THE INTERNATIONAL MAGAZINE FOR JUNE.
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This number is one of the best and most attractive yet issued. It contains a great variety of interesting and valuable matter, among which we notice a very interesting and well-written account of the mission of Mr. Robert M. Walsh to Hayti, as Special Agent of the United States. Mr. Walsh's instructions were to act in concert with the agents of France and Great Britain in an endeavor to induce the Emperor Soulouque to recognize the independence of the Dominican Republic. The writer gives a very graphic description of the character and court of the sable monarch, and of the progress and results of the mission. He represents Mr. Walsh as having acted with great energy and decision, and at various places in Hayti, as threatening to blockade and bombard Port-au-Prince in case Soulouque should still refuse to recognize the eastern part of the island as separate and independent. Armed coercion was apparently as familiar to him as his own title of "Special Agent," and his dreams by night and his talk by day seem to have been mainly of seventy-fours, frigates, paixhans, bomb-shells, rockets and thirty-two pounders. An inexorable and most unmitigated "interventionist" was Mr. Walsh, and if his advice had been followed, the "Napoleon of the West" would have been taught a lesson which he would not soon have forgotten. The Magazine contains also a great variety of other interesting matter, including several original stories and poems, and a large number of well-executed wood-cuts.
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and at various places in Hayti, as threaten-
ing to blockade and bombard Port-au-Prince
"oat in case Soulonque should still refuse to re.
cognize the eastern part of the island as
separate and independent. Armed coercion
Was apparently as familiar to him as his own
title of Special Agent,” and his dreams by
night og hie talk by day seem to have beea
mainly of soventy-fours, frigates, paixhans,
bomb shells, rockets and thirty-two pound-
os
an inexplicable but
But that the present Ad- EE
ers. Now whence got he these ideas? Not
from his own government certainly, for that
could not think of undertaking war against
Hayti, upon sucha secondary, diplomatic
question, without the authorization of Con-
gress. Nor, though we have no personal
knowledge of Mr. Walsh and cannot say
do we believe he would
what are his gifis,
indulge in these threats by way of pure
flourish and bravado. He must then have
got them at second hand from Messrs.
Ussher and Raybaud, whose governments
might talk of blockade and bombardment
without first asking permission of their re-
spective legislatures. It is more than prob-
sble then, that they were empowered to
blockade and bombard, if they should see
fit. Mr. Ussher had only to send to Ja-
maica, or at the farthest, to Halifax to find
the naval force necessary for the purpose
and Mr. Raybaud could in a few days have
brought ships enough from the French isl-
But neither thought proper to take
this step. The reason is that both preferred
to have the United States doit. It was
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New-York daily tribune. (1851). New-York [N.Y.], 1851-06-06. US/DR Newspaper Timeline, record cr29621-1. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030213/1851-06-06/ed-1/?sp=4
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Library of Congress, Chronicling America: New-York daily tribune, 1851-06-06.