Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1846-06-08
Negroes i'm Mexico.

The popular impression in regard To the social rank OF
the African in Mexico is shown by General Waddy
Thompsons interesting Recoectons" OF that country,
be notices. than many opinions in relation
TO the habits aud customs OF that county, founded upon the
inaccurate narratives OF ignorant prcjudccd tourists
upon whose have been heretofore compelled
to rely. Gen. Thompson says, there good many
in Vera Cruz probably than other part
Mexico. lie did half dozen negroes and very few
Rulattoes, IN the city of Mexico residence there oi
two years He adds alt is very great mistake sup
pose that they ENJOY thing like social equality,
with the Indian population aud although there poI-
cal distinctions the arstocracy Of color quite great
Mexico IN this country and the pure Casulan
quite proud that he without cross old
Leathsstockng If that should have been with
the Indian race, however The negro Mexico
every where else is looked upon belonging class
little lower Than the owesI-the same filthy lazy and
cous that they inevitably become where they
not held in bondage. Bondage bsrbarism be
their destiny destiny from which the Ethiopian has
furnished exception in any country for a period of time
long enough constitute epoch The only idea of the
free OF liberty, IN Mexico elsewhere exemption
from labor and the privilege be idle dishon
As TO the sentiments Of liberty and the eevatng
consciousness OF equality they incapable of former,
and for the latter such equality did will
ist. There is line which be passed by any de-
gree of talent, accomplishment. The greater the
degree of these which, in individual instances,
exist and the nearer their approach this inn
passsble barrier, they only the miserable. This
may be called prejudice, but prejudice which exists
wherever the Caucasian found and nowhere is it
stronger than in Mexico. The negro regarded and
ed there belonging degraded caste equally the
United States much than in South Carolina in
quite great degree in Boston Philade phia."-
There lurking in the last sentence the less
singing because Of its truth.
Gen. Thompson makes remarks the system of
seryiude in Mckee altogether inappropriate in this
connecton-a system immeasurably (he says for
the slave in every aspect, than the OF slavery
the United States The of the (hacendas
receive aborers into their These aborers g
norant, destitute, hanaked Indians certain wages are
agreed upon, which the employer pays food, raimen and
such articles absolutely necessary account kept
Of all these things and neither the lsborer his family
leave the until all arearages paid
These Of ne has Of paying but by the pro-
ceeds OF his labor which, being barely sufficient for his sub.
sisence, he get free and ne only slave
for life, but his children after him, unless the employer
chooses release him from his service which he often
finds convenient do when the laborer old
diseased Whatever may be the theoretical protection from
corporal punishment which the law affords him. the Mexi
slave is practically, better of in this respect than
the African slave in this country AL the aborers MeSi-
Indians all the large propreors Spaniards Of
mixed blood. say all these may be few exceptions
but they very few Of either So of the army: the
higher officers all white OF mixed blood the
soldiers all Indansu