Evansville weekly journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 184?-18??, 1848-05-04
s TUESDAY MoRNIgG, MAY ..


YUc6TAN.-Tae condition of Yueatan is tru-
ly deporable. oterrun as She is by savages, who
are laying vast aer fields, burning her cities
and numbering her inhabitants. Every account
we receive from that quarter represent the sit
nation of the people in a 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:
CoMMIssloN OF YUcArAH IN WAsH4NeToN, /
April Is, 1913.
So the Secretaryof 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
! TO 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 aud impor
tant Objects Yet the actual situation of Yu-
calan is so overwhelming, SO horrible and so
]
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
Ineed 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 it
would be of an odious and bloody character
In the sacred name of the living God, the af-
frighted people of Yucatan appeal to the hu-
mainly of their happy and more fortunate
neigh5ors, the people of the United States, to
save them from utter determination. Yucatan
only wantsarms, ammunition, and few troops
together with a small quantity of money. | in
woke this aid by all the sacred ties which unite
the family of men. | request hat the demand
may b. brought TO the knowledge of the rep
lresentaQve bodies of the nation and, above all
other things, ask that you will have the good
nessto give me decisive answer, BY which
the future conduct of the people of Yucatan
may be guided.
There are moments, sir. in which any delay
signifies death and extermination
have the honor 10 renew, &c, &c.
JUSTO SIERRA.
1t will be seen from the above that Senior
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 to yield the aid solicit
ed But whatever the cause ofhis previous 81
lence, neither the Secretary of State,-nor, we
think, any Amrrican can read this last appeal
without deep emotion. s'In the sacred name
of the living God,'' the wretched people of Yu-
catan appeal to us, the happy and powerful
Ipeople ofthe United States, ''to save them
| from extermination,' 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 m,-because we
we have deprived them of the assistance ofthei
Icountrymen, the Mexicans. and through tht
Occupation of the custom house of Laguna-o
the means of helping themselves.
We trust, if the Government will do moth
ing in this matter, that Congress will, and thai
Immediately. Let it be remembered that wha
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
surrectionagainst another class. 1t is nnassa
ere. not war; the victor savages who give NJ
quarter-who torture TO death their prisoners
and whose chief victims are women ant
children.