Weekly Indiana State sentinel

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abolitionists hardly may expect We have

here a correspondence "from Port-au-Prince,

published iu the Augsburger Allgemeine Zei

tung, a paper of great authority, and occupy

ing a conspicuous place among the first jour

nals of the old continent, which we take the

pleasure to translate literally:

"Port-au-Prince, January 20.

"If one would criticise on the question of

negro emancipation after our (Haytien) cir

cumstances, the result would be rather a com

fortless one for a philanthropist, to whom

veracity would yet be of more value than the

triumph of his humane efforts. This country

has made since its liberation no progress

whatever. The population partially live upon

the produce of the grown-wild coffee planta

tions, the remainers of the French dominion.

Properly speaking, plantations after the model

of the English in Jamaica, or the Spanish in

Cuba, do not exist here. Hayti is the most

beautiful and the most fertile of the Antilles.

It has more mountains than Cuba, and more

space than Jamaica. Nowher the coffee

id thread, and in the X'theraJyokenJ .trfe Jf rJ4J.aJ lift

r in.rthe WMm tL-rlTn5iri I ijHir lkes a mountainous soih

But the indolence of the negroes has brought

the formerly so splendid plantations to decay.

They now gather the coffee only from the

yoicn-wiU trees. The cultivation of the su

gar cane has entirely diasapi eared, and the

island that once supplied one-half or Europe

with sugar receives now its own wants from

Jamaica and the United States. To the ban

ana tree and the half-wild hogs, owes the

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Weekly Indiana State sentinel. (1855). Indianapolis [Ind.], 1855-05-10. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn82014286/1855-05-10/ed-1/?sp=1

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Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Weekly Indiana State sentinel, 1855-05-10.