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As all marriage of whites with Indians in New Spain was unlawful, these Meztizos bore the same relation to the law in New Spain which the mulattoes do in our Southern States. The whites were set down at one million, or about one fifth of the whole population, at the most prosperous period of the vice-kingdom.
As the Conquistadors selected the best-looking Indian women for the mothers of the Meztizos, so the fruit-raiser selects the best natural stems to inoculate with his artificial varieties of fruit. In this way we get better fruit by exhausting the root, and a whole race of plants are sometimes worn out by mixture from too close a proximity of the different families of the same genus.
They form no portion of the laboring people; they live in effeminacy, and their children are not nursed at the healthy breasts of athletic negresses, as are the children of our Southern planters, but are suckled by a more enervated race than themselves, viz., the Meztizos. The emigration from Spain was never an emigration of laboring men.
Not only are they now all native-born, but the Meztizos seem to be the predominant race in the priesthood. The priesthood is not now so inviting an employment as it was before the suppression of the Inquisition. Miracles have ceased to be a profitable speculation, while the revenue once paid to the monks has been followed by ill-suppressed contempt.
When the cholera first visited Mexico, its passage through the country was like the ravages of the Angel of Death among the Meztizos and the fragments of decaying races. And this progress toward depopulation can not be stayed by the infusion of a vigorous stock.
The Priests gainers by the Independence. Improved Condition of the Peons. Mexican Mechanics. The Oppression they suffer. Low state of the Mechanic Arts. The Story of the Portress. Charity of the Poor. The Whites not superior to Meztizos. -License and Woman's Rights at Mexico. The probable Future of Mexico. Mormonism impending over Mexico. Mormonism and Mohammedanism.
The Meztizos, or mixed races, constitute another two fifths of the population. This is a less vigorous race than the pure Indian. They are all the children of sin, mostly the offspring of illicit intercourse, and are for this cause a feebler race than the offspring of the same mixture where the man was only blessed with a single wife.
Miracles and Earthquakes. The Saints in Times of Ignorance. The Eruption of Jorullo. The Curse of the Capuchins. The Consequences of the Curse. The unfulfilled Curse. The Population of the Republic. Depopulation from 1810 to 1840. The Mixture of Whites and Indians not prolific. The pure Indians. The Meztizos. The White Population. Negroes and Zambos. The Jew and the Law of Generation.
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