The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1848-05-01

YUcATAN.-The condition of Yucatan is tru-
ly deplorable, overrun as she is by savages, who
are laying vast her fields, burning her cities
and numbering her inhabitsnts. Every account
we receive. from that quarter represent the sit
uation of the people in starving condition and
flying before the enraged Indians, who spare
neither age nor sex. The Commissioner at
Washington from that country has addressed
the following appeal to our Government for
aid
COMMISSION OF YUcATAN IN WASHINGTON, !
April Is, l04S.
So the Secretary of State Of the United States:
misunderstanding have not had the
honor TO receive any answer to the very urgent
notes which directed TO the Department Of
State on the 9TH March last, and on the Sd of
the present month, new and still more urgent
orders from my government obliges me again
10 address the Government of the United States
even at the risk of being considered Emporium
ate, and subjecting myself to the charge of en-
deavoring to withdraw the attention of the De-
partment from other more urgent and impor
tant objects. Yet the actual situation of Yu-
catan is so overwhelming. SO horrible and so
desperate, that cannot do otherwise. With
in the next two months the white race of Yu-
catan must disappear from the country. unless
the protection of these United States should
be extended over that too unfortunate peo-
pie.
need not waste time in drawing the pitia-
bic and alarming picture which that country
presents, according TO the last advices / have
received, dated the 9th of March, because il
he Of al 81 H.
In the sacred name of the living God, the af
frighted people of Yucatan appeal to the hu-
maniiy of their happy and more fortunate
neishoors, the people of the United States, TO
save them from utter determination. Yucatan
only wants arms, ammunition, and few troops
together with small quantity of money. | in
woke this aid by all the sacred ties which unite
the family of men. / request that the dema nd
may be brought TO the knowledge of the rep
resentative bodies of the nation, and, above all
other things, ask that you will have the good
ness to give me decisive answer, bv which
the future conduct of the people of Yucatan
NAV be guided.
There are moments, sir, in which any delay
signifies death and exterminationl
have the honor 10 renew, &C., &c.
JUSTO SIERRA.
Sierra had addressed two notes to Mr.. Buchan-
an previous to this one and had received no
reply. We agree with the North American
that humanity would have dictated some re-
ply expressive of the sympathy of the govern
ment, ifnot of its wish 10 yield the aid solicit
ed. But whatever the cause of his previous ST.
lence, neither the Secretary of State,-nor, we
think, any Amrrican can read this last appeal
without deep emotion. sin the sacred name
of the living God,' the wretched people of Yu-
catan appeal to us, the happy and powerful
people of the United States, "to save them
from utter determination" at the hands of In
dian foes, who with fire and massacre, and
violation, and every horror of rage and cruelty
known TO barbarous men, sweep away life and
civilization before them: they ask this of us,
who of all people il the world are under the
greatest obligation TO aid them,-because we
we have deprived them of the assistance oftheir
countrymen, the Mexicans, and through the
occupation of the custom-house of Laguna-oi
the means of helping themselves.
We trust, if the Government will do moth.
ing in this matter, that Congress will, and that
Immediately. Let it be remembered that what
. is asked and needed is not an intervention be-
tween two parties in an ordinary civil war;
or war between one class, even, rising in in
surrectionagainstIanother class. II is massa-
ere, not war; the victor savages who give no
luuarter-who torture TO death their prisoners
and whose chief victims are women and
children.
FROM MExIco.-We find in the ~ o. Plea
yune of the 22d ult., the following letter from
Mexico which we overlooked on Saturday,