Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1860-11-01
Hayti for EmiGrant Negroes.

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Hayti for Emi.rant Negroes.
A colored gentleman, named J. Dennis
Harris, has written book of travel in the
Carribees, in which he treats of the social
and material condition of Hayti, and urges
the emigration of negroes to that island: /:
Mr. Harris gives the preference as a place
of settlement for colored emigrants from
the Uuited States to the country under the
jurisdiction of the Dominican repuplic.-
The large and beautiful island of Hayti is
capable of supporting population of twen-
ty millions; the number of its inhabitants
is scarcely one million. The largest, finest
and most thickly peopled part of the island
is in the possession of that part of the col
ored race who speak the Spanish language,
and who live under different government
from those with whom the commercial
ports of the United States have the most
frequent intercourse. In this part of the
island the population does not much ex-
ceed quarter of million. The climate,
it is affirmed, is as healthy as that of Vir-
giuia, the soil is prodigiously fertile, the
heat is not intense, and the fruits as fine
as any produced within the tropics. On
the beauty of the country and the excel
lence of its productions, Mr.. Harris dilates
with an almost poetic rapture.
At present the immense resources of this
part of the island are almost useless for
want of the necessary skill and other
means to shape them for the purposes of
life. There are magnificent forests and no
saw mills; the boards and beams for build
ing are consequently imported from the
United States. There is no finer climate
or soil for coffee, but there are no planta-
tions; yet coffee grows wild on the waste
lands, and its grains are consequently of an
inferior quality. Bees build in clefls of
the rocks and in every hollow tree in such
abundance that the women collect the hon
eycombs, wash out the honey in the brook
and send the wax to market. There is no
planting of the cane; it springs up sponta-
neously, the inhabitants cut and grind it in
wooden mills, and make a sugar of poor
quality in small quantities. Oranges, lem
ons, lines and cocoanuts of the finest quail
ity abound, bnt there is nobody to collect
them and pack them for the markets. In
short, here is country of great beauty and
rare fertility, abounding not only with the
means of comfortable sustenance, but with
variety of resources which might be con-
al int af pfrx-
which at this moment offers as great in
ducements 10 coonists as it did when first
discovered by Columbus. The govern
ment of the country invites and encourages
the incolner, provided he be of the agri-
cultural class, or one who follows trade,
supplies him with sustenance and tools,
and protects him in bis contracts with the
people of the island.
1t will soon become grave question i'll
those states which shall adopt the policy
of emancipating their slaves, what shall be
done with them. The island of Hayti
will offer 10 those who are willing to emf.
CRATE, as vast numbers of them doubtless
will be, country within easy reach from
any of cur ports in which their social equal
ity will be recognized, in which they will
not be obliged 10 pass through that dan
gerous process of seasoning to which they
must be subjected on the African coast, and
to which nature seems to invite them, by
offering the most liberal rewards, even to
moderate industry. To the island of Hay
ii five times the number of persons now
held in slavery within the United States
nigh pass, without making it over popu-
lous.
Mr.. Harris is of opinion that it is the
destiny of the mulatto race to found, iu
the island Of the Gulf and the Provinces
of Central America, an Anglo-Arican en-
pire of high degree of civilization. He
denies the truth of what some assert, that
the mulatto race is not healthy and prolific,
at least within the tropics, and cites the
testimony of Moreau de st. Merry to prove
that of al the inhabitants of St. Domin-
60. the mulatto is the longest lived. From
his white ancestors he inherits intelligence,
enterprise and taste for the arts of civiliza-
tion; from his black progen;tors strength,
soberness, and constitution suited to hot
climates. Mr.. Harris expatiates on the
prospect opened to the growth and pros
poets of this mixed race in the tropical re-
gions of our continent; where the pure
white race becomes feeble and degenerate.
10 thos6 who take an interest in the f.
nal destiny of that family of the human
species that has been transplanted from
Africa to the New World, we can COM
mend this work as having an important
bearing on that great question.