Show 0 THAT FOREIGN POLICY The opportunity which Mr Hi visr has found for asserting the vigorous foreign for-eign policy which he is known to favor has arisen in the case of Hayti and the secretary of state proposes to take advantage advan-tage of it It is announced that two war vessels will be dispatched to the island very soon whither it will carry three American commissioners whose duty it will be tn ascertain the merit of the revolution and use their influence in behalf of peace and order The gentlemen will also endeavor to obtain a station on the island for the United States We apprehend there will result little glory to the administration from the exercise of vigor in reference to Hayti If the government is not very careful it will bring discredit and trouble Instead of forcing ourselves into the Haytian soup wise statesmanship would advise keeping out of the mess as long as possible As the people must necessarily neces-sarily go with the island the acquisition of the latter with its ugly appendage would be little less than a disaster to the United States and to the Haytians This will be denied by nobody It is out of the question ques-tion for even Americans to maintain order and good government on the island before the natives have been exterminated and to enter upon a systematic course of killing off the turbulent people would hardly do in this age Then again France and England both have claims more or less well founded in Hayti and our interference with the island will result in trouble with the governments gov-ernments named The friendship of either the foreign powers is of more real value to the United States than the ownership of half a dozen Haytis peopled by semibar ians who delight in bloodshed and who have no conception of the benefits and pleasures of peAce1 Furtncrmorp lvht affair of ours is it that the Haytiaus ore engaged in a revolution i It is none I of our concern whethcc yy Ml l the revolution has merit for ea a matter mat-ter of fact Hayti is no more to the Unltel States than Timbuctoo And above all what possible credit can come to the great and glorious republic of the north jumping on to the insignificant little island republic If Mr BLAINE is eager to distinguish dis-tinguish himself as the proprietor and mover of a vigorous foreign policy he should exercise that policy in some other direction thanby interfering with the Kil kenny quarrel of the most trifling government govern-ment perhaps on earth unless it be some of the governments found on the Pacific islands In this case there is an opportunity opportun-ity for doing nothing more than getting laughed at by those powers wnich arc managed by statesmen |