Albuquerque Morning Journal

Correct View of The Case

GOVERNOR PRINCE makes an excellent suggestion, to the effect that delegates to be chosen in this territory to the constitutional convention shall meet and frame a constitution for a state to be built out of New Mexico, alone. And Mr. Prince believes, as the Journal has so often declared, that such an application for admission, coming from this territory under such circumstances, would be promptly and favorably acted upon by congress, and New Mexico would be admitted as a state. If we give such a majority as we ought to give, and as the Journal believes we will give, in favor of the pending proposition, there will not be room for a doubt that congress will admit us. After we shall have shown our desire and our fitness to assume the duties and responsibilities of statehood, to keep us out, simply because our neighbors on the west are less progressive, would be an act of such flagrant injustice that even a democratic congress would hardly dare to attempt it. As to what would become of Arizona in such a case—that's a matter we don't have to worry about. As to that question only one thing is certain, and that is, the people of the United States will never open the door of statehood to any more Nevadas.