The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-07-20

that nor u.s. was then about fifteen years old So much for
the court morality Of Hayti. The expenses Of the
government empire were, of course greatly in
creased and the Emperor issued, tcithom limit paper
money he required IT. and the effect long in
being made manifest for it has deprecated for the past few
years at the rate Of about l5 20 per cent per annum
The island soon became flooded with nobility and crosses
OF honor distributed without number discretion.
He gave titles of nobility and Office TO those only who had
distinguished themselves by deed of blood cruelty
under the plea of service the State and the backness
whose skin proved them to be undefled type of his
race He made few exceptions to this rule, but very
few aud those familiar with the deeds of barbarous
city that occurred in the revolution of iS4S and subse-
quenty but from them with feelings of sick
and disgust In Of the small towns detachment
of negroes went TO the prison, which filled with
laoes merely because they muattoes and their
maner stood in the door and discharged musket after
musket upon these unprotected people, until finally ia
fgued himself he ordered his go in and finish the
task which they did For this act Of loyalty title of
nobility given 10 the murderer and of honor
beth of which afterwards descended TO his This is
but incident in the long list of crime that stains the
annals of Hayt whose history under negro govern
ment will never be fully known to the world.
The population of Hay has always been over-estima-
ted and does increase for many obvious reasons
strongest of which the low state of morals such pro-
mscuous intercourse of the knew so many
deaths among children here and this is not surprising
the becomes exhausted and enebed by the
sive and universal RIGHTEOUSNESS prevailing among all
classes Another and strong of depopulaon is the
too frequent practice of mixing up Roman Catholic rites
with Fetichism which is accompanied with African drums
and dances, generally ending in debauch and blood In
cases of sickness they have 10 0bee-man African
doctors who employ supersttious rites and lamentations
which almost invariably death. They are even
guilty Of frequent inshuc Of cannbasm About three
years since remember there was much excitement and
talk in Port Prince by it's having been discovered that
the bodies OF young children sold pork and per-
in the interior actually found in the of pack
ing them in barrels This hushed up however,
by those in authority. These facts well known
those doing business the island but kept quiet from
interest
Does this state Of things result from too sudden emanci-
patton from The natural nferori,y of the racer leave
this for Others decide Let those who have taken up
the Of the black race without regard to their proper
claims the rights Of their brohersthose who nd
vocate the abolition Of slavery At all hazards the
dissolution of this glorious Union-those who would by
the emancipation Of the slaves in Cuba help bnild up
African empire upon borerset them pause and con-
slider whether either the black white population ever
have been likely be- benefited by sudden
patton. NORTHERNER