History and government of New Mexico . eason for themto rise up and try to expel the foreign enemy in time of war. Midnight of December 19 was the hour set for a generaluprising throughout the Territory. In Santa Fe the pealof the parish church bell was to be the signal for beginningthe bloody work. But their plans were not all ready for the nineteenth; and the __ , uprising was postponed Iuntil Christmas Eve,when the soldiers wouldbe down town unarmedattending the dances andother festivities. Thedelay was fatal. Theplot leaked out, and theleaders fled or were im-prisoned. 172. The Outbreak at
History and government of New Mexico . eason for themto rise up and try to expel the foreign enemy in time of war. Midnight of December 19 was the hour set for a generaluprising throughout the Territory. In Santa Fe the pealof the parish church bell was to be the signal for beginningthe bloody work. But their plans were not all ready for the nineteenth; and the __ , uprising was postponed Iuntil Christmas Eve,when the soldiers wouldbe down town unarmedattending the dances andother festivities. Thedelay was fatal. Theplot leaked out, and theleaders fled or were im-prisoned. 172. The Outbreak atTaos. — The revolution-ary spirit, however, was )| not dead. It was wait-er U1 A Modern Taos Typemg a more favorable opportunity. That opportunity came when Governor Bent went to his home in Taos in January, 1847. Taos, the old trading center on the northern frontier with a population from everywhere, had a liberal quota of men whose chief means of livelihood was to stir up trouble. No sooner had the Governor reached the town than a. I46 THE HISTORY OF NEW MEXICO few of these desperate characters and their Indian alliesbegan to lay their plans for foul business. Pablo Montoya,Manuel Cortes, and a Taos Indian named Tomasito (to-ma-seto) Romero were the leaders. The Pueblos, resent-ful at being punished in the new courts and fearing that theAmericans were going to take their tribal lands away fromthem, fell easy victims to the plot. During the early morning hours of January 19 a mobof Indians came down from the pueblo of Taos and werejoined by the revolutionists of the town. They brokedown the door of Governor Bents house, filled his bodywith arrows, and scalped him alive. Then they murderedfive others and wound up their orgy of crime by sackingthe houses of the American residents of Taos, many ofwhom fled for their lives. 173. The Revolt Spreads. — The same day that theGovernor was murdered seven men were killed and one waswounded at Turleys Mill, twelve miles northwest of T
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