Context

Context of Message from the President of the United States, with communications from the government of Yucatan, representing the state of suffering to which that country is reduced by an insurrection of the Indians, imploring the protection of the United States, and offering, in case it should be granted, to transfer the dominion and sovereignty of the peninsula to the United States. April 29, 1848. Read, referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, and ordered to be printed.