The People of Hayti. 
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POPULATION. 
The population of the Dominican Republic is generally 
stated at 120,000 ; it certainly is not greater, and probably is 
less. No reliable census of Hayti has been taken since the 
days of the French; because the country people, having a 
traditional aversion to such an enumeration, have thrown numer¬ 
ous obstacles in the way of one. Their ancestors associated the 
census with slavery; and such conjunctions have hitherto been 
fatal to every governmental project of the kind. The school¬ 
books of Hayti state its population at 800,000. But, after a 
careful study of all the statistics that have been published since 
the days of the French, and a review of the various causes 
which have tended to prevent a rapid increase, I cannot see 
how the present population of Hayti can be more than 600,000. 
A census has been ordered by the Government; and this point, 
therefore, will soon be decided. There are not five hundred 
whites in Hayti. 
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