Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-04-24
EfAYTI.

"lhe whole history Of the Republic of
ltayti, has shown the utter unftness Of its
people Tor any condition but that of thraldom.
30 far as its government is concerned, il has
been the constant sport Of dissentions, and,
is at this moment, rent by opposing "a tons,
with bnt little prospect Of returning quiet and
concord. The institutions Of Hayti are NOM
inaiiy free. The blacks have made the ex-
pertinent OF self govcrnment, and the res IL
ought TO convince both English and Ameri-
can iana'lcs' that to bestow freedom upon that
oenigh'eo rnce, is to give a dagger into the
hands OF a madman, with which he NAV work
obstruction upon himself and all around. In
beauty and fertility, no island in the world
can conp are with St. Domingo. With hut
little labor the boun'eous earth will reward
The hopes of he nusbandman. Yet, save the
Wild luxuriance Of nature, an air of ruin ard
eesolatlon p~ervades this unfor' innate island.
Amid lis most .avored spois, the gaunt form
o. famine is often seen. Distress and want,
such ne move the soul with horror even in the
crowded haunts of large cities, are familiar
things IN a land where Providence has been
most mUniicent TO man. The INDECENT hab-
lis OF a degraded race have spread a general
blight upon both national and individual PROS
peTity. I'VE are noi ,oisc enough 10 be so
free" was the remark of one of themselve,
NOT many years since. In a single sentence
1t conveyed the secret of their miserable con-
dition."
The above is an extract from the Richmond
Wing, whose editor appears willing to say
almost anything to disparage the negro. If
the history Of Hayti proves that the pr per
condition of its inhabitants is slavery, then
every one who asserts that ell men have a
heaven.desce ded right TO liberty and that
freedom is their natural state, proclaims a
false doctrine, or else Creative Wisdom erred
in bestowing that right upon men who are
unfit for any condition but that of thraldom."
As for the agricultural prospects of Hayti, we
should think that a son of Old Virginia would
be the last man in the world to allude to them
Us the editor of the Il Richmond Wing has done.
LIE! him look at home, and compare the pres
snt impoverished condition of Virginia with
its original fertility and g~arden-like luxu;i-
ance. 1t was declared upon the floor Of her
General Assembly no longer ago than 1882,
that upon some Of her former plantations
there had sprung up a second growth Of pines;
and after the lapse Of century, the wolf had
returned to howl over the desola tions which
slavery had made. Her worn out fields, COW
cred with the black rust Of slavery, speak in
tclligibly of"a general blight upon both ma
iional and individual prosperity" While in
many other States poor land is made fertile,
Slavery is cursing the soil of Virginia, and
"tho indolent habits of a degraded race" is
enstamFed upon it. The wild deer spor, upon
the plantation at Mount Vernon, and the home
which the people Of America invest it, has
been offered in the market, we understand,
for the paltry price of four dollars per acre !
We have heard Virginia described as State
which abounds in caves and dead mems bones,
whose people are continually Boosting Of their
distinguished ancestry, talking of a strict con-
siruction of the Constitution, or inquiring the
market price Of niggers.
Let us glance for a moment at the %sta,isti-
cal history Of Virginia, and see how it will
compare with that of New England. In set
Element, Virginia had the start of New Eng
land thirteen years; her c%olonists had a less
warlike people to contend with tan had the
Puritan fathers, and her aboriginal inhabit-
Ents were fewer in number than those of New
England. She had 1000 square miles Of ter
Iitory more than the latter, a good soil, valu-
able minerals, and a salubrious climate (; while
the climate Of New England was less uniform
and healthful, granite and ice were her best
mineral productions, and a comparatively
barren sell the most tempting offer she could
make the husbandman. Virgi mia was the pet
Of the mother country (; New England the
home OF the sxiles whom Britain had driven
from her shores. In 1901, the former had a
population of 10000, while the population oil
the latter was 10000. In 1851, Virgins
numbered $4,000, New England 1886 ,O0O.-
The census of 1910 gave Virginia l,24o,0Ot
inhabitants, New England 2,239,oO A
the first date We have given, New England
had gained SO rapidly upon Virginia that hel
population was treble that Of the latter ; at tn,
second date, she had more than four times a,
many /; at the last, less than twice the mum
Der. The diminutlon in the relative differ
ence betwesn the two is easily accounted 70
il we bear in mind that while comparativel.
few have emigrated from Virginia. there ha
been from New England a large and contin
nallv Increasing stream of hardy adyenturer