Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-01-23
IIANTI-

HAYTT.
The state of afriirs in this country is ac-
curing increasing interes. in the Eyes of the
American people, and a crisis is evidently
fast approaching. Various means are resor-
ted to by designing men in order to dispar-
age the Haytien government. and enlist the
symp1thies of this nation in behalf of the
Dominion, or Spanish portion Of the ~popula-
ton of this Island. Such epilhcts as 'L&e
6iach and bho9y Rcpa]'ic," are found t. be
words OF power against the II l%ytiens, when
used by those who know how strong and deep
are the prejudices Of our countrymcm against
a colored skin. Morris this the first time that
that people have been made to. know the inten-
sity of this feeling. Ever since their existence
as a separate nation, WI as a people, have
treated them in a most shameful and con
temptuous manner.
ST. Domingo is one of the most fertile, as
well as the most healthy of the West India
Islands, and is among the most important
countries in a commercial point of view with
which the United States is connected. Had
this government been willing to follow the
example OF France and other nations. and ac-
knowledge It's independence, we should have
been admitted to privileges which would
have secured to us far greater az advantages than
those we now enjoy. But the hatred of this
nation for the black man, is ever stronger
than the Traders thirst for gold; and its love
for a republican form of government less en-
during than its aversion to a colored skin.
Could the acknowledgement Of Haytien in
dependence been made without subirctinr this
government to the necessity of receiving a
'nigger ambassador its independence would
doubtless have long since been acknowledge
ed; bat to recognize as a minister plenipoten-
tiary, one whose complexion was the same
degraded hue as that worn by American slaves,
was an exhibition Of democratic principle for
which the people Of this country were wholly
unprepared. Tia; the government of Hay,i
was republican no one doubted, that it was
Independent France herself admitted; vet to
acknowledge it as such would operate i%njuri-
ously upon the "peculiar institution Of our
land, whose supporters could not endure the
idea that, 'the black and bloody republic of
the West Indies should be greeted as a sist, T
ration by their ,chue and bloody republic.
Considering the degraded condition from
which the HhytienS emerged, the difficulties
they had to contend with in the very outset Of
their career, and the Disadvantages under
which they have ever labored, we think they
have done quite as well as could reasonably
be expected. The history of their existence
as a nation has shown them to be quite as
worthy ofrespeet as that republic which first
plunderad the rightfIl possessors oftheir land.
and then hunted them down with imported
blood hounds; which steals men 10 till the
plantations of her Peoplc,an m entire provinces
to divide into plantations. 1t would indeed
be strange if a people that had been held in
slavery, had been deprived of the advanta-
ges of intellectual and moral instruction,
should, the instant their shackels were bro
ken, stand forth as men of cultivated intellect
and clear moral perceptions. The school in
which they were educated was not one of the
most elevating character, yet we are far from
believing all that is said Of their mental and
moral interiority.
Recent Developments will force every can,
did and observing mind to the conclusion
that this government is playing a deep laid
game with Hayti,designing to effect by frldd
what the armies of France were unable to ef.
feet by force-the ro~-subjugation of that Is.
land. The political changes which have IA.
ken place in St. Domingo within the last few
years, originated mainly in the mal-adminis,
t~ration of government by those selfish and de,
signing men, who, like many of their white