Anti-slavery bugle

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notice, and employ many excellent workmen. The

tailor's art, practised by Haytian as well as for

eign workmen, follows tho European fashions.

But the business in which the improvement is

most evident is Cabinet-making. It is to some

skillful Gorman workmen wo owe the forma

tion of those young and intelligent Haytian

operatives, whose number is increasing every year

in our towns, and who make beau'.iful furniture,

after the European manner and iu a highly finish

ed style.'

"There is, indeed, no department of mechanics,

agriculture, or even the fine arts, in which the

people of Ilayti have not afforded a proof of their

ability to keep pace with European civilization.

"A H.iyti m friend of ours tolls nn amusing

story of a French bishop who was appointed to a

diocese in Hayti, nnd who went out to the coun

try with the idea that ho was going to labor among

a people as barbarous as the negro tribes of West

ern Africa. What was his.astonishmont, on land

ing at Jacmel, to find himself surrounded by nil

the evidences of an advanced civilization, and

welcomed by a society whose good breeding and

Iolisbed manners rivalled the social habits of

'nris or London. But the bishop would have felt

little -surprise nt what he saw and heard if he

had -been previously nware of the existence,

throughout the country, of an admirable system

of education. It may not be generally known

that so fur back as 1815, King Christophe intro

duced the Lancaeterian system, under the able

supervision of a number ot enlightened English

masters, whom be obtained from this country.

How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

Anti-slavery bugle. (1857). New-Lisbon, Ohio, 1857-07-11. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83035487/1857-07-11/ed-1/?sp=1

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Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Anti-slavery bugle, 1857-07-11.