The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1848-01-19
NUMBER 46.

much misery and suffering the which will
surely follow any attempt to settle here for
agricultural purposes. Speaking of game
here, have been out twice the first time
| shot rattle snake of the most venomous
kind, and the last time l was chased home
by cougar or puma, a species of tiger, a
| leetle too thick for comfort about here.
One OF them was killed last week, which
measured from tip of nose to tip of tail.
They are found eleven feet long about here,
and are more ferocious than the grisly bear.
The natives call them lions.'
Ofthat portion of Mexico bordering upon
the lower Rio Grandc, the Indianapolis
Journal furnishes us the following informa-
ton:
"One of those politicians who, in 1914,
tiIity of'Texas,the great value of its products,
ly been in Texas, and upon his return to
this State, declared he would not live in it
for county Of land. Fifteen citizens of
some southern counties, since annexation,
visited Texas with a view of removing
there, but all returned perfectly satisfied
with Indiana. One of the present Colonels
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would not give the life of such man as
Henry Clay, jr., for allthc country between
SaltIlo and the Rio Grande. Yet it is
cost Of millions"
And the following bird d's-eye view of the
whole country is copied from an article from
'the pen of an experienced officer" which
short time since appeared in that orthodox
journal, the Washington Union:
"This country (says the officer who
writes from Mexico) is nation Of Indians.
Some foreigners and Spanish Indians,
mixed race, have the wealth and control
but the great mass ofthe people are Indians,
originally less warlike than those in our
country. Their spirits have been broken
and cowed by cruel and harsh treatment,
and they now labor, work and die for their
masters. There is no slavery that have
seen equal to ii. You can then form some
opinion how they can be approached and
treated
The officer who furnishes ss a Plan for
the War;" writes as follows:
"The Mexicans; including Indians of
the full blood, may, perhaps, number
100000. Without regard to color, they
may be divided into three classes
l. The army, the priesthood and the
millionaires, (chiefy land-holders j these
govern.
g. The middle class Of shop keepers,
mechanics and small propretors, and cult
vatOrs.
3. The lowest class-greater in number
chiefly Indians, or ofIndan blood. These
are bondmen, ground to the dust, ofworse
condition than negro slaves, excessively ig-
norant and bigoted; they are easily deciev-
ed, and have been led to believe our armies
composed of monsters of heresy cruelty and
oppression"
Now, we would, in all sincerity, inquire
whether this is a country or people for
which we should protract bloody and a cos
tly war? Can their acquisition and incor-
poration into the Union be, many just sense
ofthe word, regarded as indemnify ssa
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