The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1848-04-22

Second, as TO the character of this popula-
ton:
The whites we're divided into three Glasses
creole planters. or large proprietors, European
residents, Office holders, adventures, specula
tors, poorer whites, ariizans, mechanics These
classes were bitterly hostile to each other. The
planter hated the European, and looked with
contempt on the poorer whites, who, in turn,
hated the upper or arstocratic order. One feel
ing alone united them-abhorrencs of the fire.,
people Of color, who, il is stated, owned one
third ef the real estate Of the colony Still they
were degraded--held as public property-com-
PEELED to do public service without compensa-
tion-insul.ed and enslaved in every way.
The Slaves-mostly Africans lately imported,
were brutality treated in the French section
They retained all the heather notions of their
native land.
A society thus constituted, however tempo.
rarily prosperous, must be subject to ruinous
commissions. II was repugnant to every prin-
ciPls OF humanity, morals, political economy
Any violent change in the mother country
would be certain to array in fierce conflict these
discordant elements.
Having thus shown the position of st. Domin-
90 on these points, the Era proceeds to show
LIST. That emancipation was not in any sense
the cause of the troubles and instructions in
st. Domingo.
9nd. That the history Of that doomed colony
furnishes conclusive evidence in proof of the en-
tire safety Of immediate emancipation as it is
called.
First, The beginning Of troubles.
This was in l1oo. Dec. 9th, that year, the
States General Of France, resolved TO admit to
that Of the other two orders. The white colo
nists Of st. Domingo thereupon asserted their
right to be represented, and commissioned
eighteen delegates, six Of whom were recognized.
About this time the Society Of Les Amis des
Noirs-then the IMssssie Club, "a secret associa-
ton Of planters,) with branches in the colo
MES, was instituted ostensibly to support the
Revolution, really to sustain this movement
against tho colonial authorities who were sup
posed to favor the rights Of the free people Of
color.
Every movement in France in favor of liberty
electrified her colonies. The fall Of the Bastile
caused intense excitement. All classes cried
"Liberty and Fraternity" What France did,
they sought TO do. A whisper of servile in
surrection was heard; large force was march
ed into the suspected district--all was quiet
there. This move against a feared horror at
this juncture, put thoughts into the heads Of
slaves never dreamed of before.
Second, the real struggle.
The Mulsttoes---many were educated, and
quitea number were ut Paris receiving an educa-
tion-began TO discuss these matters, and Oct
-, lie9, the wealthy among them despatched
dsputation to Paris to urge their claims to rep
ressntation in the general assembly. They
presented six million livres to the Government;
pledged one fifth Of their realty to aid in payment
Of the National debt. La FAYErrE, and his as
scciates, the PRESIDENT Of the National Assem-
bly,, M. CHARLES DE LAMErM Zone of the largest
propretom in the colonies,) received them
warmly, and sustained their claims.
Thus encouraged, the mulattoes of the colony
brought their claims before the authorities
They resisted. One Of them was hung at Cape
Francois for signing a petition on tbs subject.
A magistrate and an old man was murdered for
drawing up one. The poorer whites were ss-
pecially fierce in their assaults upon the mulat-
toes who thus far retsliated not
Jany., 1870, the Colonial Assembly convened
They were united In their hatred to the free
people Of color.
LAFAYrrTr and his friends mean time were
supporting them. March the 9Th. 1890. they
procured the passags Of decree in the Ma
tions Assembly, which declared:
"Ihat every person Of twenty-five years Of
age, the proprietor of real estate Or In fault Of
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