The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-01-31
under consideration Ii committee for the
removal Of disabilities s
GE0BaE W. CAMP and DANIEL LYON OF
Petersburg, JAMES and -- BoIssEAu OF
Dinwiddie, and W. S. UNDERWOOD Of surry.
rIart;-Naero Governments.

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Hayti- Negro Governments.
The news already given to our readers
has informed them Of the death OF SAL
NAVE. He was defeated, and captured in
an attempt to escape, and was shot BECAUSE
among other things, he had annuiled the
Constitution" The idea! Hayden ga
wages talking about constitution when the
American Republic does not respect such
an instrument!
sA1yAvs had been turbulent spirit.
He had brought many to execution, and he
only followed in like manner the large
army he had sent before their time to their
long account. He was shot on the 10th Of
January, after short trial. The Presi-
dent Of the court martial said to him after
his sentence, You have just been con-
F" demned to the pain of death I; entreat
"you to be firm and courageous" To
which SALNAvE replied, :" shall not fail"
He had short time allowed him to write a
letter. He was then tied to a post, and
the signal for shooting him was given by
General CANAL thus: "You are going to
"be arraigned as traitor. Vive la Consti-
"tution !" The "deadly yolley," rs the
reporters call it, was fired, the populace Of
characterization Haytiens taking up the
cry of vive Ia Constitution" which they
understood about Us we'll as the parrots Of
their island who con pronounce the same
words.
Thus ends SALNAvE, and NIssAGE SAGET
succeeds him, and will probably follow him
to Hades in duo time.
The New York Tribune, which is very
able paper and in many respects excellent,
is yet afflicted with several tumors that.
have grown to be large and troublesome to
itself as we'll as it's readers. One OF them
is its ultra democracy, and another is it's
enthusiasm about the African races. For
merly Wing and Federal, it is with refer
ence to all other governments and in this
country with reference to the negro, demo-
cratic to the extreme. 1t enjoys row in
other lands-any resistance to authority
with as much delight as child would re-
gard PUNCH and JUDY. And it has watched
TIE negro Governments of the West Indies
with the deepest anxiety. Hardly day
passes, however, without some strange ca
per amongst the West India pets that
throws the IriJune into distress equailed
only by the trouble of the motherly hen
whose brood of young ducks has taken to
the water.
The Tribune deplores the shooting of
SALNAvE. 1t hopes better things, but Is
afraid SAGET will meet similar fate. 1t
speaks of there being democrats in
Hayti and "the blue fire of ultra-southern
Democracy" and wastes this fine sentence
upon the Haytiens: The shot which struck
"SALNAvE is deadly note, awaking fear
"ful echoes from the past history OF the
republican struggle in the Indies and
"south America" The hen is deeply dis
tressed about the young ducks. What is
all this worth? Nothing. Can the Tribune
tame leviathan? Can it make docile the
tiger so that it will be the gentle compan-
ion of man and harmlessly sleep at his
feet2 Can it cause the Ethiopian to change
his skin or the leopard his spots 2 1tistime
the Tribune had become practical and
learned to call these Haytiens and their
neishbe- nnra;ninans S.u4Nrr They are
nothing else. They slaughtered their mas
tiers, and, being unable to govern them
selves, are now living in idleness and filth
and slaughtering one another.
The Tribune sees hostile influence
peeping out in the last moments of the
black drama of SYLVAN SALSAvE; and
that hostility, sooth to say, is against this
country SALNAvE-and the Tribune begs
the admirers of our San Domingo bargain
to take notice" was captured by General
"CABRAL and his Dominicans." "There
els, therefore," it says, ga well-under-
"stood and earnest alliance between the
"party opposing the annexation Of San
" Domingo and the successful revolution
lists, whom, it is declared, our Govern
"ment opposed by aiding SALNAvE." These
two may end the reign of BAE", With whom
we have treated, and attempt to annul our
bargain. That would be terrible.
What stuff What should we care about
the riff-raf of those islands ?-to pretend to
anything regular and mutually binding
with savages who are themselves without
reason or law2 If we want to take the
islands and restore order, We have strength
to do it, and, for the sake of humanity, it
would be the best act performed by this
nation for long time to do that thing. II
that is not our object, why, let them alone,
and let them go on abusing and misusing
fair heritage of mankind and killing one
another.
The barbarities and internal strife of
these people ought not only to have long
since ceased to surprise the Tribune, but
should have induced it to give them up as
beyond hope.