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of the last-mentioned chieftain, in Decern-j

l>er, his capture by the Dominican General j

C'ahral on the 8th day of January following,

and, one short week thereafter, his

trial, condemnation, and death by shooting,

upon charges of high treason and other

crimes denounced by the Haytian Penal

('ode.

Thus Sylvain Sal nave sleeps now in a

to Ion's grave and General Nissage Saget

controls the destinies of Havti as its Provisional

President. What good?it may be

jK-rtinent to inquire?has been effected by

this change? If we accepted, without demur,

the opinion of the Neiv York Tril>tnw'?

correspondent,that "the masses, in all their j

ignorance, were installed in power and j

place by the triumph of Salnave over

Geffrard, we might, indeed, have reason to

rejoice at the overthrow of the former in

his turn. And if we believed, upon the

assertion of the same correspondent, that,

with the accession of Saget, "superior in-1

telligence and civilization have at length

prevailed," then we might heartily congratulate

Hayti upon its change of rulers.

But we are rather inclined to question the

genuineness of that superior intelligence

and civilization which signalize their advent

by such bloody proceedings as the

fusilade of Salnave and his adherents, and

by such wholesale proscriptions as precipitately

consign to banishment refined and

patriotic gentlemen like General Tate, the j

envoy of the ex-President to our own country.

For equally harsh measures as these,

we doubt whether Havtian history, dark

V

and ensanguined though its pages be, could

How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

New era. (1870). Washington, D.C., 1870-02-03. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn84024437/1870-02-03/ed-1/?sp=2

ReferencesReferencias

Library of Congress, Chronicling America: New era, 1870-02-03.