The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-01-31

teen years after--that is, until The revolution
Of 1853, which called Geffrard TO the Presi-
dency. Geffrard was faithful to all the ideas
Of the party Of progress from 1888 TO 1043
under Boyer, and had the honor to put
most Of them in practical operation. During
the eight years that he was President he did
more to promote the real progress Of Hayti
than all the preceding chleftains put together.
He organized 200 schools; caused the Roman
Catholic hierarchy to be established in the
Church. to reform the degrading manners of
the debauched men who officiated at it's altar;
opened q seminary to educate native clergy;
introduced steamers into Haytien waters for
coast transportation; established Govern
ment foundry; opened medical, law, and
music schools, and also q school for instructing
Haytien youth in theuseful arts and trade; and
formed the nucleus of an efficient navy. The
culture of cotton, favored by the civil war in
the United States, was encouraged by him, in
the distribution gratuitously of cotton seed
among cultivators, and the introduction at
Government expense of cotton-gins-so that
this product became during his administration
an important article of export.
But in spite of this commendable progress,
Haytien society had not yet reached its equi-
hbrium; it still oscillated on its base. Why
so ? Because notwithstanding the progressive
ideas which triumphed in 1913, and received
substratum of Haytien society was left in
ignorance and superstition. The surviving
rival leaders of 1S43 became jealous of Gef-
fard. The new generation grew up in preju-
dice against new aristocracy, of which Gef-
frard and these generals we're supposed to be
the component parts. Divisions, jealousies,
and heart-burnings gave occasion to class
of half-educated young men, raised up from
the ignorant masses since 1S43, to make re-
sistance Ia the existing rule. A new revolu-
tion found its leader in Salnave, who headed
the formidable rising at Cape Haytien in
1865, from the effects of which Geffrard 8
Government never recovered, and which ulti-
mately resulted in the call of Salnave to the
Presidency in 1867.
The masses, in all their ignorance, were in
stalled in power and place by the last revolu-
ton, against which whatever is left of intelli-
sence and civilization in the country has been
struggling with deadly tenacity, in order to
prevent an entire relapse of Haytien society
into barbarism. Superior intelligence and
civilization have at length prevailed but caste
rule and aristocratic cliques ought now to be
at an end in Hayti. The roughest picquet of
the mountains holds with the most accom-
plshed native of the cities the much
coveted brevet of general. With the
terror which his pointed spear has
spread around the aristocratic cities of the
South lately in rebellion against the Govern
ment of which he is devoted soldier the
picquet has conquered a respect for his class
which cannot be disregarded by any future
government of Hayti without peril Of being
instantly overthrown. The present, 1 trust,
is the last important revolution in Hayti.
Although o counter-revolution may be neces-
sary to settle definitely the idea gained by
Salnave's advent to power, as 1858 was needed
to supplement 1S43, yet the rights of the
democracy have now been Aindicated past re-
call and Hayti is ready to enter upon a career
of peace.