The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-12-27
Negro Supremacy An HRyti-SaInave a
Specimen Brick.


Specimen Brick.
From he NJ =. Herald
We published yesterday a short letter from
correspondent at Port-au- Prince, the capital
of the negro Republic of Hayti, which fur
nished us more graphic picture of the de-
lightful state of things in that happy land of
negro supremacy than we have had for very
long time from any other historian. Salnave,
President, an unadulterated negro of the
Congo breed, hideous savage in a photo
graph, and horrible barbarian in his actions,
is engaged in a ferocious struggle against a
horde of conspirators who are resolved to pull
him down. The man whom he by a revolu-
tionary movement displaced-Geffrard, a mu-
latto-was an intelligent, educated, amiable,
and polished man-far too much for the un-
washed Africans constituting the bulk of the
African people. Salnave, more ferocious than
Soulouque, seems determined at least that if
he is to fall it shall not be from the amiabie
weaknesses and indulgences of Geffrard Sal
nave, in fact, is model imitator of the
model African King of Dahomey. . .
1t appears that the Cacos (whatever they
may be) have gradually gained strength on
the frontiers of st. Domingo, and have re-
taken Fort Basson, driving Salnave's troops
before them amid great rejoicings; that,
barked on board a steamer, with large body
of Haytien savages from the interior known as
the Piquets, who were used by Soulouque in
his reign for the most murderous purposes;
that they were not allowed to land at the capt.
tai on account of their nakedness that all the
weapons they carried were cutlasses, and all
the food they required was sugar-cane. This
brings these Haytien negro savages about as
near the status of the gorilla as anything OF
the genus homo discovered by Du Chaillu in
Equatorial Africa. We see in the employment
of these creatures by this model negro Sal
nave something of those peculiar ameliora-
tiOns OF negro society resulting from negro
supremacy.
In the absence of Salnave from his capital
the Government had been left in charge Of
General Ulysse-probably so named after the
world-renowned Ulysses S. Grant, but black
horse of totally different color. This negro
Ulysse, it appears, is the butcher who did Sou.
louque's bloody work whenever his services
were wanted. He must be fearful barbarian
in his way, when the opponents of his policy
in the Legislature, to escape his clutches, hao
sought the protection of the British Consulate
He seems, likewise to be full believer of the
| doctrine of negro superiority, from an ordel
which he had issued requiring every white
woman to rise and salute his ebony highnesi
| while passing by their verandas. The peace
ably inclined inhabitants of Port-au-Princt
were in fear at any moment of having thos'
brutal naked savages from the interior le
| loose upon them like dogs, should SalnavC
take offense or become disappointed.
And this is negro supremacy as now illus
! trated in Hayti where the generous soil pro
duces enough for the negro's subsistence with
out labor, and where the never failing tropica
climate relieves him of all the expenses re
quired on the mainland for clothing. Con
sidering the naturally indolent nature of tn
negro, Hayti ought to be a sort of AFRICAN
paradise; but the whole history of that Afr
can settlement since the first rising of it
blacks for the abolition of slavery is only
record of the inevitably downward tendencie
of the negro back again to African barbarisn
if left to himself. What, then, is his manifef
destiny in our Southern States under the me-
dispensation, if established, of negro suprt
macy, it is not difficult to guess. His naturi
Incidence will carry him to the point Of fstarV;
tion, the pangs of starvation will drive him {
Tapins and bloodshed, and then will follow hi
bloody determination. This is the moral col
veyed to us from the ripening fruits of negr
supremacy in HaYti.