The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1860-02-15

,st.ttes and fnuIattoes Of 81 Domingo, and
soc., extending TO the blacks, eaded in the
onen reyoh Of all slaves. We need not refer
~ fhe bloody massacres between 179l and
Se94 during which period the Independence
~ uavti was proclaimed. The white race Of
over thirty thousand persons were extermlna-
ssad With a large number OF mulattOes. Not
ioss than one hundred and fifty thousand peo-
ple, it is estimated, persisted in this bloody
'OT " Is04 the island was entirely in possef-
s;o,, of the negroes, its Independence acknOwl-
sJoed and Black Emperor placed on its
throne Now it was reasonably expected
that nrosperty and happiness would be re-
tered and increased but the futility OF these
o~nectations is best illustrated by examining
no table of the exports from 1889 to lS4l, in
.hran leading articles; the decline in sugar Is
'aarv remarkable and may be owing 70 the
60 flat its cultivation. requires more labor
than coffee. One writer, sMr. Schoelcher
states that sugar is now actually imported
INTO II:sytL We select the period OF successive
- ~ 49, So
y0I Clsysd susar, Mu sovadOs Cotton. Cssos:
ian l5 s,s "a, ss 'Sg 7OO4,a7s 7ssss,si0
$50 2,7s7 2,5f4,5o2 34ess9 $s.iss,52s
i 800 Meme 2;S2e sl5,6sg 5e0s4,3o0
$40. None ~ eais!s s sst3S2I7
1871. None 1868 l,ssi,4s S4,li4 aI
From 1921 TO 1871 no ciayed sugars were
reno.ted5 No cotton in '35, '36 and '37.-
Thus St. Domingo, the first Island which pro
duced suoar in the Western world, and dur
inc HTee centuries increased its exports, until
Il reached $50 millions Of pounds when it
fell into the hands Of negro masters almost
entirely ncglects itseultuFe, $4,000 negroes,
loving sugar, rs is well known they do, at the
end Of SO wears are obliged to import It for
| their own consumption; Then the Produe-
ton Of Coffee has fallen off more than half re-
auirine as it does but little and light labor
| Hayti coffee used to be considered superior TO
any West India, but is now badly prepared,
and so with Haytian cotton, cocoa, and log
wood.--( Mac GFegor's Pfogress.)
Many now can remember when Hayt ex-
ported fortg times as much cotton as the U.
States. bat in less than half century, say
1871. our country exported more than Jfye
hundred times as much ~ Haytil In 1871,
the United States, McCulloch says, exported
only 1896 bales Of cotton. NJ, al
The rapid increase in the United States, it
will be said, is the result and fruit Of slavery.
Certainly, but where are the fruits Of this
nominal freedom Of the Haytian negroes
Since its Independence, in 1904, that island
has been tle scene-of raisrate, inseclrita. ire
ksiOR, ignor0noe, iRtIolence, neglect of aqFfeul-
ttre and boodsded.s .lf travellers are 10 be be-
lieyed, the Hayti are making but little, il
any progress, in progressive ChT1stiGa eiUiL-
zation.* We doubt not, from all this evidence,
strange as the remark may seem to some and
unfortunate as American slavery is, that the
negro slaves OF the United States, in all the
great blessings Of a Christian civilization,
have far the advantage over the blacks Of
Hayti In legal bondage, as they find them
selves they know more, and possess more cor
rect knowledge Of Christian freedom, and are
blessed with more Of its eleyating effect, than
those st. Domingo negroes. For national
elevation, religion, INDUSTRY and COMMERCE
must gohand in hand, and the decline Of these
vitaI principles in Hayti is proof positive Of
this assertion, and accounts for the neglect Of
education, trade and morals as well as the
spread Of immortality and vice among that
people. q. I. ID.
January IL, 1869.
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