territory of New Mexico (1846). Original belonging to Col. A. W. Doniphan, Library, Division of History, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe. 16. Appointments made by Brig. Gen. S. W. Kearnyare listed on a document under the heading "Notice." Governors' Papers, State Records Center and Archives, Santa Fe. Printed in both Spanish and English. 17. U.S. Congressional Globe, 29th Cong., 2d Sess...