The question of admitting a State into the Union has been considered more frequently as respects the Territory of New Mexico than any other portion of the United States which has from time to time been admitted into the Union of States since the formation of our Federal Government. It represents a civilization which antedates the landing of the Pilgrim fathers at Plymouth. Before the Massachusetts colony existed as a political entity and before the Hartford settlement was made. there was a substantial settlement of immigrants within the present Territory of New MNIexico who had gone there for the purpose of establishing a colony and founding a State. For more than three hundred years that settlement has been maintained in one form or another. and from the small beginnings of a few hundred Spaniards who went there more than three centuries ago. it has passed through various stages of development until it has arrived at its present status of population and civilization. The people of this country have ever felt since the first time that New Mexico knocked at the doors of the Union for admission that New Mexico was not prepared for statehood. andthat it would be an injustice to the other States which form the Federal Republic to clothe that Territory and its people with all of the privileges of an American State in the Federal Union.
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