Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-10-02
LITERARY HONORS CARRIED OFF BY A
HAYTIEN

Dr. Rock, writing to Frederick Douglass Psper,
from Paris, gives an account of the literary IT,
umph of young student in that city.
Once u year there is what is called IL concours-
which is a union of all the colleges in the Empire
at the SOrbornc, in this cty-at this meeting the
prizes are distributed.
Now ! believe that it is an admitted iaet 'aii
ever the Uh,onp that black man don't know
beans"that there is no use to attempt to cultivate
him-that his skull is too thick" and if 10y acci.
dent negro should get two ideas in his brain, not
withstanding the thickness of his skull-there
would not be room enough for them and as a nat
ural consequence it would bust.
Last week this concours was held, and strange to
say MN. Faubert, young man of color, IRON
lIayti, obtained the highest prize-ths prtze q
Honor. On the reception OF this news the Empe-
ror Immediately sent him one hundred and fifty
handsomely bound volumes. a company OF MAJ
tional Guards were dispatched to wait upon HIM
with band Of music. and he was invited and dld
dine with the Minister Of Public Instruction, hay'
ing the honor Of occupying a place between his
lady and Prince Napoleon.
Besides this young man-two other young nay
items also took prizes. In country ike this,
where the course Of study ia severe and where
honor is everything, and the contest for IT very
great, It Is certainly Ureditable 10 the Hayuens,
and they have done honor to their race They
have competed successfully with the most cultiyat-
ed race on the face of the earth. Those Americans
who arc always talking about the despotism OF
France ought to close their mouths in eternal 81
lence. There is not University in America, not
even in good old NJ Massachusetts" where they
dare to give the black man what is due to him.
, speak from experience, when l, citizen OF Massa
chusetts, was outraged and insul,ed by the Fedora
Government, and passport denied me because
J was ooiored man, though Congress was IN ses
sion at the time, and our entire massachusetts de-
e egaion there, some of whom, l, with man.
others Of my own race worked bard to elect-no
, one of whom, with all their Anti Slavery preten
, sions dared to open bis mouth to speak OF it-muei
less to protest against it. This | think shoulc
teach US lesson at the polls 'lnasmuch as
they have done it to one of the least they have
done it unto all"
But 20 the successful IIaytiens. Last Wednes
day evening there was n banquet given in honor OF
their success. As | was not able to be there only
in spirit will translate for the benefit of your
readers, what La ireSSe says OF it. Last evening
n banquet was given by the lIaytien residents OF
Paris in honor of NM. Faubert. Delva and Dupuy
young gentlemen from uayti who have obtained
the prizes at S0rbonne. Among the invited guests
were NM. Durand and Girard, professors in the
college in which NM. Fuubert (who received the
First Grand Prize-the prize Of Honor was stu
Ipent, and M. Boitel, professor in the college IN
which Delva (who received the first prize in Creek
was also student. NJ Girard is himself q man
Of color and has been one Of the most brilliant
laureats in the Univerrity-having succcssively
obtained the two prizes of Honor in Rethoric and
Logic.
10 this cordial reunion all the Iaytiens were
deeply affected, which sympathy also extended to
the two French professors, who have contributed
so much to the success of the young laureats.-
NM. Audain, a colored young man, and Doctor OF
, Medicine, pronounced discourse remarkable for
the elevation of its IDEAS and ardent patriotism -
Is it not remarkable that Of the three Hayti-
ems who competed for the prizes at the
. Sorborne-they have obtained all of the
three prizes without calculating on successs
, in their respective colleges2 Is 1t not bril-
liant proof of the benefits of education and does
it not demonstrate still more that in the field o
, emulation the intelligence Of men of color car
sometimes contest successfully with race which
aims to show its incontestible superiority by un
oeasingly opposing them ?" We will take courage
t "There is a better day coming" "Let as all Wori
10 hasten IT,"
| ROCK