New-York daily tribune., 1859-08-09


while this day. there had been 73 scholars IN At
tendance. Mr. Bishop stated that the attendance
AZ All the schools was very irregular. AT the Nes-
levap school they charge s. % (AmercsD) per
month for tuition. think / forgot 10 say that
there are four public schools, supported by tie
Government, at Cape Haytien
Although Soulouque did nothing 70 encourage
education, and did much 10 retard the spread Of
intelligence yet it is admitted that even during hls
dark reign, the people made considerable progress
in knowledge. 1t became fashionable, said native
merchant 81 Gonaives, for the wealther citizens 70
send their children 10 Europe for an education.
He himself had sent six Of bis own family. Their
return 10 Hayti caused an emulation among those
who could not afford TO 20 abroad, and shus
induced the natives to avail themselves OF sl the
opportunities their own country afforded them.
Lately, great numbers had gone from Cape Hay.
ten, Port au. Prince and Aux Cages, TO France and
England for education. Three of them, last year,
took the highest prizes Of the Partisan Unlversl-
ties. The influence of ChristOphes schools, winch
we're admirable he said, could still be traced IN the
char acter of the peoples they were more intelligent
u the North than at the South. Yet, except at
Port au Prince, he added, education in Haysi was
good for nothing. What the country wanted was
foreign teachers-such as ChristOphe introduced.
KING CHRIsTOPHE.
To thi, royal Christophe paragraph is due. He
black barbarian, whose reign was period OF des-
potic rule, far worse than celOnial Slavery. Even
talent is denied him by some writer's These au-
tbors are either Frenchmen or mulattOes 1t prob
ably must be admitted that he was unnecessarily
cruel at times, and exceedingly arbitrary always;
but the day is coming, think, when, the yellow
skinned and Pro-Slavery rubbish that has been
thrown on bis memory cleared away, ne will justly
take place in the pantheon of history side by side
with Russa's Peter the Great or EDglands Oliver
Cromwell. Az q ruler, he was incomparably the
greatest Of Haytians. The much-belauded Peton
will occupy in the future a very petty place as
compared with him.
Thirty eight years have passed since he died, and
vet be is stu spoken off with enthusiasm by his
people; even they who, when he lived, suffered from
bis tyranny, admit that he was great genius and
statesman and patriot. Those who served under
him revere his memory. Compare him with
Soulouquer said the English Consul at the cafe;
" 1t is only few days since he left already there
/" s as little personal regard for him expressed, as
" if he had been bale of cotton shipped to jam
" aica Yet anecdotes of Chistophe are enthusl-
astically told. That shows, Sir, there was power
- there"
Dtssalines expelled OF killed the last colonsts of
the French but Christephe conceived the grander
design of expelliDg their language and religion.
Had be lived for twenty years longer, he would un-
doubtedly have achieved this gigantic work. He
established Lancasterian schools everywhere IN his
kingdom; be made it necessary to learn the English
language; he would not permit Frenchman to
reside in bis realms, and he reawakened IN the
hearts Of his people fercer hatred of that nation
by his daring and heroic defiance of her power,
when an effort was made, backed by ship of war,
70 induce him to pay indemnity for the losses OF
the colOnsts. He spurned the proposition with de-
fance and disdain-this heroic and DETAINED black
ruler; but years aterward it was considered and
L., I'd hxrf fhl
DEM. god of the mulattoes, the timid and cOmpro-
missing Boyer The black rulers of Hayti have all
been fanatics-there was never a halfway manner
in their system the mulattOes, on the contrary,
have been prudent and pOlitic-their measures like
their color, a compromise.
Christophe, though without personal religion,
recognized the importance of purer faith than the
French moral code, as means of eevatlDg the
character of his cOuntrymeD. He regarded 1t as
m possible to introduce the Protestant faith with
out first introducing the English language; and
hence he set about this extraordinary and hercuean
labor with all the earnestness Of his strong and in-
domitable nature. Was there ever in all history
grander design than this of his conceived, to
change the character, language and religion OF
people, IT, as Gilles in his History of Greece re-
marks, 1T is the duty of history not only to pre-
serve the record of great actions but great de-
signs, this programme OF the negro monarch OF
VI
Western Chronicles.
Christophe nearly cured his people of many of
the habits that they brought from Afrcs or derived
from Slavery. People slept in the city with their
windows and doors open, and without dog about
the house to frighten thieves. The fear of Chris
tophe was sufficient guard. Whenever a man
was detected in theft, he was strung up at the
nearest tree. "lt was very different under Seu-
lOuQue," said a gentleman, with some humor;
"if Christophe knew thief, he would kill him;
when SOuouque had found a man who would
mot steal he would kill him." Certainly It 10 not
as under Christophe at Cape Haytsn now; for,
although HOUSEKEEPING, highway rObberies, and
grand larcenies, are very rare ndeed-much rarer
than in any white cOuntry--petty thefts are un-
commonly frequent.
CbIstophe personally attended to the cutiva.
ton of the soil. He insisted that every farm and
plantation should be made to bear good crop
annually. and that there should be DO manner of
negligence in its cultivation. He would not permit
the farmers Ia LET the coffee plant grow more than
three feet high. Now, il is often from ten 10
twenty feet in hight. Neither would he permit
them 10 bring il into market dirty. He hanged
them if they attempted u do it. The consequence
of this stern infexbihty of purpose has been highly
beneficial TO the country and the habits of the
inhabitants; for in his kingdom to-day, according
to all Hsytsn testimony, the people are better
educated, the lands are better cultivated, and the
coffee sells at cent higher per pound, than IN the
section of the place which was then under the rule
or no rule of Petion, the mulatto. lie would not
permit the the expectation of logwood. | asked
Why
Don't you know what logwood meansP asked
an English missionary" Ii means laziness. The
people are too lazy to cultivate cotton or coffee,
and 60 into the wood and cut down logwood. And
the export of ogwood increases annually"
OF the hard stories told by the mulsttoes against
Christophe three of the worst examples will sui
fee. Mr. Desrayines, one Of the officers of Gef-