The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-04-03

Jurors, nor Executive seem to entertain Ger
rect idea of the responsibilities imposed upon
them. Each seems to be swayed by infu-
ences which have no connection with the
Straightforward path of duty marked out for
them. Acting thus it is no wonder that there
should be nothing like concert between them in
the interest of the public. What one does the
other undoes, and 80 between them the Law be
comes q mockery, and its administrators mere
puppets in the hands Of others.
REcIAMATIoSs OF NIcGE2 IMPERIAIIsM
AGAINST THE AMERICAN PREss-HAYTrHS
THREATS AGAINST AMERICAN CrrTzENs.--In
another column will be found a characteristic
Prince in relation to certain alleged intrgues Of
American merchants resident at that port To
monopolize to themselves the entire commerce
of Hayti. This article purports to be reply
to letter from our Port au Prince correspon-
dent, published in the HERALD of the 9th Of
February last Had not our attention been
specially directed to it by this circumstance,
in our columns which the late Mr.. Disraeli &C
cords to some equally magniloquent produc-
tons in his "Curiosities of Literature" As q
specimen of indignant journalism from the
great bootblack empire of the West we have
seen nothing that can at all compare with It.
Christy and Woods delineatiOns of niger ex-
travagances fall immeasurably short Of this stu
pendous effort of Ethiopian rhetoric.
We should state in explanation of this singu-
lor production that it is directed against MEM
Der of respectable American firm at Port au
Prince whom the Fsuale du Commerce suspects to
be the author of the letter which furnishes the
theme for his energetic phillippic against the
United States and its citizens Although
this gentleman is not exactly indicated
by name, the illusions marked in
italics in the article are sufficiently
pointed to leave no doubt as to his being the
party meant. Now, it is not our habit to fur
nish information as to the sources whence our
correspondence is derived, or to occupy our
selves with the suspicious it may please parties
to fasten upon persons entirely innocent of the
taste or the ability to contribute to our
columns 1t is evident that were we to crafty
the natural curiosity which exists upon these
points we would always have our hands full.
Notwithstanding the fixed rule which we pre-
scribe to ourselves in relation to these matters,
there are, however, cases which necesstate
departure from it. Such one we deem to be
the appeal made to us in the following letter in
connection with the article in the Haytien
journal
| TO THE RDfTOR OF THE HERALD.
| 81 FRONT sTRKU. Mach 30, 1853.
Certain letters have within the past few months sP-
peared in your paper, purportng ID have been written
Port Prince Those letters, Il appears have wounded
the sensibities Of the HsytieSs and long and vey
p.pers trying to put the authorship Of said letters upoa
Mr. Ewood Cooper, OF tho house OF Cuts and Cooper
70 their disadvsnasc We have been requested % spv1
70 you for the name Of the parties who furnished you w
hsse OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES but =. you stated 70 gu, Mr. Dei.-
ton, we now Simply ask Of you {, state 70 writing
that the letters In question were not written by Nf.
complying with req lest you viii be doing simple
act Of justice 10 party who Is entirely innocent OF tho
DEllFiE1D & WILSON,
Ofcourse we can have no objection to state that
Mr.. Cooper is not the author of the correspon.
dcncc in the HERALD which has elected such an
explosion Of wrath from our ebony contempo-
rary. II is sufficient for us to know that that
gentleman's interests suffer from the imputatiOn
of intellectual ability to relieve him at once
and forever from charge so damaging in the
eyes of the Haytien people.
1t is worthy of remark that whilst in the
model despotism of France, from which Haytien
institutions are plagiarized, the correspondents
Of the HERALD are never interfered with OF
sought to be identified for the purpose OF per-
secution, the organs Of niger imperialism
should be so thin skinned and sensitive to our
structures. As we cannot find anything in the
remarks that have elected their ire that can
account for such violent ebullitions Of feeling.
we are compelled to arrive at the conclusion
that they entertain q latent fear that the chief
danger to their ridiculous farce of q govern
ment lies in this quarter. If the effect Of this
apprehension be to drive them into violent ex-
cesses against our citizens or into infringe
ments of international obligations, we can tell
them that they run the chance of speedily re-
alizing the results which they seem 80 DESTROYS
TO avert. 1t would require but the reiteration
Of few more such threats as are contained In
the article to which we refer to restore the
dukes, counts, barons and court newsmen Of
the great Haytien empire to their original oc-
equations Of the wisp and the backing brush.
| ELIMINATION OF THE REVIVAL EXCITEMENT
The religious excitement which has made 20
| Al. r. t.,