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2 pay his debts & after the free negro, found an account against him of 3 to 400 dollars. If he had the temerity to discuss the first point the prison for debt stared him in the face & he was then forced to go again into a servitude little better than slavery to a new master.

 Now comes another species of slavery, & shows that todo Mexicano no es libre - all Mexicans are not free - but the different Constituciones say they are.
 Reverting to the times of the old Spaniards, & bringing them up to those of the Republica, it will be seen that the majority of Mejicanos libres, are really as much slaves as the negroes of Louisiana.
 The Conquerors of Mexico had large tracts of land alloted to them, or they took any quantity they required calling it an Encomienda, and all the indians upon it, became slaves.
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