The national era

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inhabit a corner of it, and that the American

Government should enter forthwith into a treaty

i with these whites," for the reconquest of the

negro Republic. The morality of this proposition

is worthy of men wh#> advocate a revival o'

the slave trade, and of those who defend the

fundamental doctrine of the Black Democracy,

that negroes have no rights which white men

are bound to respect," It is the morality of

the highway and the pirate's creed.

The assumption that the entire eastern portion

of the island is inhabited by a white population

is notoriously false, and is only hypothecated

for the nonce, in order to give color to the

buccaneering proposition. It would not do to

propose a treaty with a mulatto Republic, even

for the expulsion or enslavement of negroes j

and hence the Savannah editor has the grace

to designate the Dominicans as white people.

The editor says

"Remedy for the L'kstabi.kxes.s of

Hayti.?It is a shame, and a reflection on modern

civilization, that one of the largest, richest,

and loveliest of all the Indies, lying almost

in a stone's throw of our shore, should be Abandoned?or

a greater portion of it?to the desecration

uf an idle and degraded negro uopula,

tiou. It is a sacrilege that so fair an inheritance,

crowned with all the natural blessings of

Heaven, should fall into the hands of a people

utterly incapable of appreciating or improving

it. We have not a thought that such a state

of things could exist in such close proximity to

any other civilized nation on the globe.

We have a practical remedy to offer for the

How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

The national era. (1859). Washington [D.C.], 1859-03-17. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn84026752/1859-03-17/ed-1/?sp=2

ReferencesReferencias

Library of Congress, Chronicling America: The national era, 1859-03-17.