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ty, sacred aud unimpeachable, must be adoed

its imperial character as an example uf seltgov

eminent, Jeing the first in the history ot ibe

Alrican race, anil a promise ot the future.

Who cm doubt tintas such this Black Re

public bis a value beyond all the products ot

its teeming ti0nic.il soil?

And noie comes the wrong perpetrated by

tbe great republic. In the effort to secure tbe

much-cove ed ttriiiory, our government, not

content with maintaining tbe usurper Bat ζ in

power, occupying tbe harbors of Dominica wiili

tbe war-ships ot tbe United States, sent other

war-ships, being noue other tban iur mort

powertul monitor, ibe Dictator, with tbe frig

ate Severn as consort, and with yet otber

monitors intbeir train, to menace tue black

republic by uu act ot war. An American ad

miral was fuund to do tilts thing, aud an

American ministei, himself of African blood,

wasfouud to aid the admiral.

Tbe despatch ot tbe Secretary of State insti

tuting this act of war is n >t communicated to

tbe Senate; Vut we are sufficiently enlightened

by that ot Mr. Bassett, our minister resident

at Port au Prince, who, under the date of Feb.

17, 1870, iuiortns tbe Stale Department in

YVa-biugiou that he bad "transmitted to the

Haviicu government notification that the

Unite·! Slab s asked and expei ted it to obsoive

a strict neutrality in reference to the in'.erna

rinnal H iiraofr' Hun Πιΐιηιηβ.· ο..<1 than m

liis supet«erviceabie alacrity, he It·is the 'e

partineni know that ht- cuiuiiiiiDioaieo to Com

ai.iuiltr Onu of the Seuiiuo'e' reports that

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The Portland daily press. (1871). Portland, Me., 1871-03-28. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83016025/1871-03-28/ed-1/?sp=3

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Library of Congress, Chronicling America: The Portland daily press, 1871-03-28.