Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1859-01-28
The Revolution in Hayti.

The news from Hayti, says the New York Times,
is dark for the imperial prospects Of SoULoUoUE
as the Emperor himself 1t sPpesrs that the whole
of the northern portion of the island has pronounced
for GEFFRARD, the Insurgent General, who has re-
established the Republic on The old zone and indi
visible model common TO the republics Of that class.
revolution, however it may end, has evidently
been begun in Hayti, and in a manner that is al
most incredibly ludicrous. NAPOLEON the Great,
escaping from Elbs, landing at Frejus, and gather
ing adherents as he marched into the interior, is
event which would have been called silly if it had
failed of its immediate object, but could never have
been deemed ridiculous. But the colored General
of a black ragamuffn army, landing with three
sdherents in the principal part of ''the Empire"
and proclaiming Republic, is drollery which
WILL no doubt, be shortly reproduced st the "halls
of Ethiopian minstrelsey" in Broadway.
The manner in which the COUP was effected too,
is about as absurd as anything ever attempted by
the clear-skinned Republicans of Mexico or South
America The four men, says the report, were
''srmed to the teeth" under which circumstances
they must, undoubtedly, have been frghtfully for
midable; notwithstanding which, it that they
rode to the Governors residence, without noise or
tumult,-a statement that we can readily believe,
seeing the difficulty of getting up any thing very
rious in the way Of tumult with only four men.
These terrific darkies, however, their arrival at
the Governors, where denied admttance by the one
sentinel; upon which, being earned to the teeth"
they-"galOped to the Jail, where they frightened
the sentinel Zone sentinel appears to be the mills
tary allowance in Hayi,) and liberated the prison
ers" With this accession of forty persons to the
original force of four, the Republican Party was
now strong enough to cope with the one sentinel,
who had previously repulsed the gallant four at the
Governors residence, and they at once resorted
thither and dispossessed the Governor, who is rep
resented as "a gentleman of quite advanced Hfe."
General Geffrard being in actual possession, he
was Joined By the citizens 'and what military there
was in the tOwns;"-ccmpOsed, should judge
from the antecedent account, of the two sentinels
aforesaid.
The necessary facilities having thus been &C.
qUired, the first of General Gefrard was 10 pros
claim the Republic that Of the citizens was to fire
IS salvo of small artillery"-the adjective quafca-
ton of the artillery in question being no doubt
highly appropriate. The General then took pos
session of the fortified town of St. Mares, which
his heterogeneous army entered without oppostions
and which the party who furnishes all this informa.
ton shortly afterwards saw burning at various
pOints-fred by Geffrard himself, or by the dispos-
sessed sentinel, who doubtless formed the garrison
of that place also. HOwcver this may be, the
movement is stated to have been gaining ground
everywhere in the north-or, in the language of
the report, "the spirit of instruction equally
catchiug"-of what is not stated, but hint is giv>
en- that Soulouque might possibly bring an army at
once into the field, in which event it was surmised
that the parties at the north would "catch" some
thing that would not be agreeable. Later accounts,
however, mention thai Aux Cages and Jacmel had
pronounced in favor Of Gefrard, and against the
Emperor-circu instances which rather favor the be-
lief that the majority of the unpleasant catching
will have to be done by SOulouque himself