The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-05-14


worse than at the commencement They merely rest
upon their arms till again called into action.
Now. sir. this fundamental principle is violated in the
OF Yucatan and whether from the want OF nclna-
ton. the want Of power in the Mexican governmental
prevent it, equally Indifferent to us in the exercise OF
our rights var is raging within The Mexican Inc o.
the amisics, II Yucatan is part OF Mexico; and II 1t
not this question is at end and this war may change
the entire condition OF that country, which Tomorrow,
10 occupy An enemy is advancing there, who sezing
the cities and towns. and may hold the Notifications
and whom, If let alone, we may find difficult to dis
lodge The authority of the power making the armis-
iice is practically dsavowed; and a party has come
forward, who neither claims its rights acknowl-
edges its obligations. Why sir. if French army were in
Germany and restrained In its operations by temporary
aTms'ee does any one suppose II would remain inactive,
aht suffer some other power to nerpose and take pos
session o. the very State against which it engaged
IN hosties II the Indians should approach San LUIS
as they are now approaching Merida, must we remain
inactive IN the neighborhood and it taken or de-
stroyed. and our OF tier prosecuting the war
vigorously thus essentially impaired NO. SIR, an arm
stce brings duties well rights with IL; anu among
these duties the most important preserve the feaVe
II has been also said sir thai as peace with Mexico
would interfere with action IN this case ana mgh'
compcae relations with that country anu as peace
may speedily come, ought not ihereore' u 'e'Po'e
under existing circumstances. A. -.
We do not propose to go Yucaan for the purpose
of conquest but of projections not to assa the Mexican
government but to discharge its duties Our action will
sistent with the most amcable relations between and
Mexico Our duties, therefore, will not cease the In
slant peace is formed, but must continue u the Yucca;
tese people placed in safety. AS soon as Mexico will
put herself between them and their danger with efficient
means for action, shall retire, and leave the govern
ments to discharge their own duties
9, We could not retire before, because we should find
ourselves in conflict with independent savages-inde-
pendent for the time being-and should have right 10
finish it, that it would be finished and not pre-
cpitatey to flee iomit, leaving our object unaccompsh
diton OF the inhabitants of Yucatan, both civilized and
savage Our information upon the subject IS not pre-
else as we could desire still the great features OF the two
races, both natural and POLITICAL are sufficiently obvious
The white has been assaed by the coored race and
the war; whatever may be the causes OF its origin has
become war OF extermination All the accounts from
our own officers, well from other sources public
and private, speak of the assang party as we should
speak, under similar circumstances, OF our Indians; and
Commander Bgelow calls them ruthless Indians" have
converscd with two intelligent officers, who
hereLeut Porter of the navy, and Lieut. Slack of the
marine copsboth of whom have been among these peo
pie, and both OF whom represent them as inferior
10 our Indians, as well in intellect in physical
conformation Certainly the description OF them given
by the honorable senator from Connecticut, the result OF
his inquiries, agrees its essential points with The char
aceriscs OF the red man OF our own forest That hon
orabe senator, however, spoke of them in connexion
with the workmen of Paris whom he called the BLoUsEs,
from the frocks W ich they wear, resembling the hunt
shirts of pioneers, and the frocks OF the
English ploughmen But the senator II he meant to init
mate as thought he diu that there any points of
resemblance between the French republicans and the
Mexican Indians, except those common to the family of
man, knew little Of the former, and elevated the latter
or, am afraid, ever will be- WI not take upon my
self the defence OF the Partisan people They 40 not
need it and their noble conduct during the recent con-
vusions in France is sufficient TO redeem them from any
aspersOn.
THE extracts which follow read in the Sc nate,
but they inserted here order that the true condition
OF things in Yucatan may be underso od. They are
taken from documents then just laid upon the trhsc but
which have since been printed.l
| md here ia
pondence of officers with the govenn tent, from the
general opinion of the low condition OF the Yucatese In
report on the 10Th March, ls4s afera very b service
Barbachano popular than Mendez In transmit
ting his report Commodore Perry, in his letter the 18th
March, does not express any concurrence IN entenan,
to suppose that the Indians induced to rise in conse,
quence of some difficulties growing out OF the smoyai
OF Barbachano from the government OF fucatan nj the
substitution of Mendez in his place; that pre- Hnlses
made them by the parsans OF the latter Which
finally violated and that some outrages were com
nitted upon them, and of them killed IN the CO tec
ton Of tax Ali this, So would utterly in sui.
cent to account for this great outbreak and for the
shocking cruelties which attend it. But there is
10 doubt the correctness of Lieutenant Hern-
denis information on this subject, as It is not cor
robor ated by other accounts and he is obviously in
error n some important tie hp na
he thinks those who originated It may be utterly over
whemed by the elements they have put in agitation
Tie OBVIOUSLY udipei VI
says that the people Of Merida, Ssa, and its neghbor
hood entertain much less fear Of the Indians and their
hosiities than those of Campeachy," &c.
He says, also, that genema OF intelligence, whom
he encountered Ssal, spoke with great confidence OF
The ability OF the whites to st the Indians and seemed
very confident and much at his ease
In further confirmation OF my opnlon," he adds,
that this OF class, another gentleman OF
the country, of good standing, Don Simeon Peon, who is
the of several haciendas in the interior, stated
that the Indians in his employment had asked for arms,
for the purpose of defending his property Lieut. Hern
Gen, il appears, in Slsal but about day-a time
entirely 100 short TO ascertain the true condition of the
country Subsequent accounts prove that his opinion
respecting the progress of the Indians entirely
GUS Barbachano has taken the place OF Mendez, but
this political change has been followed by no favorable
change in the war. The correspondence with CommO-
dore Perry comes down the 18th of April and between
that day and Lieut. Herndens specuations, affairs had
grown worse and worse.
The consul at Campeachy says, on the gid March,
:" that the Indians gaining strength every day.
Lieut.. Mason, under the date, says 'the Indians
gradually and successfully taking the country They
force. Merida, Sisal, and Campeachy will finally be
TAKEN"
Commander Bigelow on the 25th March reports sttat
things arc daily getting Yucatan"
Lieut. Mason on the It'll of April reports s'In my con-
versation with tina Ex-Governor Mendez of Yucatan he
informs me that impossible for the whites resist the
Indians who are destroying every town, village, etc
killing men, women, and children The Indians now
muster about sixty thousand and divided into four
columns"
The same officer reports on the 18th OF March: "My
opinion from information that can collect, is, that
less Yucatan get troops &C. from some foreign pow