Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-01-01
Negro Supremacy in Hayti = solnave
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We published yesterday short letter
from correspondent at Port au Prince,
the capital of the negro republic of Hsyti,
which furnished us more graphic pic
ture of the delightful state of things in
that happy land of negro supremacy than
we have had. for very long time from
any other historian. Solnave, President,
an unadulterated negro of the Congo
breed, hideous savage in photograph,
and horrible barbarian in his actions,
is engaged in ferocious struggle against
horde of consplrators who are resolved
to null him down. The man whom he
by revolutionary movement displaced
-Geffrard, o mulatto-was an intelli-
gent, educated, amiable and polished
man, far too much for the unwashed
Africans constituting the bulk of the
Haytien people Solnave, more ferocious
than Soulouque, seems determined at
least that if he is to fall it shall not be
from the amiable weaknesses and in
dulgences of Geffrard. Solnave, in fact,
is a worthy imitator of the model African
King of Dahomey.
1t appears that the Caccs (whatever
they may he) have gradually gained
strength on the frontiers of St. Domingo,
and have retaken Fort Biasson, driving
SoInave's troops before them amid great
rejoicings; that, alarmed By these re-
verses, Solnave had embarked on board
a steamer, with large body of Haytien
savages from the interior known as the
Piouets, who we're used by Soulouque in
his reign for 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 any
thing of the genus homo discovered by
Du Chaillu in Equatorial Africa. We
see, too, in the employment of these
creatures by this model negro Solnave
something OF those peculiar ameliora-
tions of negro society resulting from
negro supremacy.
In the absence of Solnave from his
capital the government had been left in
charge Of General Ulysse-probably so
named after the world.renowDed Ulysses
S. Grant, but a black horse of a totally
different color. This negro Ulysse, it
appears, is the butcher who did Sou
louques bloody work whenever his SER
vices we're wanted He must be fear
full barbarian in his way, when the oppo.
nents of his policy in the Legislature, TO
escape his clutches, had sought the pro-
lection of the British Consulate. BE
seems, likewise, to be full believer of
the doctrine of negro supremacy, from
an order which he had issued requiring
every white woman to rise and salute his
ebony highness while passing by their
verandas. The peacesbly inclined in
habitants of Port au Prince we're in fear
at any moment of having those brutal
naked sayages from the interior let loose
upon them like dogs, should Solnave
take offense or become disappointed.
And this is negro supremacy as now
illustrated in Hayti, where the generous
soil produces enough for the negro's
subsistence without labor, and where the
never-failing tropical climate relieves
him of all the expenses required on the
main land for clothing. Considering the
naturally indolent nature of the negro,
Hayti ought to be a sort of African par
adise; but the whole history Of that Afri-
can settlement since the first rising Of
its blacks for the abolition Of slavery is
only record of the inevitably downward
tendencies of the negro back again to
African barbarism, if left to himself.
What, then, is his manifest destiny in
our Southern States under the new dis
pensation, if established, Of negro su.
premacy, it is not difficult to guess. His
natural indolence will carry him to the
point of starvation, the pangs of starva-
ton will drive him to rapine and blood
shed, and then will follow his bloody
determination. This is the moral con-
veyed to us from the ripening fruits of
negro supremacy in Hayti.-NeIC York
Herald