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Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware
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Report on 300 respectable colored emigrants from Baltimore chartering the ship Armata for Hayti, with plans for more in spring. Positive description of Hayti's name change, climate, President Boyer, just government, and advanced institutions.
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The ship Armata has been chartered at this port to take out three hundred emigrants for Hayti. That compliment was immediately made up, and forty or fifty applications above that number were rejected, as the vessel did not afford accommodations for more. This emigration consists of some of the most respectable colored people in this place, many of whom have left wives, children and families in Baltimore, with an intention of revisiting this place early in the spring, and returning with them if their expectations are realized. We are assured that this is but the vanguard of a still more numerous emigration early in the Spring, if the present prospects should then prove equally suspicious.
Baltimore American, Nov. 15.
The name of St. Domingo is abandoned by the inhabitants of that Republic for that of Hayti, or the land of mountains—the original appellation given to that Island from the mountainous character of the country. The diseases so fatal to many Europeans and Americans result in a great measure from intemperance, and a premature exposure to the nocturnal dews. The President, Boyer, is familiar, frank, plain and accessible; attentive to every branch of political economy; overseeing with his own eyes, rewarding merit with his own hands, and is both beloved and respected by the inhabitants. Justice is fairly, promptly and impartially administered, and the government may, in the strictest sense, be denominated paternal. In some of their civil institutions the Haytians are in advance of all other governments, and it would not be beneath the dignity of the proudest European monarch to reform some of the branches of his administration on the model furnished by Hayti.
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Hayti
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Nov. 15
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300 emigrants to depart on ship armata; plans for larger emigration in spring if prospects favorable
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Ship Armata chartered in Baltimore to transport 300 respectable colored emigrants to Hayti, with additional applications rejected due to space limits; many leaving families behind with intent to return in spring; vanguard of larger planned emigration. Hayti formerly St. Domingo, renamed for its mountains; diseases attributed to intemperance and exposure; President Boyer described as accessible and attentive; government paternal with fair justice and advanced civil institutions.