The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1847-07-08


lie rgal wants snd besriling FHirsEsg1nce.
reiaia he peOn . 1nsndiHg hondAge.
The cEslnm 81 tae rUaniEy requires
Ihsa lhesr - sosne lime dnnEg Tie week
allowed 10 Ilie re0nS aho ErSide N he
rsnrhas and hariendss. n lzhoF , poEtinn
az Ghsir tine or themselves in ganlens.
which are n. Ilrd 20 hen. b. Ills
mrans, and By ll.e help of Glseir wires ard
children. some Poems have IN ahuEdanre
Of vegetables. They do nai. however.
seem 10 drslFr many. lllhry hare good
PsIeh Of red PeppcIs. il sssms IN supPiy
III iheir wants. = fully ~ least - potatoes
DO the Irish. u cir pin-iPsl food con-
sisis Of lonil:as and prPPers. Meat )
rarely eaten ~ tie Poems. Some II them
have fowls. goats. sheep and COWS nf their
own. and ln'm these Occasionally supply
themselves. Vet they ate nul fnhd II
meat. Ike the Americans. snd cas- hul liz.
lle af il. Wheat brad is an article q
Whieh llisy taste bat liule.
MhCR prom mishehaves. he Is subject
ell 10 the lash: or. if his owner prefers.
he gets an order from an alralde 10 impri-
son him. When addressing he master. OF
one ol The wealthy cilizrns, Peon takes
of hi. hsi. aud speaks as respectfully a.
IN American would do before court Ut
justice.
There l., however. one great difference
between Mexiran aud American slavery.
In the United States the slavery al the pa
rent descensls upon his children. II is no,
so in Mexic0. The child IL nui enslaved
because his parents were, nor j. he hound
10 pay their debts. And. rs far as ! can
perceive. IL is not siigms 10 have bcen
the SOU Of Il peon. Color. here. is no
bad &c Of disgrare; and IL i man can dis
linguish himself. he j. free to do il. with.
out the stigma Of birth or color attaches! To
IL.
The labor required Of poems is not us
ually severe. At every rancho and hari.
enda there is a large number Of them. in
proportion 10 the work that is TO be done.
One-lnnrih nf the same number OF Amer
leans would 10 the same amount of ID
Dor.
In tho vicinity of IIermanas We were
informed that at least nine.,enlhs Of the
Inhabitants were poems. | should think
this about the proportion in all that have
seen. Where the number is 50 great. i,
will be seen, il is not considered so very
disgracelml TO be a peon. Their real
wants in this climate are So few and their
love Of independence IL 30 limited, tina,
most Of them seem to rare very little
whether they are ireemen or poems.
So Car as have observed, This system
Of peonage is confined tn the Mexican In.
dians. have never seen Spaniard or
one deep in that blood, who was peon.
There are two races in Mexico-the
Spaniards and their descendants. and the
original Mexicans. Negroes are very rare.
ly met with. The Mexican Indians con-
siitute at least nine.lenihs Of the whole
population in this part Of Mexico, and
avn told the proportion is equally large
throughout the nation. Those of pure
Spanish blood do not constitute more than
one.titlh of the other tenth. The mesii-
EOS Tor those OF mixed Spanish and Indian
blood make mp the remainder.
The Mexican Indians are dark olive,
and similar in color to the indians OF the
United States. The Spaniartls are bru-
nettes, and have dark compilations TOR
white men; and The mesiizos are Of all in.
ieryening shades between the two.
There is a marked distinction hptween
the races in ano,her respect. The Span
iar,is are looked upon as the superior race
by the Indians themselves. They over
ran and enslaved the country, and from
the time OF Crotpz, they had held all the
important civil and military offices with
very few exceptions. The Spaniards and
Mestizos are the land holders, merchants
and educated men; the Mexican Indians
are their poems.
, The Mexican indians often dislike the
Spaniar,ls. but they dare not show il.
They feel they are an inferior race. and
submit. The history Of the country shows
that cruel and barbarms outbreaks have
been made by the Mexican race TO over
whelm and exterminate the Spaniards, but
they have always evcn,ualrd in the ascen-
daney Of the Spaniasds. For when the
Mexicans seemed to triumph. some rene
gade Spaniarri or Nestizn who had ioned
them, obtained and held the power Of 90.
veInment.
In this classification II is understood
that the Camanehes. I.ipans, ArapalIors,
and other Indian tribes. are not included.
These are called wild Indians, and al.
though revealing in the utmost barbaris,n,
they are superior 10 the Mexican Indians
as soldiers.
The value Of peon Is not estimated
very high. Two hundred dollars would
be very high price lorone. For reasons
given above. forty or fifty dollars are sul.
ficient TO keeps man enslaved during life.
The woman who cooked the supper al
Santa Rosa, where first ale red pepper.
was purchased by the landIatly. the day
before. for eishty-six dollars. which was
considered A higlt price. SHE wac. 6,o