The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-12-26

Nesrs Supremacy in Hayti-ssisavs
speoinca Brick.
We published yesterday short letter nom
. correspondent at Port gu Prince, The capital
OF The negro republic Of Hayu, which furnished
| N . more graphic picture Of the delightful
state OF things in thai happy land Of negro
supremacy than we have had for very long
time from any other historian. 6alnave, Prssi-
dent an unadulterated negro Of the Congo
breed, . hidsous savage In photograph, and
. horrible barbarian in biz actions, 4 engaged
In fsrocious struggle against . horde Of con-
spirators who are resolved 70 pull him down.
The man whom he BY . revolutionary move
ment displaced Gerhard, mulatto--was an
intelligent educated, amlabls and polished
man, far too much for the unwashed Africans
constituting the bulk Of the Haytien people.
Salnave, more ferocious than Soulouque,
seems determined at least that IL he Ia to fall 1t
shall not be from the amiable weaknesses
and indulgences OF Gefrard. SAnave, in fact,
Is worthy imitator OF the model African King
Of Dahomey.
II appears that the Cacos (whatever they
may be) have gradually gained strength on
the frontiers of st. Domingo, and have retaken
Fort Biasson, driving Salnave's troops before
them amid great rejoicings that, alarmed by
these reverses, Salnave had embarked on
board steamer, with large body Of Hayden
savages from the interior known az tho
Piquets, who were used by Soulouque in his
reign for the most murdsrous purposes; that
they were not allowed to land at the capital
on account Of their nakedness; that ell the
weapons they carried were cutlssses, and all
the food they required was sugar cane. This
brings these Hayden negro savages about as
near the status Of the gorilla as anything Of
the genus homo discovered by Dn Chailiu In
Equatorial Africa. We see, too, in the employ
ment of these creatures by this model negro
Salnave something Of those peculiar amsliora-
tons Of negro society resulting from negro
supremacy.
In the absence Of Salnaye from his capital
the government had been left in charge Of
General lysse-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
in his way, when the opponents 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 or the
doctrine OF negro superiority, from an order
which be had issued requiring every white
woman to rise and salute his ebony highness
while passing by their verandas.. The peace
ably inclined inhabitants Of Port an Prince
were in fear at any moment Of having those
brutal naked savages from tho interior let |
loose upon them like dogs, should Salnave |
AXE offence or become disappointed.
And this Is negro supremacy - now illus
rated In HayH, where the generous soil pro-
iuces enough for the Negroes subsistence with
,ut labor, and where the never failing tropical
Innate relieves him OF all the expenses re-
Iuired on the mainland for clothing. Con-
idering the naturally indolent nature Of the
legro, Hayti ought to be . sort Of African
paradise but the whole history or that \
African settlement since the first rising Of its
Jacks for the abolition Of slavery Is only
ecord Of the inevitably downward tendencies
4 the negro back again to African barbarism,
I left to himself What, then, il his manifest
Iestiny In our Southern States under the new
II established, ofnegro supremacy,
I Is not difRcult to guess His natural indo-
ence will carry him to the point Of starvation
he pangs Of starvation will drive him to
,apine and bloodshei, and then will follow /
his bloody determination. This ID the moral
TO M from the ripening fruits Of negro
supre macy In Hayu s&