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are got up by men who are at the foot of the ladder and in desperate
circumstances, just as a new political party is started by such men in
our own country. The only object, of course, is the loaves and fishes;
and instead of caucusing, paragraphing, libelling, feasting,
promising, and lying, as with us, they take muskets and bayonets,
and seizing upon the presidio and custom-house, divide the spoils, and
declare a new dynasty. As for justice, they know no law but will and
fear. A Yankee, who had been naturalized, and become a Catholic, and
had married in the country, was sitting in his house at the Pueblo
de los Angelos, with his wife and children, when a Spaniard, with whom
he had had a difficulty, entered the house, and stabbed him to the
heart before them all. The murderer was seized by some Yankees who had
settled there, and kept in confinement until a statement of the
whole affair could be sent to the governor-general. He refused to do
anything about it, and the countrymen of the murdered man, seeing no
prospect of justice being administered, made known that if nothing was
done, they should try the man themselves.
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