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into barbarism. Now, although it cannot be admitted 
that Hayti is as bad as Mr. Froude believes it to be, yet, 
supposing that it were, where is the analogy between the 
circumstances of the Haytians and the surroundings of the 
British Africans ? The Republic of Hayti was founded, 
for the most part, by revolted slaves, many of them pure 
barbarians, brought from Africa. These slaves had not been 
successful against their French Masters until they were 
joined by the free mulattoes of wealth and consequence. 
The latter threw in their lot with the slaves, only when 
the French authorities of Hayti persistently withheld 
from them their civil rights, despite the orders from the 
Government of France that those rights were to 
be conceded. Had Mr. Reeves and his coloured 
confreres in like manner gone against the whites in 
Barbados, the issue of that crisis might have been some- 
what different, so far as the question of retaining the 
Island's old constitution went. The bulk of the 
people of the infantile Republic of Hayti were 
revolted slaves of unmixed barbarism. Their descen- 
dants cannot be said to have relapsed into barba- 
rism, as the multitude had not risen from the condition 
in which the French left them. During the past 
95 years, the majority of these people have not enjoyed 
the leavening power of European influence. There is 
a class of educated persons among them, for the 
most part mulattoes, many of whom have been educated 
in France, but these are swamped by universal suffrage. 
Such men, if Mr. Froude would condescend to converse 
with them, would tell him how they lament the back- 
wardness of their country, its want of schools, its want 
of roads. Nevertheless, they have hope of better times. 
