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Show NZW MXIC0. In the speech of Hon. F. H. Teese, represent at ive in congress from Newark, New-ark, N, J., againat the admission of New Mexico as a state, the author has collated many interesting facta and brought to bear some ingonious aud forcible arguments in support of his position, though ho has uudoubt-eJIy uudoubt-eJIy fallen into errors in regard to the valuo of tho country which are unavoidable to those who have Dever visited it and rely mainly upon its limited literature to lorin their opinions of its productivo rC30urcc and natural weal'h. If our friend Teeno should happen to visit Uiah, the prolific valleys of which in some respect ate 1pm favorably situated tliao those ot New Mexico, ho wculd soon become- convinced that notwithstanding notwith-standing the teeming lark of natural advantaK..n, tho uterile plains arid detcrl wastes of this country are Among the richest of all tho agrktu" tural lands in tho United Slates, con-j taining in profusion tho elements necessary to sustain vegetable and animal life, and requiring only tho utilization of the water supply and an oidinary application of labor to render tbem capable of the most piolitable cultivation. We could point him to our luxuriant wheat fields, our mammoth mam-moth root crops, our (locks and herds to our hundreds of prosperous the graces of civilization have been planted, and where the meeting-house and the schoolhouse are developing a truo type of American citizenship. New Mexico, to be sure, is not Utah: the population of tho former, outside of the pure Indians, is mainly of Mexican origin and civilization, of a mixed race and nationality, in which may be developed few of the virtues and many of the vices of tho original races; but a hardy, industrious race of men like the settlers of this territory terri-tory would soon utilize the agricultural agricul-tural resources of New Mexico, and mako its desert places and arid plains rich and prosperous. There may now be a lack of water for agricultural agri-cultural Durnoses : the same lack existed in Utah until the settlers began be-gan to till the ground, plant trees and open the mountain water courses, since which the supply has very largely increased, and the great dim culty to the cultivation of the valleys has disappeared. Why shoald not a Bimilar state of progress prevail in New Mexico under proper conditions and with a renovated population ? In some respects its climate is superior supe-rior to ours; as a grazing country it is better, and its winters aro less severe. As a mining region, it is known to be rich in the precious and useful metals, but until recently the state ol society and tho wild Indians have nrprlnded nmsriectinz and develop ment to any considerable extent. Wo agree with Representative Teese in his conclusion that New . Mexico is of all the territories under the care of congress the one least fitted to take a place as a full-fledged stale in tho Union. She require above all things to fit her for statehood state-hood a considerable infusion of the American element, or of the ordinary-European ordinary-European immigration which forms the principal basis of the society of this country, and keep3 step to the music of the Union in its enterprises, intelligence and progressive ideas. The half-breed races are not the material to develope the resources of a new country, or if we may judge from the history of Mexico, they have not the genius of self-government. Mr. Tesie fortifies his argument in regard to the fitness of the people of New Mexico for full citizenship rwUU tht fnllnwinr statistics: A comparison of the illiteracy of New Mexico with the other existing -ermomi will be found equally unfavorable to th former. Arizona, in which the illiteracy illiter-acy is ihe gre!cst, was organized out of New Mexico, and a parti'-m of the latter territory with several thousand of its population Jim bean annexed to Colorado. Colo-rado. By tho census of ISTO ihe percentage of the population of New Mexico, ten years of age and ove who could not read w.-more w.-more than 53 jer cent. The percecuge of persons in the other territories of ten years t fane and over, who, by the census of 18,0, could not read, was as follows, (fractions being disregarded;) dis-regarded;) Ariz na, 27 per cent.; Colorado, Colo-rado, 15; Dakota, 8; Idaho, 21; Montana. Mon-tana. 3; Utah, 2; Washington, i; Wyoming, Wy-oming, 5. iow, sir, 1 think it can bo demonstrated demon-strated by facti which cannot be questioned that New Mexico, aa at pn seat populated, is so fir below the standard of the average intelligence, civilization and anterpri.-e of the cit'Zyn? of tee rest of the United States that the ;hculd nut bo admitted into our siiter-ood siiter-ood of states until she shall hve be come less Mexican, leas Indian and lcis degraded , and more American, more civilized and better educated. Of lhf 1)1,874 population of New Mexico Mex-ico in 1570, of ten years of ago and over could not read. As fcj,254 ef iu inhabitants were native born, it cannot can-not be aaid that this proioucd ignorance of more than one-half tf its population is owing to an itflux of foreigners. There arc other parts of this speech which might be interesting, but the demands upon the Herald columns preclude further mention of them today. |