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

the colony. Santhonax, as last alternative,
Aug 20, 1898, proclaimed the abolition Of slave
ny throughout st. Domingo, and admitted the
blacks To nights, OF citizenship. The planters at
Port au Prince submitted. What followed!
The negroes Of the South were appeased, and
went 10 work. They committed no act Of vio-
lence The insurgents Of the North did not Ie-
turn to the plantahons-for they were dniled
soldiers and in the pay Of Spain. But the plant
ers were disailecte'l, they proposed to Greet
Britain to give them the Island, provided Great
Britain would help them TO reduce the blacks to
slavery. The bargain was made!
Sixth-The English IrasiOH.
: The English armament appears-seizes many
places; the whole western coast. The Span
ers concentrate their forces in Cape Francois,
Port de Paix, ana Port au Prince. The gilillo-
tine Is erected in the latter place; blood flows so
prOfusely that the elnancipated negroes cry out
against it, and SanthonaX stops the internal ma
chine Port au Prince capitulated TO the Eng
lish in 1874. The commissioners, the same year,
are seized, sent home to France, tried, acquitted,
and their unconditional act ~ Emancipation
ratiGed by the General Assembly.
In the North, meanwhile, the Spanianis and
blacks consolidate their power. The English are
secure in the West The Spaniards. by procla.
nation, invite all the fugitive planters to return,
and settle upon their estates, promising them
protection. They do so. Eight hundred land at
Cape Francois. The Spanish troops, and insur-
gent allies, march into the town under friend
! ly mask. The planters are deluded. High mas
is celebrated. There are worshippers. low
| whistler is heard, and, in an instant, the murder
GUS knives are sheathed tn the hearts Of the un
| suspecting planters: Who laid this internal
plotl The villain Spanish priest, Jasqrez.
Who executed it! Spani0rds leading on the IN
surgents. Yet this horror is sscribed to Eman
cipation!
The Island seemed now God-forsakeD. Ans
tocrats treacherously butehered patriots, pat
nots guillotined aristocrats, &c: Even con-
spiracies were detected proposing to destroy 81
the English at one blow by those planters who
had invited them there.
| The French nov were reduced TO Port de PAX
But the treaty of Basic, 1873, gave them peace
and the whole Islsnd-with the Spanish post
At this moment, ToUssAIST L'OUvERrURE join
the commissioners, puts himself at the head Of tn
insurgent blacks, fights the English, and in l7s'
they evacuate the Island.
SanlhOnd1, having returned from France, an,
before this event, hastily attempts TO reduce th'
power of ..Rigard, mulatto of daring and skill
who had held the English at bay in the South
An instruction followed. This occurred Aug
l2sth, 1896, at Aux Cages. II Is another ST. Do
mingo horror But il ceased the moment Saniho
mars delegates Withdrew.
May S, 1892. T5Hssaint was declared Gener
al-in,chief of the colony. He was omnipoten
with the blacks. They went to work, feuds di,
appeared. order nIled under his wise measures
The whites were protected, commerce began I
flourish, and the arts Of peace were taking roo
The Directory became Jealous. They ser
agents TO watch him, ard deprive him Of otfic,
he baiied them. lie lived for liberty, the libert
of his race. st. Domingo might be dependeI
cy of France, but all must be free.
Bonaparte, relieved by the treaty of Amiep:
sent Gen. la Cierc, with %, 900, veterans Qhe
arrived January, 1927 10 restore the old order
Al first the French had partial success. tn,
black chiefs were deceived and divided. T5u,
saint entTapped and sent to France, doomed to In
ger out the rest Of his days in pusonl But III
negroes soon saw the real designs of the Frenc
rallied, resortei to guerrilla warfare, and helpe
by disease, the French evacuated the Island psi
Nov. 1903. II twas now left under the control ,
the blacks. And this control was forced upo
them, that i, from the FIRST they were driven I
take step by step in the drama which led TO the
freedom, and the independence OF ST. Doming
Such are the leading points. Our two pGopos
tons says the Era, are sustained:
"l. Emancipation was not, in any sense, n
cause OF the troubles and instructions IN 5
Domingo.
''2. The history OF that doomed Colony fu
nishes conclusive evidence IN proof of the safe
= of Immediate Emancipation, as it is called.
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