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4 As nearly the greater part of the population of Mexico are of the peon class, so the greater part are slaves - and yet these Mejicanos libres know not how to villify enough, a few planters and farmers, who after being invited to settle the then wilderness of Texas with their slaves - men who would not suffer a Military despotism & who by the force of circumstances are obliged to have recourse to slave labour. But this handful of farmers taught Mexico a severe 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 negro 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