New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-12-21
FILLMoREAN INTERVENTION.

and responsibilities culpably incurred.
FiLLMOREAN INTERVENTION.
The course of Mr.. Fillmore's Administrs-
ton on the Haytian question finds in The En-
press a defender Of congenial tastes, endowed
with sufficient ignorance Of the facts and de-
gree of mental obfuscation adequate TO such .
labor. We will notice one or two Of its asser.
tons:
gThe true reason why Abolition Editors here are 30
moved with sympathetic for the besotted yrsn.
Faustin the First is that that dignitsry Is afsro-a
woolly head-and his neighbors, the Domincans, whom
he would ike to kill burn, and destroy, are iHthe man,
tchitS" .
This is the reverse of the fact. The Domini-
cans are in the main people Of Africa" blood.
Their President, Baez, is a mulatto. So says
the Annuaire des Dear Mondes for lc5i-2, IN
sneaking of the Domnicans and their ideas
in this matter:
The intervention Of the United States u stll moro
slked than that of England for lays down as con-
.dition either annexation protectorate AMI the
Americans would bring TO st Domingo beside the FRO.
'testsnt influence, the prejudice Of color, whicn would
there wound fow.iflAs Of the population beginning with
President Baez, himself a man OF color
This is no new fact il is as notorious as the
existence of the Dominicans; and yet Tae En-
press does not know it.
Again our neighbor says:
"Iwas at time when this besotted people the Hsy
tans animated by that spirit OF ferocty winch Baroar
ism constantly manests toward people les savage
than Itself were threatening 10 overrun ST. Domingo
ard reduce Il 10 their degraded condition. that this
Government Joined its efforts 10 these OF England and
France prevent the catastrophe which must necesa
MY ensue
This is also contrary to the truth. The
Hayticn ms, as people, are more intelligent, more
civilized, and in better condition than the
Dominicans Witness the fact that they have
q considerable and increasing foreign com.
merce. The Domisicans have none, or next
10 none, and what they have is declining, while
home trade is a thing scarcely known among
them. The Haytians cultivate the soil, while
the only industry Of any account practiced in
Dominica is the most primitive and savage
the herdng of cattle. This shows concusivey
which of the two peoples the more deserves to
be called civilized
In the face of these stupid appeals to SYM
patty, and to the prejudice against color which
the Dominicaps themselves so much dread, it
is proper briefly to recall the facts in this quar-
/ rel between the Haytans and Domncans
The two parts of the island were for years
united under one government. A revision OF
the Constitution was decided on, and con-
yention of delegates, fairly chosen from all
parts, assembled to perform thar work. The
Haytian delegates, because they were very bar
barOus and ferociOus The Express will perhaps
say, we're in favor Of making religious tOler.
ance one of its features, and the D0minicans
were for tolerating none but the Catholic rel-
sion The liberals were in the majority, and
gained their point by fair vote. The Domin-
leans, being thus beaten, seeded, on the South
! Carolina principle. Other difficulties existed
NO doubt, but this was the turning point. The
Haytans tried to save the Union by fighting,
but failed, and were about making another at
tempt when Mr.. Filmore's man came In to stop
them. tits true the question had, in the mean.
time, become complicated by the change ofthe
Haytian Government from republic into its
present form; but to represent Hayti as merely
endeayoring to subjugate neigbboring people
without any reason but the barbarous love Of
conquest, is a perversion. 1t seems to us that
the case of Hayti against Dominica is about cs
good as the American Union would have against
South Carolina, were that chivalrous republic to
rebel ard set up on Its own account.
But there is one thing in The Express that
We applaud and rejoice at. That is clear and
ineligible statement of the fundamental prin-
ciple Of the Filmorean system Of foreign
policy. Here are the words:
IL was Intervention of the right stamp. There was
no fbustering ab0utit II nterv ention for
Revolutionary party aSainst the established and uni.
versally recognized Government of the country"
This Is saying as plainly as can be that the
United States ought only to intervene against
revolutionary parties and in behalf Of estab-
blshed Governments Bravo, for the Fillmore
school Of politicians As represented by their
present mouth.piece, they are well qualified to
emigrate to Naples or to Russia, and to receive
the contempt Of every true American Re-
publican.