The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-04-29
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Monday Morniag'. ~ April D.
A Model Negro Republic.

u,vti. next to Cuba the finest and
,,st productive of the West India
Islands. is the famous model negro re-
npblic ofth world. Its present gener-
a,i,u we're born and raised in the free
5or established upon n bloody massa-
ere Of rhc white race. They have en-
loved that power of self.gorernment
which the Radicals insist our negroes OF
the South shall exercise. They have
had all the advantages of miseegena-
lion. Ard yet the history of their ca
rerr has been one marked by pages Of
violence. hloodshed, squalid poverty.
and the Other characteristics of semi
civilization. As people the Haytians
bav. dcgrmrrated, and the industry and
.yports of the Island have hec come COM
psratiyely insignificant. rta
After the Republican party came into
p,wcr. Nh SUMNER, as chairman of the
Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs,
took Hayti under his wing. and the
government uf that republic" has
,iscp had the benefit of sort of United
States protectorate. Diplomatic rela-
ricn, with 1t were established, and we
now hayea Minister Resident and Con-
,nl General residing at Port au Prince
A, salary of s., $50 year, while Hayti
sr-r> AT Washington Minister Resi-
dent and Secretary of Legation. Our
Minister TO Hayti is Mr.. H. F.. PECK,
formerly Professor at Oberlin College
and one of the rankest productions OF
that h"t-hed of negro equality. The
Cleveland Lc0dr (RadicaD prints the
following letter from Mr. PECK to his
nhrIlln friends. Ii is the freshest COM
mrnrary upon the negro's capacity for
.!i.sovernmrnt and claims for politi-
cal power AZ hand:
PoRT At PRINCE, HAYTi, March 81.
AZ ny last writing to friends in Ober-
in ,rrb. 2i) We had just had an out
break in this city. The attempt at rev.
aiutlGH had caused fearful excitement
and the loss OF much property and some
lives, hut had at last been put down by
rhr government. Since then we have
passed through most exciting and try
ing scenes. The attempt at revolution
was put down only in appearance, not
ia fact. Ii soon came to be clear to the
President that if he persisted in hold
me- his office he and his family would
he a>sassiEated and anarchy would get
The upper hand. So he abdicated ana
went on French man-of-war to Jamai-
ca. 4 provisional government took the
power. but il was a government so full
OF contrarieties and opposite views that
3. Lardly amounted to government,
Tor Il week we hung over the brink OF
horrors of all kinds, but events have at
length composed themselves. We have
now 4 temporary government which
although il is thoroughly revolution
arv in its ideas. will probably keeT
order.
The month which has passed has been
one of the most trying ones of my life
have a thousand times wished that
nv dear ones were out of the country
Rnt God has brought MS through in
safety. My wife has been perfectly
cool aud courageous throughout the
whole. 4 woman could not have be-
l.aycd better, and few men would have
douc ~ we'll. The change in political
affairs may materially change my plans
about guing hcme, and | do not know
when either MIS-. Peck or | will see
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