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quest, but failed for want of good generals

ship and because his chief opponcat had

too much of it. Sull, he has never recogz-

nized the Republic, but has kept up a state

of war, and has constantly threatened new

expeditions.

Such was the condition of things up to

the recent interposition of the representa-

tives of France, England, and the United

States. In reply to them and their menaces,

Soulouque refused to make peace, or to

agree to a truce for ten years, but promised

to suspend the war virtually. He a-cord-

ingly issued a proclamation inviting the

Dominicans to come in and trade, and as-

suring them of kind treatment, even if they

should not openly return under the Haytian

Government. Since then, at some points

the mivitation has been accepted, and the

Dominicans have begun to trade—to them

a matter of some unportance, as the Hay-

tians buy their beef, for which otherwise

they have no sale. At one point the Hay-

tian officer who crossed the frontier with a

small body of soldiers, under a flag of truce,

to earry Soulouque’s proclamation, was be

set and driven back with the Joss of a few

killed and wounded. Who was to blame in

this affair we do not know each party ac-

cuses the other but we incline to think the

fault was on the side of the Dominicans

because their leaders and part of the people

(there is a Haytian party among them) want

no peace short of a recognition of their in-

dependence, while the Haytians do want it:

and because the Dominicans have told fierce

stories of other similar affairs which have

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New-York daily tribune. (1851). New-York [N.Y.], 1851-09-03. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030213/1851-09-03/ed-1/?sp=6

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Library of Congress, Chronicling America: New-York daily tribune, 1851-09-03.