Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge 15 Mas-Mur
Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge 15 Mas-Mur
Knight, Charles, 1791-1873, Ed
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A considerable number of Spaniards accord- ingly annually emigrated to Mexico, and there acquired great wealth, as omcers of government, merchants, and adventurers in mining. As many of these Spaniards were possessed of extensive property in land within Mexico^ their descendants the Creoles settled of course in that country, and their numbers were continually increasing. The Spanish government however seems not to have formed a correct idea of their condition among the natives, and to have thou...ght that the government of that country could only be entrusted to persons who considered Spain as their native country ; it therefore excluded all the Oeoles, or descendoDtt of Spaniards born in Mexico, from all offices of government, and even from commissions in the army. Sueh exclusion ex- cited in them a considerable degree of ill-will against Spain and the Spaniards, which would probably have manifested Y2 Digitized by Google M E X 164 M E X itself in resiitonce and rebellion, if tlicy had not feared that the native population would take advantage of such a cir- cum&tance to cflfecl their own destruction.
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