Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1859-02-19


PAH communicates ms, be accompanied By a re-
sp0HsiJie Rd,qe 10 notice.
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DOWNFALL or TUE IA TTIEN EMPIRE
The news received from IIayti announces the
downfall of the IIayten Empire, which had
been in existence for about ten years. The
Republican army having marched into Port au
Prince on the Nth ult. The Emperor imme-
diatcly abdicated and took refuge on board an
English vessel Of war. Gen. Jeflerd, who mi
tiatcd the revolution was Immediately proclaim
ed President. According to the accounts the
people of the capital were greatly rejoiced at
the change Of government 1t is said that the
ex-Emperor has nice little sum of money in
vested in France, which he laid ur against a
rainy day.
Souiouquc was chosen prc,idcnt of the Re
public of lIayti in 1917. In the latter part of
1919, he usurpcd the imperial power, and de-
clarcd himself Emperor under the name of
Faustin /. He created court Of duSky mobiles,
to whom he gave high-sounding titles and
Names In all these movements he was few
months in advance and the forerunner of Louis
Napoleon lie was born a slave, and belonged
to a French planter. Joining the army at the
time of the negro Instructions, near the end
Of the last century, he gradually rose, until the
tide of fortune made him President in ISL
The moment he found himself welding the SUI
prcme power he commenced to ape the manners
and customs Of the dynastic monarches Of Eu-
rope. His proclamaiions orders of nobility,
decorations, &c, were all of that bombastic
character which serves as the best caricature Of
the usual insignia of royalty.
The history of the island of st. Domingo is
more chcquercd than has fallen to the lot of
any other portion of America islands or con-
tinents Discovered by Columbus on his first
voyage, and named by him Hispanioa, its fer
tiity and beauty early attracted the attention of
the Spanish emf grants to the New World The
determination Of the aborigines was a tedious
labor, which the Spaniarls undertook, but did
not conplce till nearly two centuries had elaps-
cd. The introduction of African slaves prepar-
ed the island for Its present condition. The
French fugtivcs from ST. Kits in the year 1880,
gave the national coloring to the west end of
thcisland the eastern end, now the Republic
Of Dominica, remained Spanish.
1t was from this island that the Buccaneers
had their origin, and here too the "Filibusters'
first found "local habitation and Il Nance
Throughout a considerable part of the 18th
century, the French and Spanish mad series
of struggles which ended in SPANS formerly
giving up the west end of the island. In 1901
came the revolt of the blacks, and in 1893 the
massacre Of the whites. Then Toussaint l'Ou-
venture appeared, the most chivalrous and ro-
mantle Of negro heroes. There is scarcely a
moro touching episode in history than the rise
and fall of this brave and and high-minded
black. The fall of tie g.ent Nnrnloon soor,e
almost like special retribution, when We re-
member how roussaint rOnverture, trusting to
French generosity, was thrown into French
prison TO suffer and to die
After Toussaint came Dcssalnes and a now
instruction. The second Of the negro heroes
made himself Emperor, under the title of James
I, in 1884, and two years afterwards fell by the
hand of an assassin. Then came the division
Of the island; a kingdom in the North and
republic in the South The civil war of 1921
and the rise of Boyer made another epoch
Boyer was one of the ablest Of the Haytirn
statesmen. His republican rule was a dictato-
rial one, but it gave more peace and prosperity
20 the island than it had ever known.
The revolution Of 1912, winch overthrew
Boyer, began the period Of disorder and mis-
rule in which Soulouque became a prominent
actor Il new era is begun now. Whether
separate republic will be maintained or wheth-
er there will be union with the republic of the
Spanish end of the island is a question which
will probably come up for settlement If We
commence annexing the West India Islands to
the United STATES, st. Domingo will be as nee
essary TO MS after we have acquired Cuba as the
latter island is now. But this is a matter for
the future rather than the present