The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1868-12-23

negro For this purpose he established an
annual rural festival in the month of may
at Port-au-Prince where all those cultiva-
tors who had been known in their district as
the most industrious planters, and had pro-
duced the greatest quantity of coffee, to-
bacco, cotton, or other article of commerce,
were assembled. On the day of the festival
the President, standing upon a platform in
the square before the government palace, /
surrounded by the high civil and military 1
functuarles of the republic, addressed the |
people on the great advantages of agricul- |
tural improvements, mentioning the differ
ent articles which were at the time most
neglected and those which were in most
demand. He praised publicly the cultIVa-
tors who distinguished themselves by the
Improvement of their plantations, called one
after another on the platform, and crowned
them wiah wreath of flowers. After they
had each received a civic crown they
marched, to the sound of music and amid
the hurrahs of the people, followed by the
| President and suite, to the government
| palace, where they dined with the President
and other high officials. This rural festival
was celebrated but three times, for the cere-
mony of the civic crowns was made ridicu-
lous by the negroes, who snatched the
| wreaths from the heads of the possessors,
/
| another. Thus Boyer found that he could
not arouse the ambition of the negroes any
more than he could awaken them to their
interests. He next tried to inculcate indus
trious habits by furnishing them an example
of the prosperity and success of industrious
persons of their own race. He had great
confidence in the industry of the North
American free negroes, and sent the direc-
tor of his high school, a mulattO named
Granville, to New York and Pennsylvania
with orders to engage male and female col
ored persons to emigrate to Hayti, with his
Boyer's) promise of grant of gratuitous
land. Granville arrived in Port-aC-Prince
with several hundred colored people, each
family WAS given q plantation but after
having lived there for some months, they
surpassed in laZiness and RIGHTEOUSNESS, the
7 indigenous negro. The third essay of Boyer
. subsequently proved failure. In 1928 the
celebrated Fanny Wright made her appear
ance in Hayti in order to repeat the last
, experiment of Boyer with plantation ne
groes from New Orleans as substitute for
! the free negroes of New York. Professor
Jaeger describes her appearance on landing
at POrt-au-Prince as ga very tall lady who
, walked very fast, y and who ''was elegantly
/ dressed in European style, with a large pro-
! truding bonnet in the form of an inverted
coal-scuttle, at that time fashionable, on her
{ head, overshadOwing her whole body. p
She was followed by twelve negro slaves
whom she had bought at New Orleans and
whom she set free in Hayti, purchasing for
, each some land on the island. Subsequent
2 ly Professor Jaeger met Miss Wright al
: the palace. 81 was delighted" he says,
r ,'to make the acquaintance of so distin.
: guished lady, who was not only handsome
4 but amiable and higly accomplished Hel
conversation which adorned her with new
Il charmes. But when she began TO noun
+ her hobby, explaining her too radical prin
: ciples, in which she advocated the universe
: reform of mankind by aboiishing slavery,
: sovereigns, standing armies, lawyers
: clGrgymen, marriages, and every religion
Il creed, by establishing Socialism and fret
4 love, dividing all wealth and property il
| I equal parts, the words ''si tacuisses, meliu
n feclsses" ('Eif you had been silent yoI
> would have done better'') lay upon m,
, tongue. When at dinner some one propos
> ed toast in honor of that enthusiastic
philanthropist; Wilberforce. She said: 81
you were acquainted with that illiterate
3 superstitious old man, so stupid that he eve
u believes in the Bible, you would not entor
p tain for him the slightest regard ''Fann
y Wright" continues the narrative, "in spit
II of her extraYagant ideas, was well-educa
3 ted, talented, kind-hearted lady, of gres
- intelligence. When she left Hayti she di
1 not return to England, but went to the Uni
70 ted States and settled with her fortune
y New Harmony, Indiana. She there NAL
oe ried DR.. DaYismond, and died few yeal
oI ago, leaving. it is to be hoped for bette
Is land, world which she despsired of refOl
1I ming. Her freedmen degenerated in th
ie same manner as those imported by Granville
20 thus furnishing new proof that the uneC
70 ucated negro is not fit to be free"
ID President Boyer, as last resort, endea1
is ored to educate the negroes into q life {
i'd labor. He engaged Professor Jaeger
deliver course of popular lectures on agr
n culture, in the hope of getting the peop
= interested. The lectures were eight
ii number, and were subsequently publishe
in by order of Boyer, under the title {
of "Lectures iuT'EhiStOire NCltllTeLLe q
Ia Haiti dppLicGe an recOnon1ie T'IlrdLe.
~ But the audience which attended were con
posed exclusively of foreign consuls an
al merchants, and the government officials
III the planters and negro labOTers, for who
Of they were intended, remained away, althOug
the lectures were free to all.
We The consequence of neglecting the cult
ed vation of the soul was the small export
sr- produce. The same district, which und
We the old slave system of regulated labor pr
- duced so largely, that to the value of Ov
$100,000,O 900 was exported annually; e
ported under the new system of free labo
lie only So, 900, 900. This brought through Il
ate Custom-house such an insignificant revenl
that it did not sufice to support the lar
NJ number of civil functionaries and stan
ci- ing army of $4,000 idlers Rag mont
zee was therefore created, but was the ruin
ID the President and his administration, (
ur the miserable paper currency in a she
To- time lost its reputation, and became fro
lg. day to day more deprecated until prem
lis um of from one hundred to four hundr
ye- per centum was paid for gold and silVe
as, The government was now bankrupt, a.
ce, the people, ruined and exaspersted, rose
he revolt. A number of high and low admi
ali istratiVe officials were slain by the peop
in and the unfortunate President Boyer on
,ur managed to escape to Jamaica, where
ed died in 1912.
I'm After BOyer's expulsion a negro nam
SITS Soulouque was elected President, After
Tx short time he initiated Dessalines and Chr
an toph by creating himself Emperor of Hay
is, under the name of Faustua !. This boz
i bastic negro emperor was soon expelled
eed the negro General Geffrard, who re-ests
Ou- lished the republic, and ruled it for ma
let years, but not long enough to teach the l
req groes industrious habits. In 1866 G,
ich frard was in his turn upset, and expelled
DIS. the negro SalnaYe, who is still fighting
ny the supremacy against a number of neg
i'd chieftains of the army of the republ
lic- Thus there has been since the comment
or, ment of this century and the independer
'os- of Hayti seven rulers of that country,
eir cluding one king, two emperors, and fl
,ies presidents, none of whom have been able
: to restore the country to the prosperity it
uc- joYed under the old slave system.
OF Is the South, now that all compuls(
ry- means are being Withdrawn that Wol
est make the negroes labor, to become anoll
ign Hayt, by taking away the control of
the that our ierisiation must gnard 81 IF all =,
the troll is taken from the hands of the viii
nm the negrnes will depenerate In the South