Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-09-08
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Correspondence of the Worcester Spy.
PoRr AU PRINCE, Aug. Is, 1859

Correspondence of the Worcester Spy.
PoRT AU PRINCE, Aug. IL, 1889.
NEWS.
Business dull weather hot; President alb
sent from the city that's all.
The President made a speech last Sunday to
the National Guard. He spoke of numerous
conspirators that were intriguing against
him; said he knew all their names-some of
them members of his own staff; but was neith-
er afraid of them nor intended to take coercive
measures against them-would only wait till
they got ready to act and, if they raised an
army, would march against it with twenty
men and disperse it; very firmly refused to
accept the Dictatorship of the Republic, which
some men had argued in favor of establishing
admitted that he was ambitious, as some of
his enemies charged, but said that his ambi-
ton was not like theirs-tor Office, but glory
and announced that he was about to make a
trip to the North.
had an interview with him a week ago,
and presented him with magnificent copy of
the Bible from the Massachusetts Bible Society.
He was happy to receive il, he said, and did
not doubt as the true spirit it inculcated was
rightly understood, that the people of the
United States would see what he believed, that
it was wrong to hold men as slaves. admit
ted it, of course, as have always done; but
thought what sumner such an answer would
have been, if, instead of being an abolitionist,
without concealment and without compromise,
l had been South-side Adams, or any other
distinguished national divine of the consti.
tutional school.
presented him, also, with letter from the
President of the Wilberforce University, of
Xenia Ohio, offering to send educated youths
as teachers to Hayti, or to educate all Hay ien
youths who might be selected by the govern
ment and sent to the United States.
If the United States, he said, had acknowl-
edged the independence of Hayti, and were it
not for the prejudice of color that existed
there, he would prefer to send the scholars
of promise to America for education but I'M
der the present circumstances, it was necessary
to send them to France. He had already sent
one hundred and seventy-six pupils to be
thoroughly educated in France at the public
expense, and this number would be increased
from year to year. The most promising
scholars are thus honored by the Republic.
They will be kept in France till they are fit to
be thorough teachers, able mechanics or scien-
ti6c military officers
The vessel sails in an hour; and it is i'm
possible, III that Tune, TO state truly and clearly
the political condition of affairs here.
Everything seems calm; hardly a speck on
the political horizon but hurricanes come on
suddenly in the West India Islands.
have met several of the recently arrived
emigrants from Louisiana. Three hundred
and forty-one, in all, have come out. They
are delighted with the country, but are likely
to rouse up a spirit of the deadliest hostility
against the people and government of the
United States. Such stories as they tell of
their treatment in America is enough to exas-
perate far less fiery people than the Hay
items. 1 heard one of those emigrants de-
clare, not more than an hour ago-"The Amer
lean is skill ii, industrious, economical, full of
ingenuity, but he is so cruel to the eolored
man, that wish to God l may yet have the
chance to fight against him. Oh, hate and
despise the very ground he walks uponP'
JAMES REDPATH.