The banner-enterprise., 1884-03-17
The Haytien Rebellion.

The New York Sun, speaking of the Hay
ticn rebellion, says:
"With the fall of Miragoane one of the
most stubborn of the instructions that from
time to time distress the Republic of Hayti
comes to an end. The three towns held by
the insurgents were Jeremie, Sacmal and
Miragoane, on the coasts of the long PENN
sula in the southern part Of the island Jere-
mie was the first to surrender, after bloody
combat. Jacmal followed it's example on the
10Th of December, and now, with the yield
ing of the third port, a revolt which has ost
hundreds of.lives and millions ofmoney, and
which at one time threatened to develop into
q race massacre, is crushed on the spot of its
origin.
Apart from the commercial interests of
the United States in this event, the rebellion
has derived an Importance for US from the
fact that it was set on foot by an armed ex-
pcdition starting from this country as o
base. Boyer Bazelais and his follwers, who
landed at Mirsgoane on the night of the 29th
of last March, there surprising the garrison
and capturing the fort, had been conveyed
thither by an Americun fruiterer. the Tropic.
This vessel had left Philadelphia with a Sc
cret cargo of arms, uniforms and ammuni-
tion; she had been boarded at the island of
Ingua by Bazclais and his followers, who i'm
mediately put on the uniforms and drilled
with the guns; and the completely of the
Tropics officers in this daring violation of
our neutrality laws was formally established
by United States court, which sentenced
them to fine and Imprisonment.
Besides the sanguinary fighting around
the three towns held by the rebels, who have
made desperate sorties, Port-au-Prince itself
has been the scene OF pi lage, incendary
fires and murders, which have caused great
destruction. One three days riot there was
only quelled, after great excesses, by land
ing marines from five foreign war vessels
lay in the harbor The commerce of Hayti
has of course suffered greatly during the
past year, and the LOST of putting down the
rebellion has added fresh burdens to her
crippled finances.
Nevertheless, the United States Govern
ment is not justly chargeable with cheese mo-
mentous results of the violation Of its laws.
For the outbreak of the insurrertion was
foreseen by no one, not even by Solomon's
Government ITSELF Boyer Bazeais,a grand
son of one of the early Presidents of Hayti,
and himselfa lawyer and statesman of the
highest repute. had, up to last spring, re
NAMED quietly in Jamaica, whittier he had
fed in 1879, when the party of which he was
chief failed in its attempt to overthrow
President Boisround Caval His move to
oust Cayals successor was wholly unex-
pected; and while the officers of the Phila-
delphia vessel were positively implicated in
the plot to break the laws, oar Government
has taken special pains to discharge its full
duty towards Hayti by since checking sew
eral other lswless expeditions designed to
aid the insurgents.
Will the downfall of the rebellion be fol-
lowed by massacres of the conqured! Solo
mon recently addressed these words to his
adherents:
II again recommend the greatest patience,
the greatest moderation and the strongest
faith, for it is not q man you defend, but
principles. Then shame upon those who
will not see in all the children of Hayti
brothers and friends
The sincerity Of these praiseworthy senti-
ments will now be put to practical test"