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Since this last effort, the Indians have been 

 treated with more humanity, each Pueblo be- 

 ing allowed a league or two of land, and per- 

 mitted to govern themselves. Their rancor- 

 ous hatred for their conquerors, however, has 

 never entirely subsided, yet no further out- 

 break took place till 1837, when they joined 

 the Mexican insurgents in another bloody con- 

 spiracy. Some time before these tragic 

 events took place, it was prophesied among 

 them that a new race was about to appear 

 from the east, to redeem them from the Spa- 

 nish yoke. I heard this spoken of several 

 months before the subject of the insurrection 

 had been seriously agitated. It is probable 

 that the Pueblos built their hopes upon the 

 Americans, as they seemed as yet to have no 

 knowledge of the Texans. In fact, they have 

 always appeared to look \ipon foreigners as a 

 superior people, to whom they could speak 

 freely of their discontent and their grievances. 

 The truth is, the Pueblos, in every pait of 

 Mexico, have always been ripe for insurrec- 

 tion. It is well known that the mass of the 

 revolutionaiy chief Hidalgo's army was made 

 up of this class of people. The immediate 

 cause of the present outbreak in the north, 

 however, had its origin among the Hispano- 

 Mexican population. This grew chiefly out 

 of the change of the federal government to 

 that of CentruUsino in 1 S 3 5. A new governor, 

 Col Albino Perez, was then sent from the 

 city of Mexico, to take charge of this isolated 

 department ; which was not very agreeable 



