Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1851-05-01
Correspondence of the State Sentinel.

BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS, April z, 1891
DEAR EDITOR THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL
For old lang syne send you the following condensed
translation of long letter from distinguished AleX
can, think the both good in itself and likely
interest your democratic heart:
90 have arrived at the city of Mexico in time wit
ness the inauguI alton of Arsta whom believe to be
the last President this Republic will with its present
extent of domain. The people are dIscOntented, the
church is Disconnected the officials dscontened and
nowhere there any golden saves heal these discon-
There must be eruption let this poison
Gus heat Assuredly there will be breaking up like
the breaking up OF bomb-she in the republic, for in
the last year the common people talk of 1t
necessary The poverty and disorder that regns
in every public department. the schools and hos
pitfalls, is truly distressing.
q depart to visit the Worlds Fair and occupy my
self in Europe for year, and believe there will be
great changes in my country before | return.
Last winter passed in the West Indies, visiting all
the islands touched by steamers and San Domingo be-
SIDES As the saws, " God has given them every-
thing but men," The French Islands in a horrible
of suffering and confusion. The whites sink
ing under the brutal power oil the blacks and their prop
erty IS decreasing in value fast that many families
Who independent few years ago. have not enough
left to 90 to France the United States with. lady
whose husband left her with good and three
daughters, reduced that she forced
to the marriage of her eldest to a negro,
porter for her husband, but under the laws OF
equality and fraternity promug gated from France, he
has become a magistrate and her superior. You will
understand that friend to Emancipation, but these
and their numbers enable them abuse the whites. To
my conception this is just in the French Government
put the whites under the feet of the negroes. 1t
would be wise to limit their privileges until they
endowed with more instruction | that
these islands shall be empire of hope the negro and
that every mode he shall be equal to the white but
will consent that he shall be master and tyran,
and degrade the white to be his peon.
81 In Jamaica, which is sublime picture of tropical
beauty the negro have all the of power and
luxury without any of its anxietes. The British Queen
londes the negro in her bosom, if he the
beloved OF her lovers the dearest of her children
jet black wOolly headed officer next in his red
the Governors table, and his delicate English
wife all disconnected at the contrast in their
compilations. This officer seemed to have knowl-
edge of American affairs and had visited Washing.
ton lately he inquired with interest whether color
ed gentlemen would not finally be admitted to Congress
through the exetons of the free soil party He had an
idea that the principal object of that party the per-
feet fusion Of the in the United States. did not
understand the subject sufficiently explain what
the ultimate mark of the free soilers what their prob
ability of The handsome English lady observ-
ed with tattering glance her negro lord, that the
stupid preudces of the Americans about the color OF
ones skin conclusive evidence of their backward
ness in civilization"