New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-05-01
Yueatan- sympathy
Editorial Correspondence.

Editorial CorrespOHdsDee
wAsKpGroE, Saturday, April ~
We have had rich Tins 10 the House TO-DAY
Tha Private Calendar was in order bat pat asloc
and the House resolved first to clear the Speakers
desk, on which sundry Messages from the Presi'
dent. &c had accumulated Ono Message IN re
ference TO the French Revolution aud Mr. hushS
course thereupon--oi course, fall OF sympathy WIN
Democracy, tho masses, and all that. ie"
paragraphs Of il were read, and the House easily
anticipating all that followed, stopped the reading
and ordered the whole to bo referred and printed
30 far. all was easy But the next Message
called attention to the deplorable state of things
existing 10 Yucatsn, enclosed letters from the com
missioner Of the worsted minority, and cautiously
soeees,ed without plainly recommending tne
violent Intervention Of this Government Ia favor o.
tho landlord race sgsinst the insOrgent masses
The President states significantly that application
has been made 10 other Governments as Wei as 70
ths-thst the Yucstecos after the manner o. satan
in the Temptation offer to Us, or whoever VIII
halo them the country they have lost II We VIII
regain IL for them-nnd reasserts Mr. Monroes IN
defensibls illumination that we cannot permit shy
par, Of North America to become the colony OF any
q seosation. and various motions to refer 10 posi-
pone, to commit. TO lay on the table, &c were made
in rapid Succession. interlsrded with fragments Of
speeches Mr.. Rockwell Of Massschusetts' want
ed to discuss the general subject OF territorial ecqu'-
siton, and the proper course of this Government IN
relation thereto. but the Speaker very properly,
ruled this out of order aud kept ruling It so, with
the hearty consent of the House.
Mr. Roor of Ohio At length obtained the floor.
and made by far the best speech have heard this
Session He was against all intervention In the
Affairs of other countries bat especially against this
Intervention in behalf of PROSTATE Aristocracy
against the long trsmplsd masses. He wildly ex'
posed the inconsistency of rejoicing over the Revo-
luton ia France and undertaking to put down that
In Yucatau and in n strain of pungent irony and
true eloquence exhibited the wrongs of the Indian
race, the degenerscy and cowsrdice OF their late
masters and the futity OF the pre,exts for the in
PREVENTION now proposed. We are asked 20 show
our sympathy for the shelteress, the distressed,
the furnishing but when We were asked to incur
much smaller expense to save the Irish Millions
from starvation. that was put down as unconstitu'
tosal then how can this be otherwise The Span
sh race offer to give us the cOu ntry they have lost
Leafs Philippe and GuiEot would have gladly done
the Ike. if we had chosen to recover France Tor
them from the UOuses oil the Republic. Why
shosla We single out for such sniiesiation Of Cur
sympathy part of the Mexican race with which
we are as war-,ho yreassrs' whose character we
90 despise and dstsstl pity the sufferers in this
conflict bat cannot vote TO involve the country in
thor qasusL-such are some few OF the ideas ed
vsncsd by Mr.. Root. He closed by moving the
pestponement OF the whole subject TIL next Tues
day, and that the documents be meantime printed.
The House voted the printing, referred the subject
to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and then e
o'cloek) sd iosrneS Slow work. nc.
I'VE been forced by tho large space devoted 70 the
foreign news ard European correspondence to omit
the Message rs.rri above We shall sndeAvor to and
room Tor II In the Evening Edition OF TAs ff1bsnel