ent to be numbered among those who introduced new Slave Power into the Union.
I will do all in my power to prevent it.
Mr. Clay's deliberate and emphatic declaration that he would never consent nor be constrained to vote for the positive introduction of Slavery either south or north of that line (36° 30′), will be found on page 205. But Gov. Anthony, of Rhode Island, formally offered,
See page 381. in the Senate, to unite in the immediate admission of New Mexico (which then included Arizona) as a State, under such Constitution as her people should see fit to frame and adopt-New Mexico being at that moment a Slave Territory by act of her Legislature — to say nothing of the Dred Scott decision.
That would have given the South a firm hold on nearly every acre of our present territory whereon she could rationally hope ever to plant Slavery--provided the people of New Mexico should see fit to ingraft Slavery on their State, as they seemed, under Democratic training, to have done o
oiled, he evidently gave it up disheartened and disgusted.
The second fight was severe on both sides, but the enemy was most terribly cut up. But upon both fields of battle their dead was literally piled up in horrid masses, while their wounded, moaning with agony, were scattered through the forests in every direction.
But our own casualty list is formidable.
Our friend, Col. E. E. Cross, well known in the West a few years ago as editor, correspondent, etc., and later as an emigrant to Arizona, where he was a conspicuous citizen, raged like a lion through battle, and they say that when his long body fell he went down like a pine tree.
Finding it impossible to stand, he shouted: Charge 'em like h — l, boys; show 'em that you are Yankees; d — d sorry to say I caan't go with you.
Previous to the misfortune, while he was posting a company, a rebel officer rode up inquiring for Gen. Anderson.
Cross reached for his collar and brought him down on the run, answering the astonished off
