The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-04-26
For the Union.
THE PRESENT AND FORMER STATE OF HAYTI.

II is certainly unnerestng to hear sometimes men
belonging to countries which indeed bear attach
ment to slavery, and are in the great majority, in
cned to elevate the African from the position 1t now
occupies express themselves in way that our aboonists
hardly may expect We have here correspondence from
Porau- Prince published in the Augs5ugr AHgemein,
Zeitn paper of great authority, and occupying
spcuo6s place among the first journals of the old CONT
nent which take the pleasure to translate literally
"PoRr-AU-P PRINCE January 2o-If one would cricise
the question of the negro emancipation after our HAY
ten circumstances the result would be rather comfort
less for phanthropist, to whom veracy would yet
be of value than the triumph Of his humane efforts
This country has made since its liberation progress
whatever The population partially lives upon the pro-
duce of the grownwild coffee plantations the remaners
the French dominion Properly speaking plantations after
the model of the English in Jamaica, the Spanish in
Cuba do not exist here ayt is the most beautiful and
the fertile of the Antilles 1t has more mountains
than Cuba and space than Jamaica. Nowhere the
coffee could better thrive than here as IT especially
likes mountainous soil But the incidence OF the negroes
has brought the formerly splendid plantations to decay
They gather the coffee only from the gron-1cd trees
The cultivation Of the sugar cane has rey disappeared
and the island that supplied one-ha OF Europe with
sugar receives its wants from Jamaica and the
United States To the banana tree and the hawid hogs
the free negro almost alone that he by his azness
has yet died of starvation on this truly paradisaca
island The mpovershment increases vsibfy since En-
peror Soulouque holds the imperial scepre in his hands
appears especially from the enormous depreciation OF the
money and the entire disappearance OF coins as well
inhabitants of this island Since the black ruler has mo-
nopoized onefh Of the whole coffee produce for his inn
pra use and since the price OF coffee in the interior part
has been much depressed by patented commissioners
who have the sole right TO buy the same, the farmer
hardly finds his trouble rewarded if he only gathers
it from the tree. By the hereby daily increasing in
dolence the negro will consider his shirt and
pants unnecessary lusus article and adopt the
cheaper fashion of his African ancestors the Niger
Industry is wholly wanting. Hayti imports all manu-,
featured articles from Europe and the United States and
has, besides the coffee and dyewood nothing to export
Even the beautiful mahogany wood comes from the repub
can part of the islandfrom the Dominican republic As
at the time the London Worlds Exhibition the govern
Of Hay requested to transmit also contr
BUTTON nothing could be found worthy of that demand but
the golden of Sououque Dhich has been made N
Ports The few houses built in the capital Port-au-
Prince since the overthrow of the French colonial
men belong almost exclusively foreign merchants who
of course whites, enjoy citizens rights. Besides
these few elegant houses the canponbas of the French
men-owar would have found last summer very little de
strucble matter, if the French commandment had
ried into effect his lombard the city, all the
rest is either nothing but rubbish and ruins built
such cheap MATERIAL that in all probability the destroy
ing material 1.-THE cannon-bas) would have been more
precious than that be destroyed Under such circum
stances would have been easy for Soulouque
defiance every threat if he had not feared bockad,
more than a bombardment; for there is always such
small quantity of goods hand and the ayen industry
is impoent that if blockade should only continue
during year. the whole imperial army the nobility
and the court ITSELF would be reduced to the print
tive costume of their black congenerc relations in Sudan
Hotels exist this interesting capital at ALL and tn,
foreigner who like the black farmer from the country
does lying the toot-deep rubbish in the streets il
placed in the greatest embarrassment The proprietor
the small dirty coee-house the harbor is indeed
kind lodge, of Christian love- foreign European
for dollars daily, in his abomnable barrack But il
this occupied then there IL help from nobody,
his imperial majesty, to be hoped for to relieve TRAVELLER
who has arrived without letters of recommendation in sucl
agreeable situation We know persons who in this i'm
peral capital remembered with longing the far bivouac
in the American woods in the midst Of brown Indians
| bowling monkeys"
| So far the correspondent of the Augsburg Gazette w
add hereto in order to illustrate the above statement
few statistics, which will need further commentary
The expectation from Hayti amounted in
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