Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-12-01
HAYTT.

We have elsewhere given an abstract OF a report
On the condition Of the Republic OF uayt, Official
ly made to the governmental that country.
uayti, because Of the complexion Of its citizens,
is, to a n majority Of the people Of this country, al
most as little known as the unexplored regions Of
Africa. Our Anglo-saxon pride could not endure
the thought that the descendants of Africa should
build up in close proximity to us a government Of
their own, and that too, upon the ruins of a white
empire. And because the government is a
government of black men, we have refused
20 recognize its independence, although it has
been far more stable, and the people have manifes-
ted a better capacity for self government than
have those Of some Of tho governments Of South
America whose nationality we FASTENED to ac-
knowledge. Even love for the Almighty dollar
has not been potent enough to overcome our preju-
dice against color; and while France and England,
having recognized the independence Of Hayti,
enjoys commercial advantages there, we are con-
~tent-rather than have a negro government send
a minister to represent it at Washington
to labor under commercial disadvantages with
that people. Yet Notwithstanding these disadvan-
tages, our trade with them is very considerable;
and it might be vastly increased, and be conduc-
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sensical pride of complexion could be induced to
yield to justice, or even to study pecuniary inter
est.
The little we have learned Of Hayti has not
been of a chara.er to depreciate her in the scale
Of peoples. The advances she has made, have
been achieved under adverse circumstances; and
although other nations, with fewer difficulties to.
contend with, may have done better, the history Of
Hayti presents an example which the descendants
of Africa have no need to be ashamed of, Her
people have arisen from the condition of bTutalizeG
slaves to that Of frecmen, and with tho proud con-
seriousness that With their own hands they wrought
out their own deliverance. The records of her
struggle for freedom have embalmed some Of the
noblest characters that have filled a place IN mod
ern history, and her people can point to the name
of TouIssANT L'OvERTURE, and proudly challenge
other nations to produce a nobler.
A few letters from visitors to the Island con-
tanning their impressions of some of the superb
c~ialities of local society, have been the chief med
FUN through which the people of the United
States have obtained their little knowledge of the
Haytiens. We are glad to learn that a work is
about being issued from the Boston press, which
is, we presume, altogether reliable, and which
enters very fully into minutia in which We ought
all to be interested. 1t vas written with a view
to give q full statement Of the condition of the
Republic, and to furnish all necessary information
to those who wish to emigrate thither, and was
prepared by James Redpath, at the request of the
government of Hayti, and the manuscript submit
ted for revision and correction to President Gef-
rard aud his cabinet.
The visit of Mr.. Redpath to the Island, and the
facilities furnished him for obtaining statistical
and other governmental documents, has enabled
him to present a volume which will contain much
reliable information in relation to our compare
lively unknown neighbOra, the people Of the Re-
public of Hayti.