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Speech of Hon. Richard H. Weightman, of New Mexico : delivered in the House of Representatives, March 15, 1852, vindicatory of the course of Governor James S. Calhoun, of New Mexico, and of the character of the people of that country ... exposing the character of the military government ... and the machinations of the American and foreign anti-slavery society to stir up the New Mexicans ... to treason and rebellion against the government of the United States; and in reply to the Hon. Mr. Phelps, of Missouri, who ... charged Governor James S. Calhoun, of New Mexico, with corrupt interference in the election; with fomenting disorder among the ... inhabitants; with ... protecting Mexicans in ... the murder of Americans, and particulary specifying the murder of William C. Skinner, of St. Louis Missouri