Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-12-25
HAYTI AND THE UNITED STATES.

agent, to cooperate with the Consuls Of France an
Great Britain for the purpose Of producing amicabl
1 relations between the Emperor SoULoUouE and til
Dominican Republic: The step was taken in CON
plance with the earnest solicitations of the Domin
cans, who were under constant apprehension of out
rage and slaughter at the hands of the Haytiens
The interests of commerce conceded with the die
tates of humanity, and the united interference o
the three Powers was resolved upon to aid the Do
mnicans in preserving an independence which they
had themselves achieved, and to compel the Negro
Emperor to defer, if not to abandon, his threatened
war Of determination.
Mr.! Walsh and his coadjptors commenced their
negotiations in February, 1851, at Port au Prince
and closed them late in the following April They
had frequent interviews with SoULoUoUE and his
Creole Minister of Foreign Affairs, but failed to ac-
complish the object Of the mission. Neither per-
suasion nor argument could induce the Emperor to
make a definite treaty of peace, or truce of ten
years, with the Government of ST. Domingo, which
heregarded as rebel whose subsection necessary
to the maintenance of his own authority. He argued
that nature had designed the whole island to be
under one Government that the constitution of 1913
proclaimed it one and indivisble, and that the Do
minicans, having voluntarily annexed themselves,
had no right to secede After consultation with his
Senate, SoULouoUE peremptorily declined both pro-
positions, but subsequently, through his Minister Of
Foreign Affairs, volunteered positive assurance
that notwithstanding the refusal Of the Govern
ment to make peace with the Dominicans, hostities
against them would not be renewed"
So the affair ended The course pursued by Mr..
FnLMoREs administration in relation to it appears
to us to have been honorable throughout. 1t orr
ginated in none but pure motives; it sought to ac-
sh bufh md ,ohfb he
effort for the time ended in failure, we cannot but
think that it left wholesome influence behind it
in the court and cabinet of the Haytien Emperor
The recent publication of the correspondence re-
ferring to the transaction has furnished the New
York Evening Post and kindred prints with pre-
text for assang the Administration on the score of
alleged inconsistency True to its Freesoil instincts
the Post thinks it monstrous that the United States
should have presumed to question the right of the
negroes of Hayti to cut the threats of their Casan
neighbors; and it processes to discover in this act
of the Administration fragrant departure from the
professed policy of non-intervention. " Mr. Fill
more Fihbuster" is the phrase with which the
Post made its start Against these attacks the Ad-
mnistration needs no defence other than that which
is afforded by the facts we have recaptuated. They
may not convince those whose Abolitionist afnities
blind them to the truth in any controversy in which
color is concerned but by the country generally
they will be pronounced not merely satisfactory, but
honorable in high degree. Upon other points
involved it were useless to reason with an opponent
who will not distinguish between Intervention to
preserve peace between independent Powers and in
tervention to aid recognised subjects in quarrel
with their rulers. The journal which can find no
other term for mission Of peace than /" libuster-
ism" can scarcely be capable of candor or Justice
while the merits Of that mission are in dispute.
We are gratifed to learn that the central organ
OF the Democratic party renders no help to the as
sailants OF the Administration upon this question
The following article, which we transfer from the
Union of yesterday, will be read with great deal
Of pleasure 1t presents important facts in clear
light, and extends strong need of praise to Mr..
FILLMORE and his advisers for their action in the
premises
In general the foreign policy Of President FrLLsonr
administration has not been in accordance with motor
Of what the foreign policy of this country should be-
have been constrained in instances express
emphatic dsapprobation of negotiations which seemed
to compromise the dignity and to surrender the rights
of the United States For this reason any instances
energetic wise administration of the foreign affairs
of the country by Executive whose general policy we
have been constrained condemn viii the more readily
command our warmest commendaton Such an instance
ment in conjunction with Great Britain and France
the sangunary designs of the negro emperor
Hayti against the republic of Dominica.
"By some means publicity has been given to the
spondence between the State Department and Mr. Robert
NJ Walsh its agent in the negotiation for the pacfcs
ton Of Hayti In the various papers which constitute
this correspondence the motives and purposes Of the Adj
minstraton in proerng its good Offices in behalf Of the
Dominican republic frankly and clearly set forth.
In 1921 the Spanish portion of the Island of St DOmin
60 voluntarily subjected itself the Government Of Hay
ii, then presided by Boyer On the expulsion o.
Boyer and Of the wrongs and grievances which
they had endured with repetition of which they
menaced the Domnicans threw off the subsection Of negro
government and established independent republic II
this step the Spanish inhabitants Of ST. Domingo were
driven by the necessity Of sefpreservation Not only
were their political rights and their liberty invaded anC
ramped upon by the black barbarans of Hayti but thu
doom Of indiscrimnate slaughter and determination
necessarily held before them in the threats Of the Maca
| and Dessalines.
"By the most imperious necessity, then were the Do
mincans mpelled to set up independent Government
Nevertheless their act Of separation was regarded
revolt by the negroes of Hayt who prepared reduc
the rebel whites subsection by the strong Of force
All the efforts of the Hayen Government were unequal
however to the reconquest Of Dominica The Spanard
defended themselves with vslor and energy and despt
the disparity Of numbers successfully repealed the inya
sons Of their foes They achieved and established thei
Independence France formally recognised the Republi
1 Of Dominica England and the United States recognise
tby their acts Stl Sououque refused to tn
independence Of the Domnicans and persisted in his Ell
forts reduce them subsection In this uncture,
der the apprehension Of very formidable attack by Sou
louque the Dominican Government solicited the mediato
Of the United States, Great Britain, and France, to
store possible peaceabe relations with its savage neigh
bors Great Britain and France promptly acceded to tn
r proposition impeled thereto by every consideration
and IFn.4a