New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-04-04
EERuRS EXCEPTED,

Much the lsrger part Of our Bo,Tledse of tao
social and political condition of the sem-cviized
comuuniues of Americs lyiDg ooush OF u--se
don't mean the slave States, out McKee, the
West lhdies ard South Americas derived,
either directly from the letters of merchants
Ergasb or Of tre United States, resident for pur-
posee of tIade N those tries, else from trsv
eleIs who, receiving the hospit4ties of those
merchants, and relying upon them for iniJrma-
ton naturally do but reflect their i'eas. AMI re-
pes. their views. This Information Is ~ dolbt
valuable; nevertheless il is 10 be received
Nth caution, AND before being implicitly relied
upon, or accepted ss giving correct notion Of
tue countries wbeLce il comes, it must be made
to undergo species Of philosophical rect'icatlon
SIMILAR to that employed by astronomers 70 get
rid Of the errors Of refracton and the like, Incl
dent even to their observations.
The merchant. az a merchant and few Can be
expected to be anything more-from the nece:si-
ties OF bis occupation locke at III alters Cny with
microscopic eyes. HIS view is bounded ny ois
ledger. All systems Of policy are Judged Of ny
him ss good or bad according TO the pecaniary
ba sDce which they produce on bis books. Uu-
doubttdIy, ss q genera, dogma, the interests OF
the foreign merchant and of the indigenous cis,-
zen AID cultiystey are, in the long run, Identical;
nevertheless II il DOue the les true that the par
iicular interest Of individual privae fofe'ga mer-
chants, re,ident in toe couDtres of which we
speak, IL, according 90 the view which they taso
of u, aud upon which they act, often dismstri-
90 vha lt ne
Inhabitants We must, therefore, employ those
mercantile authorities with much the sam- eau
ton Which IT ia Necessary To use in reading the
uonbisb bistor'aDs OF the Middle Ages. Those
medieval monks always looked at things IN their
bearing upon the monkitb view OF the Interest" oi
the Church; and in their pages be Ia the great
e.t and best prince or minister Who does moss for
those interests. So, in the idea OF our modern
mercantile Ietter-writers the interest of the resi-
lent foreign merchant is the center toward ghlch
everything Is made TO tend; aod he IL tue great
est statesman and public beDefacsor, of whatever
couurry, VINO does most 10 faciitste the business
Of the foreign merch ants residsntinit; merchants
whose ,Ole ind ana otjecI il is to make mones for
Themselves, aud sometimes, too, IL Is ~ De feared,
at tie expense OF the natives.
We sre led ihso these observations by letter
from Hsyti, by correspondent OF oars which
will be found ia ano.ber column. 1t ia his opin.
! ion, it will be seen, that Ihe negro Empire Of
Hayti ia going fast TO destruction. The frat, ard,
| it would teeu, tie main ground. On which be
ba'e' this opinion is The great and rapid increase
in the depreciation of the paper money Of the
isl-nd
A deprecated and deprecsting currencyis, no
doubt, bad tblps, but lot quite 30 ruinous as
our correspondent seems to apprehend. We
nevet yet heard of q Government that was over
turned by it. Terrible mad dog stories are, We
know, often circulated about what is to happen,
but their result generally, is much Ise that re-
| c0rded in Gold, nlIth's wellknown verses:
prts . fiehr