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1' rencn, then intimidated, and dreading the effects of a

collision ?ith men of such a stamp, flushed with horrid

i victory and recking with blood, tney averted the storm

hy quiet submission, hoping, but alas in vain, to be able

to live in peace with the new established people. It was

this absence of resistance, this quasi submission, which

gave to the negroes iu the eyes ot Europe and America

ttie false eclat of being the rulers of all the island, pos

sessors of all its domains, and ergo, a great people

They forgot that theie was a nation ot K.uiopean extrac

tion in leal possession of the best and largest portion of

the island, and certainly having a greatei title to be

called the people ef Hayti than a loose licentious multi- i

tude of blacks, just emerged through rivers of blood

and rapine, from long and habitual slavery to a doubtful

and untried liberty

Long and patiently did those whom we may with

greater justice call .the people of Hayti, or Hlspanlola,

submit to see the licentious negroes considered and treat-

ed as the rulers of the island; long time, lovers ol peace

and slow to resort to violence, they suffered the negroes

to oxhibit undisturbed, to the world, the progress of the I

experiment"

At length, in 1844, the rightful i?ople of Hispaniola I

arose, 11 one may so say, to undeceive the world, and to I

re assert the right of this island to be freed from the iron I

grasp of this tumultuous hand ol black pirates,

who so long had made its wostern shores their head

quarters. Mince that time tho struggle between the con

How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

The New York herald. (1845). New York [N.Y.], 1845-11-24. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030313/1845-11-24/ed-1/?sp=1

ReferencesReferencias

Library of Congress, Chronicling America: The New York herald, 1845-11-24.