Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1860-05-31
St. Domingo.


The following from the n. Y. Heralds
St. Domingo correspondence, will be OF IN
terest as melting the spirit of the people
and the designs of Europe upon that Is
land:
The twenty-seventh of February, is like
the American Fourth of July, national
Festival day, and is always celebrated with
much enthusiasm. On that day the Do
minicans threw off the yoke of Hayti, and
at one bold and brilliant dash drove the
negro garrison out of the capital.
That was the day chosen by the foreign
Consuls to make the humiliation more
sharp and complete. At the public places
and all the vessels in harbor Of st. Domin-
go were dressed with flags, and the whole
population was keeping holyday, when,
suddenly, at the most commanding point,
the French flag was seen to rise above the
Dominican to the highest point Of honor,
when it received formal salute of twen-
to-one guns. This was done ostentatious-
ly in the face of the murmuring crowd, who
had assembled to celebrate their national
independence, which they were thus ab-
ruptly informed was anything but real.
The officer charged with firing the sa-
lutte tore off his epaulettes and threw up
his commission rather than make it; but
his superior told bin that when "the very
life of the republic was at stake, it was the
duty of all her sons to suffer and sacrifice,
as well as to fight for her salvation And
he stood by silently, but pale with rage,
while the humiliating task was being per
formed.
The people all know the inside mean-
ing of this assumption of supreme author
ity. There is coalition of the French,
Spanish and English diplomatists, to force
this republic, nolens volens, into the swar-
thy embrace of Hayti, and for the follow
ing reasons:
L. England is determined not to per-
nit white emigration to this island-just
rs she offers every obstacle to the increase
of whites in her own West India colonies
in order to stop the course Of American
progress in the tropics.
2. Spain wants to keep out the Yam
KEGS, for they might be troublesome so
near Cuba, while the worthless negro vag-
abonds of Hayti could do no mischief for
the present; and as long as they can have
their cigaritos and cock fights, the Span
iards of to-day care nothing for any fu-
ture deluge of blood and negro insurrec-
ton which the slave trade is preparing for
their children.
8. France wants the mortgage for the
IOO,OOO,00O francs, which she holds on
Hayti, to be extended so as to cover the
whole island.
Louis Napoleon is not the man to make
two bites OF cherry, nor yet to gather his
fruit before it is ripe. He is willing TO ac-
commodate his allies by Africanizing the
whole island, and then he may take it all
for his debt.
He can make it fine paying colony by
the introduction of coolie labor, and the
present Chinese war, or the next English
war in India, will supply million of raw
material at next to nothing ahead, landed
on this soil.
Yet all this "soft sawder" about cheap
labor TO win over the rich, and this parade
of European supremacy to awe the com
mon classes, is not teaching this people do
cility. 1t is, on the contrary, rather curing
them of their habitual reverence for the
power and glory of Europe.
They have learned that the Ministers of
the greatest of the European powers dare
not play these high fantastic tricks in the
streets of the meanest town of the United
States. This is public talk in every shop
and store in st. Domingo. Even the wo-
men tell the European residents how the
English Minister (Crampton) was sent
home without ceremony, when he was
caught interfering with the laws of the
United States.
"Give us plenty of Americans here" say
all the liberal Domincians, "and then these
foreign consuls will find out they are not
masters of everything in this country
To this l say amen, for there never was a
finer country by nature, nor one in which
smart American farmers and mechanics
could do better for themselves.