The southern press

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which subsists is that of a bloody and stupid

beast w.ho is emperor over one corner of the

island. Off from the seaports, the people have

lost arts, religion, industry, decency?have re.lapsed

into absolutecanibalism. Dr. Nott states,

on the authority of an eye-#itness, that on two

occasions while travelling in Hayti, he aaw the

negroes roasting and eating their Dominican

prisoners by the road side.

In the free States of this country, the negro

race can reach every advantage which the white

possesses. A large portion of them are educated.

But where have they evinced capacity

to make use of our civilization Where have

their best classes achieved a higher destiny than

that of tavern waiters Where have their

masses risen above the very lowest level of the

worst population Where has any individual

even, attained, not to say distinction, but even

res|?ectability, in any profession In Englfthd,

many negroes who were supposed to exhibit

talent wtien children, have been subjected to a

hot-bed process of culture, snd two or thre^of

these have been brought up to the mark of writing

verses. These have been collected in a

volume; and Bishop Grcgoire of Blois has

wrirten a very stupid book to prove therefrom

the intellectual equality of the race. But any

one who will take the trouble to read these

verses will find them for the most part a

doggarel too poor to be called verse at all;

and whenever a copy occurs of sufficient merit

for the poet's corner of tho aoii1lp?t. kind of

country newspaper, its author is sure to turn

How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

The southern press. (1851). Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.], 1851-04-09. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn82014763/1851-04-09/ed-1/?sp=1

ReferencesReferencias

Library of Congress, Chronicling America: The southern press, 1851-04-09.