The liberator

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white, of individuals from the United States, in some

part of the Dominican Republic.'

The Boston Post has already begun its defence

of this villany, in a characteristic parrgraph of

three or four lines, full of hypocritical wonder

that anti-slavery men should put forth hostile crit

icism on the disposition of our government to re

cognize the independence of Dominica. Of course,

that paper will never intimate to its readers, that,

if this disposition of our Government were honest

—if it is not, in fact, full of plotting piracy—it

would also propose a recognition of the independ

ence of Hayti and Liberia. There are more and

stronger reasons for recognizing either of these

geyernments than can be invented for this negoti

ation with Dominica. We have a large commerce

with Hayti, and Liberia has grown up under

American influences. Dominica is of little or no

importance commercially, and would now be polit

ically united with Hayti, if it had not rebelled and

withdrawn, because that government proclaimed

free toleration of all religious sects. The Do

minicans have the religious training and bigotry

of Spanish Catholics. They occupy what was the

Spanish portion of the island, and the Haytiens

that part which was held by the French.' But

they are all of African descent, and would consti

tute but one people, if not interfered with by the

rascally intrigues of outsiders.

Our Slave Power has decided that it will injure

the peculiar institution to allow the Dominicans

and Haytiens, whose parents were slaves, to real

ize a prosperous and happy fortune. It will not

How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

The liberator. (1854). Boston, Mass., 1854-10-06. US/DR Newspaper Timeline. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn84031524/1854-10-06/ed-1/?sp=1

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Library of Congress, Chronicling America: The liberator, 1854-10-06.