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of £251,979, three quarters of which were

cottons and linens. This businessour met-

chants can monopolize if they choose to

try it and if no trouble intervenes.

The condition of the Island is said to be

far worse than before the revolution of

1789. This is a mistake. Then there were

large plantations filled with slaves, pro-

duction was carried as far as possible with

slave labor, and large quantities of coffee,

sugar and cotton were exported still the

exportation of coflee is now two-thirds of

what it was then, while dyewoods, tobacco,

castor oil, which are now exported in con

siderable amounts, were not then prodaced

et all. Now there are no plantations, bus

every man has his small farm; less is ex

ported, but every family lives in compara

tive comfort. There are a million of people

in Hayti, but no paupers, a fact which our

civilization, freedom and intelligence can

not match.

The Spanish part of the Island is held

up as superior to the Empire. Facts do

not bear out the assertion. In Dominies

robberies and murders ars frequent, and

every traveler must go armed. Io Hayti

no men need go armed, and such is the

honesty of the people thatthe Captain of 8

merchant vessel, who has made above for-

ty voyages to Hayti, assured us but the

other day that he could take the first dock-

laborer be met and send him to a distance

with ten thousand dollars, and be sure that

it would be safely delivered.

We shall not be suspected of any od-

miration for his Imperial Majesty, Foust

I.—though we thick he is just as

mate a monarch as any other, and more

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New-York daily tribune. (1851). New-York [N.Y.], 1851-05-02. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030213/1851-05-02/ed-1/?sp=4

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Library of Congress, Chronicling America: New-York daily tribune, 1851-05-02.