Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1861-03-07
A Paradise for Negroes.

n WHtIe WHITE meO get tnc kICkh
and negroes the cnndy-where Tie black man
gets the oyster and the white man the she'll
where the Anglo Saxon has no rights which
the African is bound 10 respect-wbere are
black Senators, Judges, Generals and Editors
where the ideal of female loVeliness is not
In the carHaIion tnge on the lily cheek, nor
the n;cely-tUraed arm or ankle, but in the
bisck0ess of the gloss and the re of the NAL
teOtus what darkcy, as he dreams of Para
disc. has not had glimpses of some such Isle Of
the Blest- and the Black! Now, even while
they have been dreaming of it, jnsl such hap.
py lsle-oniy more so-has been rapidly pre-
pairing itself for tho impa radsement of all g God
American negroet. Not on the outskirts of
the world, in far off Liberia, nor amid The
hyperborean rigors Of CaDads--nOt under the
rule OF black savage or a white iyrnnt-but
beneath the tropic warmth which the African
loves so well, and under the benignant consIi-
tutlonal sway of a genuinely Black Republican
President.
Within a few days sail of these Northern
ATTITUDES lies glorious island, whose shores
are washed by the warm waters Of The Gulf
and famed by the breezes of the Spanish Main
where the cotton plant and the coffee tree
flourish perenniallY, aud produce two crops a
year-where the sugar cane, The cocoa tree,
and the tobacco punt, and rice. and corn, and
wheat grow luxurianIly-whO hose valleys pro
duce the luscious tropical pineapple. the bread
fruit, vans and plantain., while the peach. and
the straw berry, and the fruits of the temperate
zone grow on lIs hills-where mahogany, and
sIiinwood, and ebony, and dyewoods, md ra rest
trees of every kind, are found in exhaustless
! abuudance in it's forests, while the aurIfprous
wealth which drove The Spanards mad three
hundred years ego, vet reposes in abundance
| IN it's golden srala'-a land of rich TO age and
brilliant flowers and gay piumed singing birds
surrounded with every delight, and rejoicing
IN its beauty-no wonder that COLuMBrs, IN
his aplntc, declared II 10 be the original Gar
den of Eden.
The name Of thia island is Hayii-every way
/ interesting and sign icani as the scene where
the blacks. in tine absolutely tree exercise OF
their energies, are solving The problem of their
social capabilities.
For HsyIi band Of colnred emigrants, q
day or two ago. left New York-following a
similar colony WHIP sailed couple Of mon hs
since-atiracted by the extraordinary induce.
mems held out TO the American blacks by the
tdr-elghted Administrator of President Gef
fraTd. These Two pioneer vessels, if we do mol
much miscalculate, signal'ze the commence
meRt "f movement which 10 likely TO prove
of very deep import both TO this country and
I1ayii. Ii is useless to deny that in these
Northern States the climatic conditon-the
deep rooted pFejud ces Of color-the poliica
disabilities Of the negro. and the general con
Victon that after all he is here but a disturbing
eiement--all cOnspIre TO render them unfit ioI
a normal development of that race. 10 IIayti
on the other hand, neither laws, nor prejudice
nor historical men cries. press upon him; bu
hospitob!e arena welcomes him 10 The FIRE,
development of HE elhnic individuality. Int,
this island might he removed ell the negroe
IN the United States. and still there would b,
ample room for four times more. To each emf
q grant IS offered free passage, a welcome,
1 home aud a free homesIead-the protection O
a strong and liberal Government social equal
ny, religious freedom and equal civil and pol
: tical rights with tie natives
. IL may also be noteworthy at the presen
n time, when the economics of the world seer
= to centre on the cotton question, that The ca
Paclty of Hayti for The growth Of this plant
a enormous. II is situated 10 the very centre {
. the cotton belt Of the world, and in the cours
Ola year or two, is eligible. with skilled Iabo
n 10 supply one. fourth of the total demand of IN
!, English market. Now, of the last band Of EN-
j., grants from New York, the majority were
those free blacks recently expelled from Sout
). Carolina, and they carried with them 10 the
- new home the sectets of the cotton culIure.-
. Nothing more is required but further ibsta
% ments of the race. slement which the North ca
n so we'll spare. ts make Hayii dangerous riv
! OF The Cotton Confederacy in the markets
Manehester.-NeW York Times.