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Njurious measure; and to cling to a system which we know, by certain experience, is producing crime, misery and death, during every day of its existence?" In Mexico, September 15, 1829, the following decree was issued; "Slavery is for ever abolished in the republic; and consequently all those individuals, who, until this day, looked upon themselves

as slaves, are free." The prices of slaves were settled by the magistrates, and they were required to work
with their master, for stipulated
wages, until the debt was paid. If the slave wished to change masters he could do so, if another person would take upon himself the liability of payment, in exchange for his labor; and provided the master was secured against loss,
he was obliged to consent to the transaction. Similar transfers might take place to accommodate the master, but never without the consent of the servant. The law regulated the allowance of provisions, clothing, &c., and if the negro wished for more, he might have
it charged, and deducted

from his wages; but lest masters
should take advantage of the improvidence
of their servants, it was enacted, that all charges exceeding half the earnings of any slave, or family of slaves, should be void in law. The duties of servants were defined as clearly as possible by the laws, and magistrates appointed to enforce them; but the master was entrusted with no power to punish, in any

manner whatever. It was expressly required that the masters should furnish every servant with suitable means of religious and intellectual

instruction. A Vermont gentleman, who had been a slaveholder in Mississippi, and
afterward resident at Matamoras, in Mexico,
speaks with enthusiasm of the beneficial
effects of these regulations, and thinks the example highl