The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-08-22

re Free Blacks and Hsyu.
ru.na.e has often been expressed that the
-. n,.sr. OF this country, In looking abroad
so~ . nome never fixed their regards on Hayti
Thi. ts,and is the most beautiful the most
productive. the richest In all our western ar
shlrslsgo; 1t 10 inhabited BY their own race.
!, has free forms Of government IL has schools.
colleges and churches, MI conducted by their
own color. Every post Of usefulness and dis
tinction in an organized community is open to
the black, not only mechanical, agricultural
and commercial, but the professions, the army,
the conrt, with scarce . white face on the
leland 70 relieve the monotony Of the universal
darkness. Tho most fertile island in the West
indies, yes, in tss globe, lying almost under
the shadow Of the continent where they were
born, with none TO modest them or make them
afraid--why do not the free blacks Of America
60 70 Hayti'
It's not because the Haytiens have not been
anxious TO get them. On the contrary, Eth
opia, In that island, has stretched out her
hands over and over again TO America, and
cried ont most suppliantly-come over and
help us. But the American free negro is not
altogether a barbarian. Some Of his race have
visited this garden spot Of the universe, and
have come back and brought an evil report,
net Of the land but Of the jewellers in it,
In 1924, Boyer, the Haytien ruler sent COM
missioners to this country, and succeeded in
inducing thirteen thousand free negroes TO
emigra,e from the United States to that island.
What was the result According to an abo-
lition writer, who, Of course, would not fabri-
cate testimony except on his own side, the
better portion Of the emigrants got farms in
h.
tiyes by their success in cultivation. The
civil authorities favored them and publicly
commended them. This conduct and success
aroused the jealousy of the native population.
Their fences were cut down, their trees CIR
died, and their crops destroyed, in the night
time. So great was the jealousy of the native
population, that the people of the cities would
not buy their produce--thus compelling them
TO dispose of ii to the wholesale merchants, or
70 the officers Of government. Discouraged or
ruined the greater portion ran of-for to
leave the island without a passport was
against the laws Of the country. The govern
ment, refusing to furnish these papers, thus
compelled the emigrants to leave all their prop
erty behind them. The greater portion of
those who remained, disheartened and dis
gusted, soon become rs immoral as the natives,
ana sun more unprinclpied In trade"
This, then, is the reason, and a very good rea-
son it is, why the free blacks of America can
not any more be tempted to Hayu. They had
to run away from African freedom, because
African freedom is barbarism in ST. Domingo.
as it is everywhere else, where the African
race predominates. Never was there finer
opportunity for a negro community to rise in
civilization than was presented in Hayti but
they have retrograded there, as everywhere,
into savage condition, and one which is in
tolerable to the free negro of America The
marriage institution is scarcely known there :;
RIGHTEOUSNESS, laziness and robbery are the
general characteristics. The commerce and
finances of the island have been ruined an
Eden in natural fertility has been converted
into desert. 1t is no place for even the de-
graded free negro of America, it is no home
for civilized men of any color, and it never
will be until relieved from African rule and
placed once more under the intelligent domin-
ion of white masters.