Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-06-11
THE HAYTI REVOLT.
Comment of a Defiant Native
Journalist.
RIGHT OF ASYLUM IN C0NsULATEs.

A Matter That May Call for Some Plain
Talk by the Great Powers-Hippolyte'
Soldiers Violate the Asylum and L'Or-
DIRE Newspaper Approves the Violation
The Recent slaughters Also Com
mended and a Little More of the Same
Foreshadowed.
NEW YORK. June n.-"LOrdre," Port
au-Prince paper, devoted to the government
of Hippolyte, published in its number of
May 80 a rather threatening paragraph in
regard 10 the conduct of the foreign con-
suls during and since the recent bloody
occurrence in the Haytian capital. 1t is
usual in such circumstances for the de-
feated belligerents TO find refuge in the
.consulates, which enjoy in Hayti and in
the Spanish American countries the an
-cient right of asylum, recognized in the
middle ages as belonging to church build
ings.
Invaded the Consulates.
1t appears that the soldiers of Gen. Hip
polyte have not respected that right this
time and that they have forcibly taken
from the Dominican and other consulates
at Port-au-Prince political refugees, who
were shot Immediately. The paper L'Or-
DIRE, without abiding to those executions
or to the violation of consular residences,
speaks as follows: There are people who
imagine that they are safe because they
are in the consulates Very good But
how is it that persons who went out from
a consulate, in order to attack the jail.
have entered there again. after the flight
of their accomplices? What is the right
such people make use of, and under
what right do the consuls act as they do?
viii Rave Its Questions Answered.
Are fhe consulates a kind of fortress
from which they sally forth when they ex-
pect to win, and to which they return as
soon as they have lost the fight?7 And
L'0rdre adds: That will make the sub
ject of another article" 1t is evident that
this promised article will be an arraign-
ment of the asylum privileges en-
joyed by the consulates, which
are so useful in. mitigating the
horrors attending the frequent revolu-
tons. especially in Hayti. In case the
government of Gen. Hippolyte should dare
TO claim automatically, or not to respect
practically, the consular privilege of asy-
IuIn, which was always recognized, the
foreign powers of Europe and America
cannot fail to unite and to assert by an
ultimatum OF an international character
the right of their consuls TO protect polit-
lcal refugees.
Justifies the Slaughter.
The same paper attacks the defeated in
surgents in a ferocious manner The
affair, it says. did not last long; but its
Consequences have been bloody They
were what they ought to have been; we
say no more about it, and it is urgent that
they should continue some time longer.
The actual government is on the defen-
sive. What is true for the private citizen
is true for the government. When you
kill in defending yourself, you kill we'll
that is, you kill according to all legal
forms. The rebels must be annihilated,
and also the party which they represent
Wants some More BIoodshed.
1T is sufficient says L'Ordre, ito give
the name Of the secret chief of the insur-
gents TO convince the republic that the
revOlutionists Of POrt-au-Prince are BAN
dts Of the worst kind. Legitimists, Pi-
quantists, Prophatists. Canalists, Nation
ais, and Liberals. even former Hippolytists.
have unanimously grouped themselves an
der the banner of St. Surin Francois Man.
igat. But the name of Nanigat has killed
them. We say kill, because those who are
not killed will soon be. Any other can
didacy,, actually supported, would also
have killed them