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356 with the most beneficial effects; and I cannot but think that this example, seconded, as it is, by the wishes of all the better-informed Mexicans, both in the Capital, and in the States, will, very speedily, produce such a change in the feelings of the community at large, upon this subject, as will enable the Legislature by a national Act, to dispense with restrictions, which are completely at variance with the spirit of all the other institutions of the country.