Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1858-02-12

/ 1ucalah-Afe
citing the Revolution There.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 10Th, 1858.
Publishers Of n Y. Day Book
In your issue Of the 2lst ut is capital leader on the
present deporabe condition and gloomy future of Mex
leo. The personal knowledge of of the editors ell
titles his opinions to increased weight all matters
pertaining to that interesting but blghted and ruined
country" Mexico is indeed, in the last throes of revo-
luton, and look with every arrival for tdngs of her
utter dissolution. The whole tone of your article is
striking manly prophetic but to the concluding para
graph desire to add few words. You remark -
That CommonfOrt will be overthrown we have no
doubt and that he is the last able to preserve even
the semblance of federal power equally proba-
bic, and with general dissolution and breaking up IN
to fragments into several States like the former Re
public of Central America, we may suddenly find our
selves compelled to intervene, in order to keep off
tain European governments who have long had an evil
eye upon the waning life of the unfortunate Republic
In support of this well expressed opinion allow to
say that information of very reliable character is now
in this city pointing to the policy and designs of Eng
land respecting portion, at least of Mexican territory
We aude to her long and wematured plans for acquir
ing lucatan The Unton of 18th ult, had able
article headed Colonization SOut[ward-Vews of Mr..
Calhoun In the of the article reference made
to, and quotations given from MIR. CalhOuns speeches
during the debate in the Senate, in May I848 the
resolutions of Mr. Hannegan, authorizing the President
to take temporary military occupation of Yucatan
Application it will be remembered, was made by Yu-
catan to government for from the mercess
war waged by the savages against the unfortunate white
population of the peninsula, During that debate in
which some of the most able and distinguished Sena-
tors took active part the views and policy of Eng
land fully discussed No one entered more ar
IDENTIFY into the discussion than the present distinguished
head of the Department of State He advocated
y, the interference of government to the white
population of Yucatan from the terrible fate which
awaited them. The Commissioner sent here by the
government Of Yucatan boldly declared that the war
which devastated the peninsula the result of British
machnatiOn, that British guns British ammunition
&c, freely furnished the Indians by agents OF the
British government at the Belize that Great Britain
wanted to possess the whole of Yucatan the Belize
settlement, already touching upon of the finest
parts of the peninsula
followed that England had long meditated designs upon
Yucatan that she would make many sacrifices to pos
sess it, that its possession would be invaluable to her.
that held, she would get Cuba, and then she
would literally, in the emphatic language of Gen. Cass
the Gulf of Mexico as she has already done the
Mediterranean into English The possession of
ucatan would give her, without Cuba the abso-
lutte control of the Gulf and Caribbean, constituting the
great nterropical sea of America-the outlet for all
the variety Of products known to the climate and soils
of fifty degrees of latitude 1t would enable her to lock
up the Mississippi river, and place positive embargo
upon almost entire southern coast. Where is the
man who would consent to this And yet at this
very moment iii imminent danger of it than
of our statesmen imagine.
The very condition of things exist in Yuca-
tan in l848, at the time application made for
interference The application then warmly debated
and such statesman Mr.. Calhoun arraycd himself
against the mission of mercy The question not, it
is true, pressed to vote temporary cessation of
hostilities took place e result, in all probability of
manGuverng British agents. alarmed, perhaps, by the
turn matters were taking in the Senate but still enough
said by those opposed to the measure, to discourage
and chagrin the Yucatans. not likely the offer wIl
be tcncred They offered at that time to unconditional
surrender the dominion and sovereignty of Yucat;n
to the government afOrding relief Suppose she
makes application to England for aid and succor will
she not Jump at the offer 2? Yucatan is by this time
it is believed independent State, the revolution
which has been i'll progress for many months has been
successful i'll deposing the Barrera government. In
dependent she OF course transfer the dominion and
sovereignty to whom she pleases. But, apart from
this condition, will Mexico hesitate to avail herself in
her present destitute and stringent condition. of any fair
offer for the penihsula? How has the central govern
ment regarded the peninsula of Yucaan for years past
Has single dollar been expended in aiding to avert the
calamity which hangs her? Has single
man been sent to her relief? Let what the views
Of the late government are, upon this subject
In the Mexican Extraordinary of December 10Th, 1857,
is this significant clause in paragraph treating of the
condition of the country The only place where the
reaction has met with is in Yucatan. There
the reaction is reported to have covered the whole
State. This fact shows some mismanagement the
part of the State government AS hare said BEFORE
TUcddn expensive appendage TO Nerlco md may
some day great misfortune TO the nation!" What
does this mean? Is it not full of significance?
In a recent editorial in the States, inmation was
given out that Mexico in order to raise funds might
sell to England the peninsula Of Yucatan. Similar in
tmations have been given out in various other quarters
and the impression is gaining ground that the present
direction Of affairs, both in Mexico and Yucatan, point
clearly to this result Our statesmen will then too
ate where they have erred in not watching closely
= the doings of our ambitious and avaricous rival Let
+ her once possess Yucaan, under the guse Of a
+ protectorate and what becomes of our boasted Mon
roe doctrines? Verbum sap had intended giving the
views of of the distinguished statesmen who have
expressed themselves upon this important subject but
find my letter growing under my pen, and must close
: may write you again more fully upon this subject.
/ MONROE.