New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-05-21

snirit, but at last gave IN ana aonii'Ueu our
r..s.ls and consuls to full privileges. Ia
der TO do this with dignity, the Haytians
considered that the application for these
v,;v;lepss by regularly accredited envoy
r.s de faclO. a recognition of their indie
"ondsrcs. The claims still remain un-
f.,,lsd and very possibly will remain 50
III there is another occasion for using
them.
But thou Oh we have thus bullied Hayti
into doing what she would have been g lad
10 do long before, had we behaved toward
her in a manly and proper way, we have
not vet allowed her to appoint commercial
.gents in our ports, as we have insisted on
do;ns in hers. A most respectable mer
chant was appointed Haytian Consul at
Boston long since, but up to very recent
day ho had received no reply to his ap-
plicatiOn for the usual erequGtur.
And now we have an agent in the island
sndeavoriDg, fruitlessly hitherto, to medi-
ate between the two divisions. 1t is more
than probable that his endeavors will have
no better success hereafter. II is to Heyti
matter of great consequence that the en-
ire island should be under ono Government,
and the pertinacity of her people might
wall become proverbial. If there are two
iurisdic,iops, there is constant danger of
difficulty between them; foreign powers
have the mesns of stirring up dissensiOns
and keeping the island in a state of social
backwardness and weakness and espo-
cially in respect to the Slavery Propagan.
djsts of the Southern United States, there
never can be any security. The Haytians
know this. aud the attempt made in 1849
80, to plant an American colony in the
Spanish part, is constantly before their
eyes. Under these circumstances, it is
quito unlikely that they should consent to
resign forever the desire and design of re-
annexing that portion Of the island to their
own territory. If they did, they would
make a political blunder, in a direction
whore they have never yet made one, that
is, against their systsmaticEPreservation Of
their nation from foreign or white prcdOm-
nance. To that system they have ad-
hered with marked consistency from the
beginning, and of ell the rulers they have
ever had, Soulouque is the least likely to
abandon it,
That lovely island seems allotted by
Providence to the development of the black
race, and no man who has learned to sur
pass the narrow limits of his own family
and people, and embrace the many NOM
bcrs of Humanity, either In the grasp of
scientific thought, or the sympathies of
common nature and destiny, but must watch
this experiment with the deepest interest
We could wish that our own Countrywide
worlds leader in democratic progress
might lend its strong hand in aid TO the fee
bic efforts of every people aspiring to inde-
pendenco and freedom. But this 'clrcum-
stances forbid and we do not oven ask it.
Our only purpose IN the present uiscuSsioh
of this matter has been to put the public
in possession Of some facts which are not
generally known, and to call to the subject
a degree of popular attention it has not
hitherto received.
One thing, however, is certain, namsly'
that our merchants are now looking into
the value Of the Haytian trade more than
ever, and are preparing for vigorous
competition with England in that market
We are glad TO see this. The increase of
the business between the two countries
will be useful to our producers and no
harm to their customers. by commerce.
as well as by other causes, the world in
general gets forward and at last things
will have a chance to como out right.