BY SIR SPENSER ST. JOHN, K.C.M.G. FORMERLY HER MAJESTY’S MINISTER RESIDENT AND CONSUL-GENERAL IN HAYTI, NOW HER MAJESTY’S SPECIAL ENVOY TO MEXICO. Whilst in Port-au-Prince, a Spanish colleague once remarked to me, “_Mon ami_, if we could return to Hayti fifty years hence, we should find the negresses cooking their bananas on the site of these warehouses.” Although this judgment is severe, yet from what we have seen passing under the present Administration, it is more than probable--unless in the meantime influenced by some higher civilisation--that this prophecy will come true. The negresses are in fact already cooking their bananas amid the ruins of the best houses of the capital. My own i…
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