New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-04-18
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Intervention.
The coolest aodacity Of our day-the most com 4
plete running into the ground Of the principle OF
manifest destiny by National intermeddliDg with
other peoples sfairs-is the proposition sravely /
made and seriously entertained that our Govern
nens should involve itself in the civil war now
ruthlessly raging in YucatsD, lately department
Of Mexico. There, ss elsewhere throughout aexl'
co. the great mass Of the People are Aborigines-
the race 30 wantopy and wickedly reduced TO bon
dage by Cortez and his fellow rufians more than
three hundred years ago. Up TO that conquest this
people had lands agriculture, arts, rude c'vilza'
ton. and cities whose very ruins shame anything
since erected But Spanish rspacty and lust OF
gold painted n 'revel in the halls OF tho montezu-
mas, and prosttuted the names of Civilization and
Christianity as cloak for their own vileness
Discipline superior strength and superior weapons
trumphed over numbers the Spanish conquerors
became the lords and masters Of the country they
seizeI ali the land all the trade all the power,
making the aboreines their serfs and beasts Of
burden Not content with robbing the conquered
of everything but themselves, the victors have In.
vented a system Of selling the debtor for debt
termed 'peonage; aud as the landess, depressed
and ignorant multitude could hardly avoid running
in debt to the owners Of the very elements, the
great mass have gradually fallen into condition Of
serfdom which is just less obomnable than per
petusl slavery, and that is all.
At length the hour long waited for has struck
The Yucstecos il, the governing class-ind'
lug Mexico involved in perilous and exscting war
have declared Yucstan independent OF Mexico, and
neutral between her and the United States. They
have Of course nothing 90 hope from the parent
State, and for the present nothing to fear They
have for some year or more been coquetting with .
our authorities, hesitating between independence 7
and annex alton TO the United States At length a
clap Of thunder stsrtIes them-nesrly the whole
Indian race IL would SEEM has revolted aud com
menced q war Of determination against their life
long taskmasters and oppressors The ruling class,
enervated by generations of Incidence and seDsu-
Atty, prove arrant towards with scarcely excep
ton. The men fly instead of fighting leaving their
wives and children to be the prey Of savages niu-
rated by ages Of degradation and oppression
Hundreds If not thousands have thus been masss'
cred, haoiendas and villages burnt, even the chief
towus are besieged, and the late naughty and i'm
perious masters threatened with determination.
Aud now not merely the Yucatecos but United
States fanctionaries and even American journals
are talking of the humanity and duty of an inter
vsntion by our Government in behalf Of the
quished party Their onesided reports OF the
rsvages Of the Infatuated Indians are displayed
throughout tho land, without word Of the oppres
sions which provoked them and Americans are
sobsrly recommending course OF which the result
would be the resubjugstion of the many to the few
--ofth ignorant and savage to those by whose
tuition they have prohtted so i,tleof the cultva-
tore and artisans, such a. they are to the indoent
and impudent monopolsts of Heavens free boun-
y-ofthe virtual slaves TO their so lately mperious
masters.
Perhaps we shall do something of this sort
but since the Autocrat Nicholas il likely soon TO
need help In similar job in Poland and the British
Aristoc-ac and Irish Absentee Landlords have
another brewing in Ireland, we might as well wait
and see whether II viii not be best to take them
all together or let them all alone. Our vote goes
for letting them alone, most decidedly.
~ A Republican CRUSADER responds At n
length that we cannot make room for to our
ments on his letter In our last, insisting on the
glory. wisdom, fitness. of his proposition that a
slfchossn Committee Of five handred Americans
should provide themselves with vessel uniforms,
banners, 20 andeo over to France to tender their
services In peace war to the cause Of French Tor
Karopean) Liberty. He writes with good deal
Of poetic fervor, but does not convince US We do
not believe the cause of Human Liberty in Europe
nscds any saoh spaamodc, theatrical aid. II any
thing scere needed In the way Of suggestion or
counsel We do NOT think such q Committee,
% made up, would be well qualified to give il.
And % far from considering our people generally
qualified 10 incte and counsel the French our pre-
sent imp ression is that that the French ahead
Of US both In hearty appreciation OF and consistent
devotion 10 the great principles Of Freedom and
Equality. Witness their Universal Suffrage abo-
lition Of Slavery, abolition Of Lfetaking for poit
cal offences redac tion OF Salaries. &c Instesd Of
volunteering 10 teach Democracy TO France We
think II becomes us to learn Of and initiate her
And whoever imagines that her people need any
sort Of galvanic, exotic impulse to hold them true
to the cause Of Freedom, We are very sure mis-
takes and und srvslues them. They have not thus
fer deserved dissrust
We have short proposition 10 make 10 our Cru
sader which we think should settle or at less, sd
joarn, our difference. Let him write by the first
steamer 10 Lamartine asking whether such visi.
tstioa - no has proposed is desired and will be sc
ceptablc. and IL the Freach Patriot says Yes, we
90 in Tor it, IL not this fair
Oar correspondent writes ss though he did not
consider blowing. sowing. reaping, sc. in Texssin
behalf Of Universal Liberty would be so agreeable
and inviting ~ IN expedition to France, with mi
fcrus music and banners, As Con Fi.stee from the
Republicans Of the New TO those OF the Old
World thopgh he processes personal willingness