Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1859-07-16
ST. DOMINGO.

II al 4tn Oh July meeting at Framingbam, Mass.
a Mr.. Bird spoke at some length upon the condi-
ton of IlAyti; Wendell Phil ips, who followed
him, thus referred to the remarks of the proceed
iug speaker.
r Mr.. CHAIRMAN-I have listened with q great
deal OF interest, to the experience and testimony
of the friend who has just occupied this place in
regard to st. Domingo. l do not think that there
can be q more important chapter Of history to the
Abolidonist than that which relates to The indie
p~endence Of St. Domingo. We are accustomed to
let the pro-slavery press have its own way in re-
gard to the history of that island, whereas it is the
very Lest and clearest and most unexceptionable
chapter in the history Of the black race-perfect
MS poetry. There is not o single fact nor incident
which tie lover of the negro would care to erase
from the record. I want to dwell upon i. q single
moment. People imagine that, at the time OF
what are called the horrors of St. Dominco'-the
original revolt-the slaves rose, in blood and fire,
with nothing but revenge in their hearts; down.
trodden like the worm, they rose tigers, to battle
their hands in the blood of their masters: where
as, the whole story of the nsurrection, at it's COM
mencement, is the finest chapter in the history of
the race. The slaves never thought of resistance.
Docile, kind-hearted, trodden in the earth, driven
almost to despair, they let the contest between the
white and the mulat.o 60 on in the upper air, un-
til men imagined they had become Indifferent to
liberty that they were besotted; that they lacked
the intelligent courage of the white race, and ap-
probation of liberty. Oh, mol This continued
Just long enough to show the sweetness of their
blood, the absence of revenge, the absence Of ma
Lightly and then, at the first fitting moment, it
! vanisliod II roo tbns, Tho ,1,ro. -.
said, never thought of rising. The royal party in
France, anxious to get q foothOld in the island,
when the kings head had been taken off in Paris.
sent their agent to create a revolution in favor of
the king, and finding oil others silent or ipdifer.
ent sent their emissaries among the slaves.
Charles the Tenth-then the Count d Artois-sent
his. The Royal Governor, Blanchelande, sent bis.
Royalists among the planters went in person.
The slaves listened to the political motive. They
loved the King. Every link that had been lifted
from tho heavy chain of slavery on their necks,
had been lifted by a Bourbon. They we're CRATE.
7 i yld for the bis. sq n end they rushed to
1.-THE field In the name dof III, King when thew
'fstood tbsrs % arms, nen-4Feepepixed,a such by
the intrigues Of psrties-then, for the frs. time,
Toussaint, concealed behind the scenes, said TO
NV "'SPuHVFoj Oeutitmtu, we are mere In YOUR
t behalf. We seemed %besotted, but we knew our
rights. We will stand for the throne to-day. bu,
only on condition that you stand for liberty to.
morrow, and that you give us the pledge Wher
victory perched upon the royal banners, they for
b got the pledge. But the black man never forgo
r it he took up both parties. one in the right, tn
n other IN he left hand of his physical supremacy
e and dashed them to pieces, shouting Liberty ON,
e Manhood as the motto Of the new order of things
and from that hour to this, he has held the islam,
as his own. / assert that in the whole history @
civil life, there is not q more skilful, drawer, NOR
b%loodless, nor more successful effort, on the part Q
70 an uneducated, unarmed populace to take the gov
d eminent by the throat, strangle it, and place them
selves at the head of affairs. That was sevent
years ago. The revolution was b~loodless. TIL
d slave said, i take my own; 60 your wayp II
.s never took life nor blood. Deserving Of memory
d When Napoleon tried to put the yoke upon hi
neck a second time when the lion, in his 'prid
of place. upon the throne Of the island, met th
French eagle, then, indeed, fighting with the enc
gy ct despair, and on the forlorn hope, the blac
10 man showed the courage of the Roman or til
Greek, and utterly annihilated the sixty thousan
is French soldiers that Napoleon sent against him
e. (Applause.) That was the first discourage.
The second test of blood is the capacity to 20
IL ern a State. My friend (Mr. Bird) alluded
W schools and churches and morality-all exoellel
10 tests; but the great les. of races, the great gener,
m test of blood, is the capacity to govern and mai,
o, tain q State. Now, Mexico has tumbled over an
over and over a dozen lines in seventy year
Brazil, Chill, Peru, Guatemala, all the Spani,
colonies. are but tumblers--everlastingly turnir
%summersets History has not pens enough to =
cord the names Of their Governors. To write Il
u History of the Spanish colonies would take Iigh
ming. (Laughter.) 1t is like the story of the ma
ia West B~ridgwater who said that another man
wife lied. The husband Of the woman came
him. and said, You say my wife does no. tell ii
a truth l want you to take it back Now sal
the other. tell me, doesn't your wife talk taste
n than lightning {" Yes but what has that to d
with itP We'll, l maintain there is not trut
enough in the world for her to speak it all II
IN time, fast as she talks loud laughter and a,
plause.) So. in regard to the history Of the Spa
Is ish colonies, you must have a historian as ias.
that woman's tongue to keep up with their cha
ar ges. But they are Of Spanish blood the proudet
" and, 10 some senses, the most noble in the worlt
1t but they are not capable Of government. He
% are these uneducated negroes; with no sympatl
is from Europe. with no dollar Of capital, their 81
is burned over-as if Massachusetts were float
SO back to where the Puritans found it in 1630--th
e, have put their feet on the untrodden and uni
n deemed soil of HaYti, and said to the world, 'Th
th is ours'-and held their own for seventy years.
that does not prove capacity for sslfgovernmer
sh the highest test of the capacity Of q g race. Their
or do not know where il is to be found. wanted
SO say 50 much, because I count ST. Domingo q We
It's jewel Of anti-slavery testimony and evidence.
I'D do not care what Mr.. Redpath finds there 10
,e- gard to morals and education. I know that 1
sb black man has conquered that island, and has be
ne it against all races aud oil arms that is spou,
ts for me to prove bic capacity.