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race for self-government and civilized progress is being

ost laboriously, and, I may add, impatiently worked

out.

It is from such a commanding point of view that one

must study the civil wars and iuternal commotions that

Lave not ceased to agitate the bosom of society in thus

island since 1790, 1n order to obtain a just appreciation of

the late desperate struggle which has threatened the

overthrow, if possible, of the national existence of Hayti

ftself, by seriously menacing the destruction of its sov

ercign iudependence. For 80 years, that is since 1790,

when the men of color of San Domugo demanded equal

political rights at the bar of the National Assembly of

France, society in this island has carried on one long and

protracted revolt against the unjust proscriptious aud

unreasonable distinctions of caste.

From 1790 to 1804 the Haytians were engaved in a terri

ble hand-to-hand struggle against patriarchal slavery;

and had the satisfaction of seeing their desperate efforts

crowned with success, in the branding of African Slavery

as a crime, long before the so-called Christian and civil

ized nations of Europe aud America had legislated

sgainst the African slave trade as piracy. The United

States, the first to legislate ou the subject, only provided

tu toelr constitution that this abominable traffic should

be decmed piracy from and after 1508—that is, four years

after the andeperdence of Hayti had been established.

From 1806 to 1820, or thereabouts, Haytian society

entered upon its second revolutionary phase, in a struggle

How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

New-York tribune. (1870). New York [N.Y.], 1870-01-28. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030214/1870-01-28/ed-1/?sp=1

ReferencesReferencias

Library of Congress, Chronicling America: New-York tribune, 1870-01-28.