“The most formidable part of this combination against you is that which originates in the slave interest. It not only rallies against you the whole slaveholding south, but all the influence of selfish, venal, and ambitious men in the north, _looking to speculations in discredited bonds and land jobbing, or to the political honors which the combined vote of the south may promise_.” (p. 2.) “The doctrine of the slaveholding states, in regard to their domestic institutions, is non-intervention; but with regard to yours, it is _instant intervention_, to set at nought the prohibition of slavery, which you brought with you into the Union,” &c. _Ib._ “I am myself a native of the section, [Mr. Smith is a Kentuckian,] whose fate I deplore, and if my duty did not require, I would be the last to advert to the malady that preys upon its life.... The schemes of those who would bind you to the destiny of the slave states, render it necessary that your representative should be excluded from the halls of Congress.” (p. 3.) “_You are left prostrate, that Texas may dismember and divide New Mexico, and subject her to southern influence; that negro slavery may be introduced into the remnant of territory that may not be appropriated to Texas; and, finally, that the region thus secured to southern policy may become the stock on which to graft new conquests from Mexico._” (p. 4.) [_These_ are Mr. Smith’s italics.] “The first step in this process is to supplant the fundamental municipal institutions brought by New Mexico with her into the Union, by a territorial government, which, by omitting the inhibition against slavery in the Congressional act, failing to reserve that contained in the Mexican code, and preventing the people of the territory from legislating upon the subject of slavery, and from reënacting the prohibitory clause, will unquestionably abolish all protections against that institution; and, indeed, more effectual legislation for the extension of slavery into New Mexico could not be enacted.” (p. 5.) “The whole body of southern influence, now that mining is a mania, would combine to pour an immense colony of slaves into New Mexico. The consequence of this would be to level the whole population of New Mexico with the new caste brought into competition; and you, my Mexican fellow-citizens, who till your own soil with your own hands, would be compelled to fly your country, or be degraded from your equality of freemen, forfeiting your hopes of rising to the new elevation promised by your alliance with the great North American republic, and living only to witness the ruin of all that renders life desirable.” (p. 6.) This is what Mr. Smith says, when he writes home to his own people, who know all about their own country, and its danger of being invaded by slavery.