Mexico Quotes
All contracts, not in opposition to the laws of the State, that have been entered into in foreign countries, between emigrants who come to settle in this State, or between the inhabitants thereof, and the servants and day laborers or workingmen whom they introduce, are hereby guaranteed to be valid in said State
This ordinance opened the door somewhat to slavery again as Austin said it would “permit families to bring the necessary and indispensable house servants and laborers.” Earlier Mexican laws had abolished slavery in most of Mexico but left the door open in Texas. See {613642} and {613644}.
Mexico, Law governing Texas, May 5, 1828
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See {613644} for the earlier decree which this modified.
This was a compromise. Most Mexicans wanted immediate emancipation of all slaves. However, Stephen Austin and others desirous of attracting colonists thought that this would inhibit too many American Southerners from immigrating to Texas. Slave enthusiasts wanted no prohibition on slavery. The Mexican Emperor issued this compromise but was soon thereafter overthrown. The law was then repealed by the revolutionary government and emancipation was immediate. However, Austin was able to persuade the junta to keep the law in place for Texas only, and so it was. A similar law was being debated by Congress but the Southerners were able to block it. There were still slaves and slavery in Texas. Four years later {613642} there were more restrictions on slavery.
Statement made during televised debate with Walter Mondale, October 21, 1984 (see citation).
JOUAM was a nativist workingmen's organization founded in 1853 to resist the competition for jobs from immigration. See related quote for membership criteria. At its peak it had over 200,000 members. “Mechanics” was the term used for a wide variety of skilled craftsmen from plumbers to bricklayers. JOUAM is the oldest fraternal order in America.
For a similar application of the law to all see the Massachusetts Body of Liberties over a century earlier.
This quotation was a slight paraphrase from Article 14 of the Republican Party Platform which had been adopted unanimously at the Chicago Party Convention on May 17, 1860. This was the convention where Lincoln was nominated. It is not known who originally drafted Article 14, although Lincoln's agents were very active in the platform drafting process. In his later campaign speech, Lincoln ran on the Party Platform.
as opposed to bringing slaves into the territory of California. There was a recognition that the institution of slavery corrupted the whole society. It therefore was preferable to use Chinese contract labor to diminish agricultural labor costs. If the price of admission to the union was to allow slavery, this paper and its readership would think it too high and would rather be independent.
Ruffin is more widely known as the man who fired the first shot of the Civil War.
Van Buren was Ambassador to England at the time.
One thing that made this a very unusual declaration was that in 1381 an act (see {616281}) was passed in England which prohibited anyone from leaving the country without the express permission of the monarch. In this case she gave Gilbert the right to take any Englishman who wanted to go. With all the rights of Englishmen from Magna Carta on down, the right of emigration did not appear until modern times.
Under the Mexican law which governed Texas at the time, slavery had been much curtailed. Austin and many others wished to expand it “to permit families to bring the necessary and indispensable house servants and laborers”
The highest court in New York. At the time only U. S. citizens could own land. Since the majority of the population were farmers, this was a critical limitation with a major inducement to citizenship. Today, that motivation is no more, and critics of our immigration policy are concerned that there is no longer the desire and commitment to be American but just to make money from the American economy with a cultural and political allegiance elsewhere,
It was the common practice in France to allow citizens to work in various occupations only if they received Royal permission. Some obtained monopolies in certain trades for certain areas. This is an excellent case of a reform which completely reversed previous policies. The authority doing the reform takes credit for it ignoring that the abuses and evils that it corrected were operated and maintained by them also. This quotation was also used in arguing the Slaughterhouse Cases before the Supreme Court in 1873.
This quotation illustrates the racist view of Native Americans that prevailed at the time. The Mexican government invited settlers and would give then the Indian lands. In addition to Mexicans who came to Texas, many Americans also went to Texas, changing their citizenship to Mexico. Later, they banded together and broke from Mexico and Joined the United States. The Indians lost most of their lands.
For every illegal immigrant working in the United States, there is at least one company or individual who is also breaking the law by employing him/her.
Realizing that as a mulatto she was subject to claims of slavery in New Mexico, she tool the precaution of getting this affidavit to protect her freedom. An interesting side note is that she states that she is “not bound by marriage or slavery.” For a woman the state of marriage meant the loss of most of her civil rights and was even then put in a similar category to slavery.
Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern half of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and to the east by the Gulf of Mexico. Covering almost two million square kilometers (over 760,000 sq mi), Mexico is the sixth largest country in the Americas by total area and the 13th largest independent nation in the world. With an estimated population of over 120 million, it is the eleventh most populous country and the most populous Spanish-speaking country in the world while being the second most populous country in Latin America. Mexico is a federation comprising thirty-one states and a Federal District, its capital and largest city.
