The Republican journal., 1870-01-20

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WEST INDIA NAVAL STATION HOW
THE RADICALS PROPOSE TO GETIT.
The desirahleness to this country of for
titled naval station among the West India
Islands has long been apparent. As a STRATA
getic point, and a base Of supplies, is case of
Il war with a naval power, its value would
be immense. Naval men have urged its inn
portance, far-seeing statesmen have COM
mended it, and the commercial men of the
country have demanded such an acquisition
The need of a port of refuge and the demand
tor it became SO strong while Mr.. Seward
administered the State Department, that his
fertile brain busted itself with scheme for
its realization. Casting his eyes about to
discover what territory was eligible, and
could be had they fixed upon the Island of
st. Thomas, one of the Virgin group. 1t is
snug, compact, high land, with an area Of
only twenty-four square miles, and a popu-
laton of twelve thousand, mhite people, It
has magnificent iarbor, so strongly iorti-
. fed as to be impregnatle. The climate is
remarkably healthy.
| After much solicitation, in 1867, Denmark
consented to sell this island and the adloin-
inc one of St. John to the United States, for
seven and a half million Of dollars, provided
the people of the island voted to be 50 trans
ferred. The people did so vote, with only
! twenty two in opposition, and the King and
;he Danish parliament ratified the agreement
Aud there the matter ended The radicals,
who control Congress, have left the Danish
government and the contiing people of St.
Thomas in that humiliating situation, with
out word of explanation or apology.
The administration of Gen. Grant has
found Il new love in the Caribbean Sea-an-
other people more in accordance with their
notions, with whom to negotiate, 1t has fix
ed its affections the negro republic of
llayti, the western end of the island of San
Domingo This island formerly belonged to
France. but was lost by a successful inslr-
rection OF the negroes in 1870. That revolt
has passed into history as developing great
er cruelties and atrocities than the world ever
saw before or since. The wretches revelled
in the blood of the white population. Every
white man, woman and child that did not es-
cape from the island, was massacred Those
planters who had been most humane and kind
tn hair al hn Eat ~
the rest. Women and children, bows and
men, al wore murdered in cold blood.
Heads were hacked off as trophies. Unborn
children We're ripped from their mothers,
and carried in professions on pixies Every
other conceivable form of ootragc was per
petrated.
From that day TO this, the negro has reign
ed supreme in Hayti The plantations have
gone back to a state of nature. There are
no exports save 4 little coffee and the native
woods Intercourse with white traders keeps
up an appearance of civilization on the coast.
but in the interior African barbarism holds
sway. They differ but little from the tribes
that Livingstone encounters in his central
African travels. They worship idols and
snakes, and perform the most revolving rites
of superstition.
1t will scarcely be credited that the radicals
propose to cheat Denmark, after Offering to
buy st. Thomas, and to pay million and a
half in gold for this reduced map of Africa.
with its barbarous inhabitants Yet such is
the fact. Last week President Grant sent in
to the Senate a treaty for the annexation of
Hayt, and urged its ratification!
1t would be refreshing to that part of the
country which don't believe is quite SO strong
an infusion of Sambo, to know where the
party in power proposes to stop. These gen
try have set free the negroes of this country,
at fearful cost, and conferred upon them
all possible privileges. 1t has compelled the
white citizens to share with the blacks every
thing except their brains-and it would do
that if it were possible. Now it is very de-
sirable to know how extensive programme
we are asked to enter upon. Are we to take
Ethiopia, Congo and Dahomey next Please,
gentleman of the radical persuasion let us
know how much niger we are expected to
swallow-what new conception Sister Sum
ner is about to bring forth