Daily national intelligencer

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is almost nothing here which can interest or amuse

after the first excitement of curiosity is over; no so

ciety, no literature, no science, no art; nothing but

the caricature of an Imperial Court and the specta

cle of a population whose whole existence is exclu

sively animal. Strange that such a land, of such

illimitable fertility and exquisite beauty, should

have been assigned to such a race, who can neither

develop its abundance nor enjoy its loveliness.

It

is to be hoped that the genius of universal annexa

tion will one day afford it a full opportunity of

setting its importance and doing the good service of

which it is capable and that its present occupants

are only a sort of ministere de transition between

the past prosperity of its colonial condition and the

future fulness of its Yankee maturity. j

Port au Prince is admirably situated at the head

as

of one of the safest and most beautiful bays in the

world. The streets rise gradually from the water

and cross each other at right angles, covering an area

of about a square mile. Most of them are entirely

unpaved, and resemble the worst kind of disjointed

country roads, with all the filthy concomitants of the

dirtiest

of town

populations.

There

are

arcaded

side-walks, however, which when not occupied,

as

they generally are, by the owners of the houses with

the implements of their trades or their articles of

commerce, afford a refuge to the promenader from

the rays of the sun.

As each part of the pavement

belongs to the corresponding house, there is great

How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

Daily national intelligencer. (1852). Washington City [D.C.], 1852-01-03. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83026172/1852-01-03/ed-1/?sp=2

ReferencesReferencias

Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Daily national intelligencer, 1852-01-03.