What was the main problem preventing new mexico from becoming a state in the 1800s?

new mexicans could not agree on a state constitution.
congress was unwilling to accept new mexico's application for statehood.
new mexico's territorial government could not manage the area at all.
the civil war had caused a great deal of damage to new mexican lands.

descendants of muhammed

i confess that there are several parts of this constitution which i do not at present approve, but i am not sure i shall never approve them: for having lived long, i have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions even on important subjects, which i once thought right, but found to be otherwise. it is therefore that the older i grow, the more apt i am to doubt my own judgment, and to pay more respect to the judgment of others.