Elizabeth-Town gazette. [volume] (Elizabeth-Town, N.J.) 1818-1821, 1820-12-05
From the Hartford (Con.) Times.
ST. DOMINGO.

lOF tue miSiOFtuutS W tbC Otitioh ~SuS
and the American newspapers are fiiie'
with an account of her trial, there IS an
other subject Of much greater impor'ahc'
TO the country, if not to mankind m gen
eral, passed over almost without noiice
IL is fact very familiar TO almost every
individual here. that The island OIL HIS
PAMELA was wrested not many years age
IRON the bites by their slaves; aud TIA
lis coloured inhabitants we're divided into
two separate governments, the Que elective
under the late president Potion, and the
other imperial, uuder Christophe. II APP
pears by receut news, that Gen. Boyer,
The successor OF Petion, is DOW overrun'
lining the whole OF this rich extensive
island, (Christophe being dead,) and at
tempting the establishment of republican
institutions upon The ruin OF the cruel y
ranny which existed under the imperial
government. Should his plans succeed,
aud his measures be pursued with mode
ration, we shall soon be presented with a
new era in the progress Of Liberty and
Independence: the second tepablic oil this
hemisphere will be republic Of negroes !;
located in that part of the world where
| the means of the enslaved African are
most frequently heard, aud heard with
the least sympathy. AT such time, any
thing which serves 10 illustrate The char
acter Of Boyer, may not be embarrassing
TO our readers, as he will probably gieea
tone to the new government. About fl
teen or twenty years ago, for some cause
that may never hare been thoroughly
explained, one of the armed vessels OF the
United States captured, aud it is said,
most shamefully piundered, one OF the
cruisers of president Potion. The crew
Of the captured vessel we're brought in
prisoners, landed at New London, in fhis
stale, aud afterwards conveyed to Nor
s;ct, where they we're confined several
months in the county gaol. Among this
number was lieutenant, who belonged to
a high order Of masons, and who on that
account partly, but perhaps, more from
his external appearance and talent OF in
situation, gained the friendship OF bis
masonic brethren in that vicinity, was
freed from the tediousness OF confinement
by their interference. and boarded at their
expense in a respectable white family
This lieutenant is the same man who now
presides over the free blacks of ST. Do
mingo. When any black, situated as he
was, charged we believe with the crime
Of piracy, and the tenant Of dungeon.
on.. .L..,n -. ~.,,,cb ,tta,tson I'm fhic state
can find friends IN land Of strangers,
aud brothers among white men, he must
possess some native superiority. Thus
much Of the mind-for the heart we can
tell better tale, aud produce amore dis
tinct outline of great mars protraii.
Since the completion Of his success, differ
cut from most other men in prosperity,
he forgets not those who had befrieDded
him in his adversely. Very recently en-
qniries have been made by him, whether
the family in which he had formerly
boarded, wsre in need OF pecuniary as
sisiance. Aud although his offer OF aiding
them has not yet been accepted, this sim
gular instance OF lis liberaIiiy and graft
tude, after the lapse OF SO many years,
and to a family residing IN distant com
try, is 90 less worthy OF being remem-
bered TO his honor. We have not room
for all the reflections the situation Of
affairs 10 the island might suggest--the
effect it may have upon the sIase.srade,
the West Indies, &c.; but if our ideas Of
General Boyer are correct, where can the
free people Of color ia the United States
be transported with more propriety than
| to ST. Domingo? Would il not be more
feasible and more philauthropic for the
American Colonization Society to send
them there than to the desert coast Of
| Africa? At the former place they may
expect to be received with open arms Of
friendship upon fertile soil at The latter
they must be exposed to the fatality oil
disease and the ferocity Of barbarous
population.
| TTn looking over some late missionary
intelligence, we observed that President
Boyer had given $500 to aid the Methodist
Missionary cause.-Cons. Adu.
Extract Of a letter from an officer on boGra