Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1825-08-26
VOL. H.-NO. 81.
From the New York National Advocate.
HAYTJ
Ez'ractJiV~ ;cer rcterd Nis city, dded Port az:

! IAHTJ.
Extract iio tcser rcte:rd in s citv oieL Port az;
Prince Juiy 1895.
| ''Nhie am writing tie French commissioners
publishing tic Declaration of Independence, and the
men OF war firing salute The French national
vessels lying in the harbour have hostcd
French dag All the foreign merchants yesterday
to wait upon the president, ard to-day are prepar
ing for the great dinner ana the ball be given by the
government. TO business has been done here Since the
5t inst and tue reoicngs will not be terminated for q
week TO comc-crery countenance bespeaks happiness,
aut al Is merrmcut and gaiety The great cheer that
prevails on this occasion is not because tie ayens
are given to frolic but because the recognition Of
Tue independence of Hayti by France totally un-
expected The arrangements made with France must
seriously iniure the English commerce with the peonIc
In future, the French will initiate the English style of
goods and bring them here, with the adv antagc paying
but hall ducs. The army ordered assemble next
thursday 10 be paid OF, when it expected it vii be
dsbanded The soldiers will receive their discharge,
with pleasure, ana urn their attention TO cUltivatinr
The SOIL In this event. there will be an accession of
nearly forty thousand persons the agricultural inter
est and, consequently considerable increase of the
revenue by which the government will be the better able
to meet the engagements with France. thank Gel
that have lived To this worthy people take their rank
among the nations of the earth. For the last twenty
seven years have been inabitant OF this island and
am now the oldest white resident in FIayt During that
period have been witness all She bloody and
run"ts revolutions which have taken place. and have
seen with what devoted PATRIOTISM untiring persever-
ancc, and untaiDg bravery the Hayticns have broken
the iron ofsayery, which for century and half,
had bound them down to the dust Of oppression and
bondage.
II true France has in this instance done an act of
Jisce ana awakened the Haytiens 10 Joys hitherto
known For This proceeding size will command the ap-
probation of all ~ho value the blessings of liberty and
w!io capable of estimating the deserts the people
who have unadcd BY any power but their moral
courage, literally cred their bonds driven from
The land the tyrants who oppressed them and RISING.
from actual servitude, established liberal form of 90
vcInncnt and system Of laws the best calculated to
promote social order, OF rational aud elevated character
.6ut when call to mind the nnumcIabe evils France
Las inflicted upon the I{aytiens, it but poor
repatriation that she should be the first TO recognize their
political independence. History will transmit 10 pos
terity tale of long continued msforlnes and of hor-
rib!e dsgracclu and inquitous fortunes endured by
the tlayliens while under the colonial system, with
which no parallel be found, and for which COM
! Incnsuratc atoncmcnt can be made.
Since the death of Christople, and from the time
boyer acquired the control OF the whole Island of
ftayG, the claims of this country to be ranked among
other independent nations, Lave been clear and ndu-
btabIc. To the United States the people of Havti
have long anXiously looked In the structure of YOUR
government, and the general policy of your laws, the
lay tien have found an example which they have been
emulon' TO initiate; and they have not thought it pre-
9hiPnohS 10 believe that the people OF enghten
Ell country following the impulse Of their planhropic
Spirii, and remembering the POLITICAL conduct of Louis
AVl. oiFrance towards themselves would have boon the
hrs 10 extend their hand of fellowship artlsa ueopie
who from state Of aaSIiage, had OsiotI their own
salvation and independence. On the part of the u
States, II would have been measure less polite
with view to commercial advantages, than worthy Of
the high toned liberaly of your national character
1t vas measure the adoption of whlc the Iiaytisns
and the hole world had right expect. in confor
mty 10 lie principles apon which your republic is estab
tshed and necessarily resulting from your character
as Christians.
am yet unable TO say how the order of things
will affect the American commerce. Al all events
property will be more tlLn has been for the
last 10 yeas Coffee has got TO s. So cotton 184.
As the European vessels depart which will be
about the lst OF August, coffee viii tall again to SlC.
Flour mess pork, rice aud soap the only articles
that ~ i'll sell.
UAYTI.
1t is well known fact, says the Boston Centinei
that large OF money has been appropriated
years and lies useless i'll vault for the pa yinen OF
the balance of claims which American citizens 20!
losses OF property in their transactions with Hayt The
Haycn government has repeatedly acknowledged that
balance due Tire American citizens, but they coh
not and 'cOud pay until the settled
convention to he adjusted by Commissioners of the
tons, duly accredited such previous the negotiation
Many of these claims held by Bostoniaus and Bali
moreans.
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