The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1848-06-20
From tho North Amencsp.
THEsKING OF YUCATAN.

n IklEfhlNG OE IuCATAH..
We published, on Tuesdays 4 statement,
from the National Inicllgencer that, accor
ding 10 letters from Yucatan Of the dale Of
1 April ii, the Indians Of the county had o.
lccted a King, who had taken the name of
The last Of the ancient kings Of Maya. and
was crowned, on the 0lh Of April, amcng
Tic ruins Of The old aboriginal city Of Chi.
jchen Itax. The name Of the new king we
ert0heousIy printed 'I'icul Xiu; /; ought to
have Been fNiml &ru, which was the name
Of the last representative ofihe royal race,
at the period, more than three hundred years
ago, when Yucatan was reduced BY the
Spanish Conquistador, Don Francisco Mon.
lhjo.
| The election Of the king by the lnGians
of Yucaian. if,rue, is q most extraordinary
event as indicating the rapid revival Of the
old national spirit and developement Of Sc
cret insureciionary designs among the de-.
see danis Of the aboriginal civilized races
of Spanish America, from which we have SO
often argued the probabilities Of a new kind
OF revolution, and the prospect of the final
destruction Of some OF the creole republics
Of NOrih and South America by these lndi-
an races.
The ancient civilized nations Of ALlerica
were those Of Mexico, Yucalaii, and Central
America, (rlI politically distinct and inde-
pendent ot each oiheb though very similar
IN character, arts, and nsfiiulions,) in the
North; and those Of Pe,u, Bego,a, (bolh of
these races resemble each other in their gov
eminent and c,siom>) and Arauco, in the
Souh. All these nations, txcep the last
/ named, had arhiai governments, ni
which the three North Amercan ones were
a kind of m litary despo'ism; while those cf
Peru and Bego,a were religious autocracies,
the kings being hierarchss--Dslai Lsmas----
regarded by ,lreir subjects as iHcarna,ions, or
al leasb descendants Of The national divini-
lies. The Araucanians Of Southern Chill,
less advanced in the arts Of civilization, had
-aHd ssiil huve--a kind Of republican gov
ernmenb regular enough, but with an hercd-
itary arisocfacy always in rule, bearing a
rude resenblance TO some of the ancieis
European republics, compounded Of the
powers of piebians and pa,ricians; h9t
coarse ard imperfect as their institutions
were, their fate has illustrated the superior
s,rengihu Of a free over subject peolsi for
while all the monarchies OF America easily
fell under the assault Of tho Spaniards, tie
Aracanian republic as easily maintained lis
Independence; and, 10 this day, Araucanians,
Though degeneraied f'om their original state,
are as fee as when they met and beat the
first Spanish armies Of Invasion in pitched
fields.
The old monarchies were broken to pic.
ces; their princes, the sese,lis, the s0cn the
iincas and the vassal nobles---,he pills, the
Jaciques, the curdcdSc,--yanished sudder ly
.l-or gradually, during three hundred years
of subj clion and conlempi--away; and the
popular masses sank into that condition Of
calm submission, Of melancholy, torpor ana
siagna,ion, = stupid Indifference to life and
death, general disregard Of all things, ex.
cept the mere animal wants Of the Inomen,
which all travellers and creoles have been
disposed to consider tie tue and national
traits of the race. Thus writer's have al
why's been asionshed a, The spparent want,
among the Mexican and Peruvian Indians,
Of all recollection Of their ancestors, their old
,uonarchirs before the times aud the coming
of the Spanards. II would s,sm, hove r,
III i all this insensblily 10 an illusion, or II
nut unreal, that il is mere Temporary stupor,
-apoliiical COMA Of d,y, generation, an
age, during which the national .piiit only
sleeps, but is not dead; and out of which the
Indians, awaking at any unexpected moment,
my start up, alive and in arms, Peruvian,
as III the days ofA,ahualpa,--an Aztec, ~ in
he reign Of Monte suma,--a Macegual oi the
fircs old warrior race Of Mayaspan. y
The Peruvian Indians, are by common coll
sent, supposed, to be the mi,iest and mos'
submissive OF all the degenerated races. In
he year 1850, after two and a half ccntus
ries Of The most patient servility, when NJ
creole dreamed that they retained tho slight.
est memory Of the past, or any care except
TO eat; drink and sleeps on sudden they
hurst into furious and universal insurrectiou,
and, as suddenly, crowned Inca, linesi
descendant of the Children Of the Sun, was
found at their head, commanding them with
all tho blind reverence, amounting almost to
alteration, which were the rights Of the an.
Client monarchs. This was the famous in.
surcciion of Tnpac Amanr, which lastod
two years, was put down only with the great
est difficulty, and was marked by all those
atroci,les Of unreIentng hatred and savage
revenge wiich have, in oul day, converted
i Yucaian in such scene Of feN and desola.
lion. The war was one Of exterminaiion,
| like the present Yucatan var; The mild Pc
ruvian was, in an instant, tiger bowling
lor blood; the new Inca was Nh educated
nan, who was anxious TO spare the ecclrsi.
as'ics, the castles or halfbreed, and even, il
is said, the creolcs--all Of Peruvian birth