The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-10-12
Interesting from Hayti.
Correspondence Of the Boston Atlas
PORT All PRINCE August % 1880
THE ADMINISTRATIONS OF crrpRARn

interesting frOm Haytts
Correspondence of the Boston Atlas
PORT AU PRINCE, August %, 1859.
THE ADMINISTRATION OF GEFFRARD.
Seven months ago today General Fabre Getrard left
Port Prince, in open boat for the seaport of
naves, to naugurate revolution against the Emperor
Sououque. On the 18th of January he re entered the
Capitol, 'amid the shouts, thousand times repeated of
Vive la Repubque! vive lie President Gefrard." A
month passed before the revolutionary volunteers had
left the city, or the administration could be said be
firmly established Six months, therefore, have elapsed
since he has been ruler with the opportunity of dsn-
gushing himself as reformer, in Hayt
What has he done9
The destruction Of the infamous seaprison Iabouque
the release Of prisoners upusty ncarcerated the
throw Of ridiculous monarchy and arstocracy, were
cesses Of the revouton and these reforms therefore,
the inevitable results OF the enterprise which he
staked his fortune and fe While the wisdom which dis.
tngushed his conduct in this tnerefore-a
gacity which saved probably the lives Of thousands-s
deserving of the highest honor, the inevitable
quences of hardly be placed among the proofs of
his statemanshp. We must seek for them in his subse-
quent acts.
CANCELLATION THE cAsrRs.
First among these acts is that system of selecting men
oil every shade of color for prominent POSITIONS which has
satisfied the intelligent portion Of both the Haytien castles
and ayed that ntoerant spirit of prejudice which dur
ing former Administrations whether outspoken or unex
pressed was the greatest and the serious OBJ
stacle to the progress of Hayt More has been done
within the past six MONTHS in innumerabe ways to con-
cliate the castles than before Gefrrard in the
United states would be regarded by every one as pure
black; but here, where the shadow of shade is sub
stance he every where regarded coored He
is what called grille Sambo; that is he has only
oneiourh white blood but his skin is darker than fven
his three fourths pure blood would indicate muatto
in strictly technical language, is the offspring of pure
white and pure black, while grife is the child of mu
atto and black or Of two critics. Gen. Gerard's wife
would pass anywhere for white woman, and his chill
dren therefore, by this combination are as we'll in
technical accuracy as in common designation, mulattoes
Some are like their father, dark some like their mother
lghl compleXioned These facts have importance
in Hayti they are to be taken into account in es-
qure too great space to explain this singular fact or
rather, the events and ideas which created it, 1t would
be too much to say that Gerd national idol for there
are stupid fools of both castles who opposed to con-
Citation muaito one day pointed out to me the Co.
vernon Of Port au Prince and the Commandant de la
Place-the first black man, the second mulatto-and
denounced Geiirard in these ludicrous terms "Look
there he said s.the Governor negro, and coored
man has to hold the second rank that's 1;erard,s nolcv
"What would you hayeY' asked. His answer was too
long to remember, but its import that only coored
men should rule "Boyer he said did not do that; he
had no policy" Boyer was a mulatto and the blacks
assert that he enabled the colored monopose the
offices.
An American emigrant told me, a few days ago, that
during all the time OF Boyers rule he knew
of mulato being imprisoned; that, when a black or
muatto went to law the coored man invariably succeeded
in his case and that when they quarreed in the street or
elsewhere the black almost always tainted with
being negro 81 have often heard muattoes say' he
added "that Europe and America were the white mans
countries Africa the negroes but Hayt was the country
of the colored then advise the black to 90 Ia
Africa These statements may naccurate for every
fact OF every kind every subject is disputed or denied
in Hayt or all countries il is the most difficult to get
facts in.
have been made TO create revolution and seye.
raj clubs and conspators have been formed but broken
by aspiring demagogues shoot the President but being
treated kindly by him. confessed that he had consented
10 kill him. and gave him the written promise Of mem.
Der OF his own sta to the when he succeeded
The President handed the confession to the traitor hut
took no other action against him. To-day muatn wo-
shipped Of the country for "treas0nabe cor
respondence' with Sououque She had been one of his
mistresses. Some months ago this correspondence was
discovered and the President for her and spoke
mr. IN har Sha nnty
been overthrown, and other persons might be- This sort
Of spunk is very fine read about but in country like
Hayu IL not so good in action She persisted in her cor
respondence with her ex imperial lover and yesterday
was furnished with her passports free of charge re-
qrfed no guard a,ns Of soldery told to
lace Even action like this does not satisfy
every one Some people, like young Barnacle must have
blood and others again are in favor of even lder
sures than Genrard takes. For exampe:-sMy dear Sir
that was very bad policy; Geirard could have stoppcd
the foolish woman months ago; why didn't he make her
his mstressy That would have ended her
with Soulouqueu
Some men have a respondent genius for suppressino
dissatisfaction; but Getlrard will do well enough until
such men succeed him.
Gelrard has no fear Of overthrow instructions He
speaks freely and frequently OF 1t his public speeches
Ihe other Sunday head him say he perfectly indf
ferent to any such Attempts that he would take no me
sures against traitors until they gathered force ana
eh ne would march against 1t with twenty and put
il down. -
II he got chance to talk to them do no, doubt IL, for
he talks well, and the people hate bloodshed.
" Geirard rules ten years and fails to exnpuish tho
preudces Of caste provided he his present no
Icy (Which do not doubt) it will be impossible most
sincerely believe to oblerate this lingering trace Of slave
ry at all at least by peaceful agencies without an extr
nal iorce-such for example, with France or the
United States. Such would make them unIt.
but would cost too much, and create still greater evils
RELIGION
Roman Catholicism, quiet indifference Christianity.
ana the id0atrous system OF Obeah are the ccf
religions or no religions Of Hayt In this country pro-
tesantm has only slender oohod Of its five hundred
thousand inhabitants less than thousand are even nop
th0lic ;c sho
religion but the greater part Of the men Of the more
educated class are Indifferent to itneiher believers nm
believers nor scoers. At the period of the great Revou
ton, which ended in the expulsion Of the whites of tho
ha!f million Of slaves then living hundred thousand
had been imported within the ten preceding years from
Africa by the slave trade. ~
VI the rest, the greater number were little better than
doators for the colonial shareholders had not made the
dscoveryso credablc TO the intellect of our Southern
ricndsthat religion, properly perverted might be made
the most powerful Of all shackles on the slave thew
tented themselves with enslaving the BODY Fonr
ren years Of fearful of races eleven years more
war Of caste; (between Potion, the mnlato Pres
ana Chrlstopbc the black Kng,) although n few mis-.
SUMMARIES nom England came out, the negro monarch
attempted to emulate the act Of Henry the Eighth were
ny no means conpcnia 10 the conversion of people
now iree, indeed butt stll further dcmoralzed I'd