Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-12-30
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We published yesterdays a short letter
from correspondent at Port au Prince,
the capital Of the Negro Republic of
Hayti, which furnished rs more graphic
picture of the delightful state of things
in that happy land Of negro supremacy
than we have had for a very, long time
from any other historian. eai Salnave,
President an ,unadulterated negro of
the Congo breed, dhideousl savage in
a photograph, and horrible barbarian
in his actions, is engaged in ferocious
struggle against a horde, of ;, conspir-
ators who are resolved to pull him
down. The man whom he by revo-
lutionary5 movements displaced-Gef
,frard, mulatto-was' an intelligent, ed
fucated, amiable and polished NAM far
too much for the unwashed Africans Cons
fstituting the bulk of the HaytienI peo?
Pile. Salnave, more ferocious than Soul
ouqne, seems determined at least that if
he is to fan it shall not be from the ans
liable weaknesses and indulgences of
Geffrard. HSalnave, in fact, is worthy
imitator of the model African King of
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'aItappears that the Cacos (whatever
they may be) had gradually gained
strength on the frontiers of St. Domingo,
andahaye retaken Fort Biasson, driving
Salnave's troops before them amid great
rejoicings; that, alarmed by these re-
verses, Salnave had embarked on board
steamer. with a large body of Haytien
savages from the interior known as the
|PPiquets, who were usedsby Soulouque in
his reign fer the most murderous pur.
poses that they were not allowed to
land at the capital 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
lanything of the genus homo discovered by
Du Chaillu in Equatorial Africa. We
see, too, in the employment of these
creatures by this model negro Salnave
something Of those pet uliar ameliora-
tions of negro society resulting from
negro supremacy i...es5
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 Soul.
ouque's bloody work whenever his SER
vices were wanted, He must be fear
full barbarian in his way, when the OPP
ponents of his policy in the Legislature,
to escape his clutches, had sought the
protection of the British. Consulate He
seems, likewise, to be full believer of the
doctrine nof negro superiority, from an
order which he had issued requiring
every white woman to rise and salute his
ebony highness while passing by their
verandas. The peaceably inclined in
habitants of Port au Prince were in fear
at any moment of having those strntal
naked ssayages5 from the interior let loose
upon them like dogs, should Salnave take
offence or beceme disappointed.isodW
un And this is negro supremacy as now
illustrated in Hayti, wherep the generous
soil produces enough for the negro's sub
sistence without labor and where the
never failing tropical climate relieves
him of all the expenses required on the
mainland for clothing Considering, the
naturally indolent nature of the negro,
Hayti ought to besar sort Of. African
paradise; but the whole history of
that African settlement since the first
rising of 9 its = blacks, for the abolition
Of. slaveryTais only a record of the
Inevitably downward Tendencies of
the negro back again to African bar
1barism, if left to himself. What, then,
Is his manifest destiny in our Southern
States under the new dispensation, if es-
tablished, Of negro supremacy, it is not
difficult to guess. His natural Incidence
will carry him to the point of starvation,
the pangs of starvation will drive him
to rapine and bloodshed, and then will
follow his bloody extermination. This
is the moral conveyed to us from the
ripening fruits of negro supremacy in
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