The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1853-02-10
A FEW FACTS AGAIN BROUGHT TO NOTICE.

cant, and the balance OF trade Is against us.
Our annual imports from Russia amount to
the value of fifteen hundred thousand dollars
our exports to that country, to between eight
and nine hundred thousand. Our annual trade
with Prussia is worth little more than
hundred thousand dollars; with Sweden and
Norway, about seventeen hundred thousand
from Turkey, we import eight hundred thou
sand dollars worth of goods, and we export value
to the amount OF two or three hundred thousand
With Hayti we carry on profitable trade
which, notwithstanding the discrimination pre-
voked against it by our mean policy towards
that island, has steadily increased during the
last ten years. In 1910, our commerce with
Hayti was as follows:
Exports to l,027,8l4
Imports from l,5l4,77l
Exports to 1,350,188
The value of our trade with Hayti is in fact,
greater than that Of our trade with Prussia
Sweden, Norway, and Turkey, put together
and yet, while we maintain expensive missions
in those countries we doggedly refuse to ap-
point even q Consul in Hayti!
We cannot too often bring this fact to the
notice of the American People. 1t is one of
the many proofs of the subjugaton of our Gov
eminent to slaveholding rule.
Lately we had occasion to expose the in
sulting interference of our American agent.
acting under instructions from the State De-
partment, in the affairs of that island. We
believe in the doctrine of Intervention. A ma
ton has right to interpose its good Offices in
certain circumstances, for the promotion of pa
cifc relations between hostile States, or for the
protection of right against might. But when
its conduct has been such as to wound the
feelings Or interests of one or both of the parties
concerned, an attempt to play the part of peace
maker is absurd and offensive. Our Govern
ment had insulted Hayti; had at one time
meanly obeyed the mandate of Napoleon, to sus-
pend communication with her, for the purpose
of starving her into submission to his will had
used its Influence in a general Congress of the
independent States of this hemisphere, to pre-
vent the recognition of her sovereignty; had al
ways refused to acknowledge her as a member
of the family of nations. What claim had it
to interfere in the affairs of Hayti? What
respect was due to its agents!
But its conduct appears still more offensive
and inexcusable when we consider the nature
and intent of its interference. Read the Sc
cret instructions from the State Department to
MIR Walsh, contained in letter on our first
page, communicated to the New York Tribune
by citizen of Hayti. They reveal the hostili-
ty of our Government to the Haytien People.
1t interfered, not as peace maker, but par
tsan--not with any view to the welfare of
Hayti, but solely to build up Power in the
island opposed to its supremacy, and which
might afford us the means of arresting it's pro.
gress. In the pursuit of this object, as we
showed some weeks since this Government ut
terly disregarded the policy of the Monroe
Declaration--the true policy of the country,
though the measures proposed by certain dem
agogues to carry it out are not always safe or
judicious, and sanctioned foreign interference
of the grossest kind in American affairs.
We referred to the retributOn that had
overtaken it in the occupation of SANTANA by
the French. The report of such occupation is
now denied, but it is not denied that there is
an arrangement between France and SANTANA,
by which the former, whenever it shall please,
may take possession Of that important station.
What matters it if actual occupation be de-
ferred till more convenient season. On the
other hand, what have we gained by our dis
graceful conduct! Foothold in Dominica The
favor of the Dominican Government Room for
a colony in that white Republc'n
Read the following mysterious paragraph
from the National Intelligencer, containing the
latest information from Hayti:
FROM ST DOMINGO.
The Spanish steamer Isabel II arrived at
Havana about the 10th inst from ST. Domingo
where she was welcomed by the inhabitant.
with many demonstrations of rejoicing. She
confirms our previous information that the story
of the oession of SANTANA 10 France for u naval
station is entirely without foundation; also.
that the secret ftibustering project set on foot in
81. Domingo had completely misedrrisd In the
absence of any knowledge as to the meaning
OF the latter part Of this sentence we quote
from the Journal Of Commerce the paragraph
referring to it, as follows:
III the Spanish inhabitants of that island
gladly consented 10 the admission of eoioniss be
eau~ they supposed them 10 be their friends. gen
srai Indignation had snsued on discovering The
true aims or tendencies Of M. - and his
associates. The dduentuers had not yet trod
upon the soi Of S. Domingo, and probably
icoiid not venture 10 do 80 on learning the unan-
InoHs and desperate resistance Uhieh awcitsd
thsmn
This We presume, was the expedition with
which Mr.. Walsh, as mentioned in one of his
dispatches, threatened the Government of Sou
louque. 1t has been got up with rs little noise
us possible, and the newspapers have given
mere limitations that such an adventure was
on foot. Ii is plain enough that the adventur-
ers have looked to the action Of our Govern
ment a. sfording them q chance TO effect
Judgement in Dominica where they could carry
out their scheme Of aggression. But It would
seem, from the foregoing paragraphs that they,
have been bsfied-that Dominica has been
aroused-in time to repel the dangerous embrace
Of her American friends,
And 20, our wise, humane, and benehcsns