The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1858-07-31
Movement 20 Hayti.


There Is said to be a plan In progress for the
purpose Of removing in large bodies the ten or d.
teen thousand free negroes pow living In New
YORK 70 Hayti, or Central America. An inteili.
gent advocate Of the scheme sage:
We select Hayu because IL Is bat weeks nail
from New York, Baltim IRE. Charleston, or 10 fact
az most OF the ports ofthe United States. We can
bay places with sids partly cleared and fenced, and
with bearing cocoa nut ana o.nes tIus ~
acre Our emigrants are Of that class who have
acme means at least men Of good and trious
habits.
We have often wondered that the free negroes OF
the United States do not turn their attention 70
uayti. At first sight, the mystery is ipexpicsoie-
At but = weeks sail from New York, Is this nag
nihcent island, this queen Of the western Arshi-
pelago compared with which eren the glories OF
Cuba pale. There Is not an island OF such fertiiiy
of such rich aud rare resources, OF such romantic
aud varied beauty in the hemisphere. FROM I'VE
fret immortal discoverer to the last Traveller VIZ"
has visited II, every mans heart is nourisheo WIN
its exceeding loneliness There Is no trop'cai
fruit or production which IL does not yieid Ia tue
greatest abundance; no want OF man when ~ can
gos aatiefs; no element OF beauty 10 whioh its ca
auisite scenery is deficient Its mountains are
among the grandest, its valies the loveliest IN inc
world, and its fields 90 fruitful that TWO houts
labor day will enable the most INDECENT Oh lis
a,5itants to keep themselves from the panss OF
starvation.
VIII the abolitonist organs explain to us why
the free blacks of America have ever NANTES ted
such indifference to the island of Hayti? fon may
say that this Is their native isud; that here are
their material interests such as they arean friend
" associations, but how long would white men,
l. .fx t,atr gtnah
yerty. hesitate to relieve themselves by emigration
t such spot? Do We not see the white race even
when possessing a competency, and the comforts
osiife turning their adventurous prows to the most
distant voyages going from England to remote
Australia, from the United States to far of Cali
fornia, from Europe, In mighty mutitudes, to Anne
RIGA. whilst here within weeks sail Of our coast
is the most glorious island in the world; in the pts
session. too of the negro race, and yet our own free
uegroes treat it with indifference, and profess that
they cannot leave their own country! The German
leaves his country. the Frenchnan, the Irishm An,
the American; but free negroes cannot forsake the
place where they were born, even though they al
lege that they are oppressively and uujusty treat
ed aud although the place of refuge is near that
it may almost be considered part of the continent.
Why Ia this? Is the real love of country, or
want of enterprise and energy? Mingled with this
constitutional Incidence, is there not also dstrnst
of their own race 10 that island and lurking APP
rrehension that negro master, whether on the
throne or In the cotton field, is not the wisest and
most mercifui of rulers?
For these reasons we do not believe the New
York plan CT emigration TO Hayii will sue ceed.-
As to Hayti, it is going to ruio, under its present
rulers, as fast as 1t can. Souloque aud bis people
are doing their best to make bowling wilder ness
of IL, but the island has such wonderful exube-
rance aud vitality Of natural resources, and such
inexhaustible powers of recuperation, that even
the black nightmare which has so long rested upon
il, cannot keep down its elastic energies. We wish
that Louis Napoleon would restore it to the do
lied countries. In the event of his refusal, he
ought not to act the part of the dog in the manger
and prevent other nations from interp0sing their
kind Offices. The United States feel peighberly
interest in the welfare of IIayti, and may some
day be called upon to reclaim it from barbarian.
We are no advocates of fllibusterism, but it is q
nice question, which we submit to the abolition
philosophers, whether nation is not, in some sort
it's brothers keeper? We especially appeal to the
Gerrit Smith Maine Liquor Law Philanthropists
whether, the same principle that they justify
the compulsion of individuals to temperance, cse
may not compel, if we can, a whole community to
their own salvation. and snatch their country as o
brand from the burning?