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4 Is nearly the greater part of the population of Mexico an of the peon class, & the greater part are slaves - and yet these Mejicanos likes? know not how to villify enough, a few planters and farmers, who after being united? to ? the then wilderness of Texas with their slaves - men who would not suffer a Military despotism & who by the force of unclear unclear are obliged to have recourse to slave labour. But this handful of farmers taught Mexico a ? lesson on the field of San Jacinto & when their President the Sanguinary Santa Anna sued for his life - & he obtained it, & how has he kept his promise to Texas?
But to return to the negroes in Texas, he is as well clad, better fed & though he bears the name of slave, if he be not a "bad nigger" he will pass his life easily. Negroes occasionally leave their Texan masters & go to Mexico, in a short time they