I! \\VES, JOEL. 



HAYTI. 



880 



Mm: eleven weeks to tho Centre 



Chiircli of that city, was called to t!; 



in pivfeiv:. men as llcnmii Humphrey, 



lent of Amlu-r-t < 'olle::c, :iinl 



'.!irt:c-s f the Vermont I'niuTsity. 



11.- u . stdr, March -I, isls. lio 



of that church for forty-two 



r pastor for four years more; 



i after lsi;i ]R> performed no pas- 



. cMiiiicction \\ it!i it, h.' \. 

 a pa-tor iincrit'ts until his death. 

 Hi* pastorate- was extraordinarily successful, 

 more th:!M fifteen hundred persons uniting with 

 tin- cliurch during his ministry, and the benevo- 

 Iciico and moral power of iho church being 

 y augmented hy his labors. His preach- 

 ing was characterized by great plainness nnd 

 'diity, considerable logical power, nnd in- 

 earnest ness and honesty of purpose, ra- 

 ther than by the graces of oratory and brilliant 

 rhetoric. His services were greatly in demand 

 for special nnd occasional sermons, either in 

 behalf of benevolent organizations, or at the 

 opening exercises of religious bodies, at ordina- 

 insiallations, etc., etc. lie was also a 

 frequent and able contributor to the religious 

 periodical press, particularly during tho earlier 

 of his ministry. His first book was 

 "Lectures ro Young Men," published in 1828, 

 ami which reached a circulation of over 100,- 

 000 copies in this country, and probably more 

 than twice that number in Great Britain, where 

 it was published simultaneously by four or five 

 houses; his "Tribute to the Pilgrims," 1830, 

 awakened public attention to tho value of the 

 .-. ".rational Church order, and imvugurated 

 the general development of Congregationalism 

 throughout the country. His other works 

 were: "Memoir of Normand Smith," 1839; 

 " Character every thing to the Young," 1843 ; 

 "Tho Religion of the East," 1845; "Looking- 

 for the Ladies, or the Formation and Ex- 

 cellence of Female Character ; " " Washington 

 and Jay," 1850; a sermon on the death of 

 Chief-Justice T. S. "Williams, 18G2 ; and in 1865, 

 An Offering to Home Missionaries," a volume 

 of his discourses on Home .Missions, which he 

 published at his own expense for distribution 

 to the missionaries of the American Home 

 Missionary .Society. Besides these, he published 

 a large- number of occasional sermons, and 

 doubtless lent some aid in the preparation by 

 Miss Hawos of the interesting memoirs of his 

 daughter, Mrs. Mary E. Van Lennep, and her 

 son, Rev. J. Erskino Hawes. In 1844 ho visited 

 Europe and the East, spending some months 

 in Asia Minor and Turkey, where his daughter 



I'licii a missionary. 



His death was sudden. He had preached 

 twice on the sabbath, June 2d, though suffering 

 from a severe cold, but was attacked with hem- 

 orrhage and congestion of the lungs in the even- 

 ing, and grew worse gradually till. his death, 

 on tho 5th of the month. His wife, who was 

 well and with him during his brief illness, died 

 one week later, of the same disease. The city 

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in which ho had dwelt for nearly fifty years, 



and where ho was universally ami 



esteemed, turned out en matte to do !,...- 



hi-, remains. More than six thousand person* 



rifited the body as it lay in stm 



Church, and the funeral procession was : 



hours in passing a given point. 



HAYTI. a republic in the \Vcst Indies, con- 

 stituting tin- I'Yciich-speaking portion of the 

 i of San nominal. Area, 10,081 square 

 miles; populat;. '. The capital, Port- 



nu-1'rinee, has 'Jl,ii<iu inhabitants. The Pres- 

 ident of the republic, Sylvain Salnave. 

 elected on June 16, 1867, for the term of 

 four years. The public revenues, in 1864, 

 amounted to 41,032,302 Ilaytien dollars, and 

 the expenditures to 34,977,687 Ilaytien dollars ; 

 surplus of receipts, 6,054,615 Ilaytien dollars 

 (17.62 Hayticn dollars are equal to one dollar 

 in gold). 



In February, 1867, a revolutionary move- 

 ment broke out at Port-au-Prince against 

 President Geffrard, who had been in power a 

 little over eight years, having been, on the 

 overthrow of the Emperor Soulouque, pro- 

 claimed President of Hayti in January, 1859. 

 President Geffrard had been for several years 

 extremely popular, and his administration of 

 the government was attended with great suc- 

 cess. Subsequently he had been greatly embar- 

 rassed by financial difficulties, and having failed 

 in obtaining a loan from the merchants of Port- 

 au-Prince, he took possession of the custom- 

 house there, and superintended personally the 

 collection of dues. This was used by his ene- 

 mies to his disadvantage, brought him into 

 great odium, and prepared the way for his 

 overthrow. The first revolutionary attempt <vas 

 made on the 1st of February, but was speedily 

 put down by the President. Port-au-Prince 

 was declared to be in a state of siege, and the 

 national guards, headed by the President, con- 

 tinued to preserve the peace of the city. On 

 the night of the 22d, however, an immense 

 assemblage of insurgents met in front of the 

 President's palace, and immediately began an 

 attack upon it with cannon and musketry. The 

 President rallied the guards of the palace, and, 

 putting himself at their head, drove off the 

 rebels, who took refuge in Fort Lamarre, which 

 was subsequently attacked and taken by the 

 tirailleurs. On the 23d tranquillity was re- 

 stored, and tho President resolved to abdicate 

 as soon as the Chambers met in April. He at 

 once changed his ministry, and proclaimed a 

 general amnesty, excepting only three indi- 

 'v iduals, viz., Delorme, Salnave, and Solomon. 

 As soon as the President's amnesty was pub- 

 lished, and the captured, insurgents set free, 

 they lost no time in carrying the agitation and 

 spirit of discontent into St. Marc, and on or 

 about the 8th of March the people of that dis- 

 trict took up arms, and made General Nissage 

 Saget prisoner ; but he was released on parole, 

 pledging himself to lead them to Port-au- 

 Prince. As soon as President Gefl'rard be- 



