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vate generally less ground than many smaller but independent farmers. 
razing country, both States are unsurpassed by any in the Union. 
Millions of stock can be raised every year in the prairies of the high table- 
land and i in 
who chiefly in the last ten years have crippled all industry in stock 
taising, have first to be subdued. ie ata 
ining, another main resource of the country, needs to some degree, 
also, protection from the Indians, because valuable mines have some- 
times been given up, from their incursions; and other districts, rich in min- 
erals, cannot be even explored, for the same reason, _ 
"The silver mines of the State of Chihuahua, though worked for cen- 
turies, seem to be inexhaustible. ‘The discovery of new mines is but a 
common occurrence; and attracted by them, the mining population moves 
generally from one place to another without exhausting the old ones. _ 
make the mining more effectual, onerous duties and. partial restrictions 
ought to be abolished, and sufficient capital to work them more thoroughly 
and extensively would soon flow to the State. New Mexico seems to 
as rich in gold ore as Chihuahua is in silver; but yet, less capital and 
greater insecurity have prevented their being worked to a large extent. 
To develop all those resources which nature has bestowed upon these 
two States, another condition of things is wanted than at present prevails 
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beral. ©. eg? 
Is there at present any prospect of such a favorable change? a. 
The Mexicans, since their declaration of independence, have been 1n- 
they have not learned yet to-govern themselves. It co ardly 
pected, too, that a people composed of two ‘diferent races, who 
mixed: but not assimilated themselves, should, after an Oppression of three 
centuries, at once be fit for a republic. Fanaticism alone may overthrow 
an old government, but it wants cool and clear heads to establish a new 
