Lack of newspapers. 201 



the editor had accomplished his object of pro- 

 caring his election to Congress. Indeed, 



the 



in the country 



small affair which was brought the same ^ 

 across the prairies from the United States/and 

 is now employed occasionally in printing bil- 

 lets, primers and Cathohc catechisms. This 

 literary negligence is to be attributed, not more 

 to the limited number of reading people, than 

 to those injudicious restrictions upon that 

 freedom of the press, which is so essential to 

 its prosperity. An editor attempting to arraign 

 the conduct of pubMc functionaries, or to op- 

 pose ' the powers that be,' is sure to subject 

 himself to persecution, and most probably 



which has checked the career of two 



din 



htened 



misers 



habitants of Chihuahua, where a 

 organ of the Government is still occasionally 

 issued from the office of the Imprenta del 

 Gobierno, or Government Press. No wonder 

 then that the people of Northern Mexico are 

 so much behind their neighbors of the United 

 States in intelligence, and that the pulse of 

 national industry and liberty beats so low ! 



Medical science is laborinir under 

 disadvantages; there being r 

 physician in the province* ; although a great 

 wiultitude of singular cures are daily perform- 

 ed with indigenous roots and herbs that grow 



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* Neither is there a professed lawyer in New Mexico : a fact 



■^^nich at least speaks favorably of the state of litigation m the 

 country. ^ 



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