Beauties of Negro Rule [pp. 710-712]

BEAUTIES OF NEGRO RULE.
The word blaze, or the idea conveyed by it, is not known
their hearts beat true to the call of friendship. Respect for
women seems an innate principal. Besides the regular Texans
are a class of vagrant Americans who give a bad name to
Texas.
The history of each, he concluded, differs from the other,
yet through the character of all three runs a tinge of romance
and chivalry which excites our admiration. In this wild
region deeds are sometimes done which makes the blood run
cold to read of-yet the vast extent of the country should be
borne in mind, and the character of the State should not be
judged from the isolated acts of a roving population. Texas
stands among the slaveholding States unrivalled in cultivation
and production, in energy and enterprise, in intelligence and
morality. It is only in the light of history that its annexation
can be fully comprehended, coupled as it is with the Mexican
war and the discovery of gold in California. It is only in the
light of history that we shall be able to read the now silent
workings of a new and peculiar phase of civilization. Yet of
this there is no doubt that were the rest of the Union to pass
from existence, there would be left within the limits of Texas
the elements of a magnificent empire.
BEAUTIES OF NEGRO RULE
THE PRESENT AND PAST 0OF HAYTI.
After the thorough discussion of negro freedom and its fruits on the British
West Indies, given in our last issues, by D. G. McCord, of South Carolina, a
slight glance at another chapter of the subject will come in not inappropriately.
Let those whose minds may be occupied with Cuba Africanization give a few
moments to these facts and figures.
"PORT-AU-PRINCE, January 20.-If one would criticise on
the question of the negro emancipation after our (Haytien) circumstances, the result would be a rather comfortless one for a
philanthropist, to whom veracity would yet be of more value
than the triumph of his humane efforts. This country has
made since its liberation no progress whatever. The population partially lives upon the produce of' the grown-wild coffee
plantations, the remainers of the French dominion. Properly
speaking, plantations, after the model of the English, in Jamaica, or the Spanish, in Cuba, do not exist here. Hayti is
the most beautiful and the most fertile of the Antilles. It has
more mountains than Cuba, and more space than Jamaica.
Nowhere the coffee tree could better thrive than here, as it
especially likes a mountainous soil. But the indolence of the
negroes has brought the formerly so splendid plantations to
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