New-York daily tribune., 1859-08-01

I 90 ynn.s were never nie1's N rebCcD; s'htt' ~
creed eyeD. they IeveI thus corrupted ihe'r save
/ The Sp.Ulsh ID. o'b.r ssDd, we're OF al ns9 ns
ise mos in,oersD, ard tbey succeed, 10 tie East
| ern dlvi,00 ~ it- island i1 iDerafiDg the SEPT
nent mt" the creed ui their b0Ddnep. } 4. see
/ tow the better L1,ure OF The negro tIIImpss over
/ i! Tbcy bate toierstoB IN the abstract and
principle" but il tier hie they encourage i and
give il every protection
| WHITE LAWS.
| Think have slr.ady mentioned that n Hsy..sn
Courts ,he code of our Southern States - fever''d:
! there tl. testimony oi bla.h agalA-. ~h4Ie e
| refused. here the Evidence Of 8 y Eite agslGst
black is void There, slave being himself ehat-
! tel-ih some Stats held real e-Jste-cannof, u
Dis own pane, bo. J property; tere, the idndanrn-
tai article o. al their C0nsami0ns is-the words
were fret spoken by the b,sek Robespierre, Desss
| bpes-" heneeforwsrd DO white sbsll ever put hs
foot IN this Island in :be capacity Of resden,
proprietor" Ia ;he Southern States, marriage
| between a black ard q white is Illegal: 60 antago-
nis:ic 10 Southern IDEAS Of Christianity, that waite
hUsbaBds-niDus tte bond-often sell their coiored
wives: here, SO abhoTent 70 Hayuan perceptions
of re.pectabty lin t.e eye OF the "a" ls the union
Of the races, that, if 3 Datve woman Should marry
| a foreign white she would instantly lose her na-
| tionaGty and be regarded in tl.1rs as i)relgnsr
/ alsoi To one who hss never lived where tae pre-
| iudices Of color, IL Use common pafase, are Oh
| The boot" where the whites are 60Hn and tie
| blacks are IDastefs-wherT The capacity OF me ne
gro for self government and s-f sustenance - no
| more problem than the 81 ullar capacity oi me
| Saxon race. where the color of The skin is Betser
! the i0dex Of humanity nor tne measure OF lnteI-
| oepce j. is ficHlt 20 conceive how exceedingly
| ndicrous these Pagan Black laws of America ap-
| pear Our Slave Code, and It's appendices IN the
Northern States are wurse thsn the Hsytisn White
| laws for thew were The offspring of an lGdu0tao!e
p.c.ssity, snd were provoked by fourteen ye.rs OF
slaulhter and two centuries of the ioulest oppres
sion But what has the negro ever done to us, eX-
cept 10 labor un.rIDgy for our pecunafy interest,
! as cOptrsdistinQu' shed from MS Owo, :hst "e
| should msnifest sucb fear and hatred of hm ss the
Slave Code OF the South displays in every page
| THE MASONIC ORDER ~ HAYTI.
The Masonic Ofder in llayti = very popular, nu-
m.rous and inn0ental. In l-jl. Mr. j. inform
| I'd US there were tnirty-One lodges. tb,r'y-fJuT
| chapters and three Are0pagll, IN the Empire. lie
| did NOT know the Duu,ber OF bro;h-rs lt must De
veIy great; for one sees the symbols 0i the lLS-
| terbity wherever be goes. :. NJ austin the
| Tirst," noticed % the Report, held the bonora-
| bic ofice of Grand Protector, Emperor Pope,
| Grand Protector of the MasoDs. leading officer IN
| tie heather NaudOux Orier-lmportint posi-
tons these for man born slave, not long ago an
| overseer, and now, in BIS old age, an imperial
| exile Let ne I've in hope II We could not well
| rount higher than he-the Emperor Of an Empire
| Whicb BE- called into eIls.ence-surely, also, we
|
| COMMERCE OF HAlTI.
| He furnished me with the following statement,
which as be has made the subject his special study
| IL ce ;,ainy deserving OF consideration:
" In the last days French slsyery aud unfer the
sewers. ioIIos OF slavery, s. Domingo furnished an
Inanv 10 the mo her country not less thfn l3i,WOOW
| Of francs ,up.ard Of S!6000,00 Amencan) IN the
amount Of provisions wnicn II produced for exporta-
ton, ard its ports contained considerable number oi
sbius. Ar many g. 6O0 vessels have been counted AZ
l = 4 lion md a "A al
Pf-de PaiXe ore Of the most contracted. Bat, since
those terrible catSs.rophes which Introductory TO
the Liberty sDd independence of the Island, the great
plantations have been destroyed by fire. the fields lsd
waste and tine woIkmen d.sOrganzed and Transformed
mo soldiers: il n obV iOus then that the same result
| can no longer be obtained. AfterWard, the intestine
wars waged Tor the purpose OF hnnOhng oi ci main
| tanning the pride OF cbeie, d.spu ns among them
seve. tbe supremacy dragged, from 1907 10 lSH the
car of death and devastatioD over th's beautiful tern
tory reducing every day its popusu1n bOth by losses
on the field of battle and by emigration 70 other conn'
ies. The spectacle yet living one for there where
formerly stretched ont far "a the eye could reach,
vast plantations Of sugar-caDe, witn their white pumes
where stood thOse superb sugar houses whose smoke
asce nded into the air in lofty coneke c0lumns, and
where the measured gong Of thousand male ana ie-
laboreIs uoder the Whip of the overseer, hed the ar
| day and night with hsreh acceots, now extend thick
forets where the eye Of the traveller sees only runs
ard rubbish sbapeless mixture OF walls overthrow,
canals destroyed, utensils broken 20 pieces and aque-
ducts beautiful arches, speaking witnesses every
| where of the Opulence Of colonial tunes.
"DuTing The twen y.hve years of The happy a1mln-
is.rson Of President Boyer free Labor furnished an
nua forty millions pounds OF coffee, winch hsd then
| become tin principal article OF CULTIVATION IN the
county. Caca0 cotton fnstic, ignnmv;e aLd Brazil
| wood were produced alternately IN greater or less
| de- rec L0ggood mad now become one Oi the most
productive articles OF .rafc. But there one branch
of business Of no importance IN colonial tunes, whlch
now absorbs the strength of great numbers-the trade
| in mahOga which has fOund an immense opening IN
II gland and Germany and thus TINS beN business
has become OF wealth 20 those who have de-
voted themselves 10 II; the principal markets OF u are
| Gonayes Port an Prince and Sant0 Domingo. Snce
the separation Of ,he essern part OF the Island nom
Iayi this product has greatly di innshed by reason
of the difficulty OF obtaining the trees, which are mostly
found i'll the forests Of the east at present forming the
Dominican Territory. Sugar, white aud clayed, i no
longer made because the Datch and American
| sugars be obtained IN our towns a. a more
| favorable price aud the larger par OF the
| sTup which comes from the susaF-cane is
| unhsppy made into rum for home consunp ptlon- "a
bu.iIess too widely spread and fatal to the people,
ON brings and more t. brutality snd liieness,
| enfeebhng en- ntelhgeIt youth already under the io-
haeuce " an ex citing climate. - there j. sensible
decrease OF the population chiefly in the cities where
| q frighiul consumption OF these sprtuous liquors
occurs by reason Of the Incidence which extensively
| prevail- and which ~ called killing ne.
"Our comme Pee Low consists N coffee cacso cotton,
beeswax honey gr ger sIsrCl greencfon, ,cLun ulce,
otapces cacaOstraw, gums guGcum, cdssla, isticho,
raw nides tortoise shell, horns, and linen rigs; ana,
anorg the precious woods, mahogany, WHICH DIVIDED
into tie following kinds the waved, the spotted and
tie ordinary ogwood ~ which The best u that OF ~
| Msrk: hslumva, fustic and Brazilwood. o-heT
kincs quite as remarkable, m.-bt be .dvanaSeously
used IL other countries such cedar manehneel yel-
| low sanoai wood, marble wood WhIte-wo'd, cochi-
| wood white and red iTJn-wOD!, everlasting AMI the
| ain on wood. ,
"Tbe working Of our sali.pts woGli also be highly
| advantageous Tor the export tra1e' they are very
| abundant the principal being the Grand Saline and
the Co0on a. Atib0ui,e, AM those Of L. Beate, At
| present unworked. Some others are remark able as