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30 MEXICO. complied with in Mexico : I have no doubt, however, that it will bring with it its own reward, as policy is hardly less interested than humanity in the removal of those laws, which, by perpetuating the distinction of master and slave, en- danger the safety of the whole body politic, by setting the interests of one portion of society in direct opposition to those pf the rest.