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Your corresponiemof last year, at Port au Prince,gave

an amusing account or our theatre, and the French play

there represented. Wt.en tho FUcrjid of that day was received

wo all laufbed and all protended to bo highly

amused, but muiiy were very angry, and your correspondent

found It necessary to be as outraged as any one

at the unwarranted liberty taken in criticising anything

connected with Hayti. It is singular that, as a people, we

should bavo so much ma.uva.ue hmte, and so little dignity,

or, rather, self control, that when the laugli is against ua

we must necessari.'y fall into a passion. Tho Hkralu baa

before this been tabooed, but occasionally our flies comc to

hand; and although more thoroughly hated than any other

paper, it is bylarthe most eagerly sought after. The

theatre la now agait established, but with somewhat loss

pretensions, and to prevent tho recurrence of the scenes

of last year a strong police force is announced in attend

ance. Under tho old rulo the police wero among the

curses of the oitv. Receiving scarcelv onv nav. thev. of

course, were uselegH when ttioy might have been of service,

and they only employed the Immunities possessed

in viituo of their position to oppress those who were helpless:

and as ibeir pay wua net sulllciciit to live upon, far

Ii sh to clothe tbemeolvca, they supported life by stealing

all stray swine and eomctimea cattle; the animal is Imrneulately

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The New York herald. (1859). New York [N.Y.], 1859-04-02. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030313/1859-04-02/ed-1/?sp=1

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Library of Congress, Chronicling America: The New York herald, 1859-04-02.