Richmond enquirer

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mul savage atrocity to which oven fiction furnishes

no parallel. In tin' riot of passion, llayfi was

deluged with blood, nnd when the smoko of the conflagration

was blown away, nothing: wan soon but the

wreck and ruin of the fairest inland of creation. Its

fields Were wasted, its habitations burnt, and its commerce

destroyed. From these evils the people of the

Spanish dominion wore partially exempt: but their

prosperity stimulated the lust of their savage neighbors,

and in 1821 Boyer subjected the whole inland to

his sway. After enduring years of unutterable degradation

and wrong, the Spaniards rose against their

hlurk oppressors, and by great deeds of valor achieved

thuir independence, and established the republic of

Dominica.

Tho negro donpots of ffayti, however, did not abandon

the jirojeet of the reconrjuest of Dominica. Iinmenso

arm ion were ruined nnd precipitated upon the

Republic, but they were repulsed bv the heroic courage

of tho whites. These attempts were repealed

until 1849, when tho army of Konluuque was routed

iu a great aetiou by the patriot Santaiia, and a truee

for twelve months concluded. Souluuque threatened

a retiewul of hostilities iu 1860, but desisted frmn his

purpose in coiiseipieiiee of the interposition of Knglaud,

France and the United States. Recently, however,

be has been making formidable preparations for

another invasion of Dominica: am! the sympathies of

the country are invoked iu behalf of a people of kindred

race and civilization whom a savage despot

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Richmond enquirer. (1854). Richmond, Va., 1854-05-30. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn84024735/1854-05-30/ed-1/?sp=4

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Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Richmond enquirer, 1854-05-30.