Hayti and the Monroe Doctrine [pp. 131-136]

HIAYTI AND THE MONROE DOCTRINE.
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ART. II.-HAYTI AND THE MONROE DOCTRINE.
WE have just read a spirited volume, entitled, Soulouque
and his Empire," from the French of Gustave D'Alaux,
translated by John HI. Parkhill, A. M., of Baltimore, and
published by J. W. lRaiidolph, Richmond. The work is
amusing and instructive, and well-timed in its appearance
before the public.
The civilized world will not much longer permit the
naturally paradisiacal isle of H4ayti to remrain. a useless
waste, infested bv a horde of idle savages and pagains, and
ruled over by despots more cruel and blood-thirsty than
King Dahomy himself:
It must and wvill lbe conquered, law and order re-established, and industry restored to its civilized course.
Shall we persist in adhering to the Monroe doctrine, and
hold it out as a bait for the Yankees, or shall we not, rather,
so far deviate fromn that doctrine as to invite France to
repossess herself of her old colony, and make it agoain the
garden-spot of the earth? We think it will be best for us,
for HIayti, for all the world (save Yankee-land), that France
at once subjugate it, and set the negroes to work, instead of
leaving them to indulge in idleness, paganism, theft and
bloodshed. The lqorth cannot dispense with the products
of the South, and, when cut off fioom us, she will at once
endeavor to acquire colonial possessions in the West Iidies,
Mexico, or in South America. We should prefer France
as our neighbor; not only because we do not wish to be
hemmed in and surrounded by Yankees, but also because
we wish, now, to see a balance of power established in
America; and France, England, Brazil, the Northern
Union, and the Southernl Confederacy, would constitute
such a balance of power, and prevent the undue prepontiderance of any one nation. But yesterday, it was our interest
and our policy to have but one great American nation, and
that ourselves; to-day, we of the South, strengthen ourselves by multiplying rival nations, and thus preventing
the undue preponderance of any one of them. Too much
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