Daily national intelligencer

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more of the article than any-equal territory in Christendom,

he now is obliged to send to a druggist to purchase it as he

would medicine! Agriculture, commerce, literature, als,

law and order—all are gone, and I was assured a few years

ago, by Admiral David Porter, that he. on two occasions, saw

negroes roasting and eating Dominican prisoners by the way

negroes roasting and eating Dominican prisoners by

side, in Hayti! For a time the white blood of the mulatto

caste ruled in the island, and with some semblance of semi

civilization but the blacks, becoming jealous, exterminated

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them, and swept every remnant of civilization from the coun

try, which soon relapsed into savagism. History affords no

ample where the white race has had such an opportunity

and failed, while it affords many where it has advanced in

spite of impediments.

There is one illustration to be drawn from modern history,

which alone should suffice to demonstrate the difference be

tween racee. What was the condition of the Russian Empire

one hundred and fifty years ago A nation of uneducated bar

barians, consisting of ignorant, cruel nobles, domineering over

hordes of serfs. What advantages had they for commencing

the work of civilization, compared with those of the black

Haytiens, except that of race 1 With one of the most inhos

pitable climates of the earth; without foreign commerce or

contact with civilized nations; cut off from the rest of the

world for want of those communications established by mo

dern ingenuity wanting in the mechanic and other arts in

How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

Daily national intelligencer. (1866). Washington City [D.C.], 1866-02-08. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83026172/1866-02-08/ed-1/?sp=1

ReferencesReferencias

Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Daily national intelligencer, 1866-02-08.