Daily national intelligencer

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required by my instructions; but not in a manner to give

any cause of offence, or to reflect any dishonor on my Govern

ment.

I have the satisfaction of knowing that my conduct

received the hearty approbation of those who selected me for

this very delicate business, and that the results of my mission,

in arranging for the recognition of our commercial agents and

in procuring the remission of the ten per cent, additional

duty previously imposed on our vessels and cargoes, far ex

ceeded their expectations.

If any thing in my conduct gave offence to the Emperor

or his subjects, it was my efforts to produce a pacification of

the island, and the protest which I presented against his using

the mony, justly due and long withheld from our citizens, in

a war of extermination on the whites of the eastern or Domi

nican end of the island.

In this my conduct was approved,

not only by my own Government, but also by England and

France, which subsequently instructed their respective con

suls to follow my example and protest against the further pro

secution of the war.

A Boston merchant residingin Portau

Prince, in a letter recently addressed to me, says

“Should the Dominicans be subdued, the Haytiens will

not be satisfied till they are nearly or quite exterminated.

Cruelties will be practised, should this wicked war now pro

ceed, such as have not been recorded since the days of car

nage and rapine during the insurrection on this island in

1791 and ’92.

For the cause of humanity it is earnestly to be hoped that

the United States Government will take some measures to

How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

Daily national intelligencer. (1850). Washington City [D.C.], 1850-11-02. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83026172/1850-11-02/ed-1/?sp=3

ReferencesReferencias

Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Daily national intelligencer, 1850-11-02.