The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-01-06

were committed arc not attributable TO the leader but TO
the tubodnaes, who stopped at nothing TO glia ther
ends, and sionced opposition by the refined cruelty
ln Aueust ~, revolt surprising ia us accompany
ing horrors all that had preceded It, burst forth tue
northern part OF the island. II commenced by At
tempt to murder an overseer, which frustrated by
the daring Of the Intended victim, and great the
effect OF the mans ntropidy that he ant friends kept
five hundred negroes at bay. Two days after a VIDE
spread Instruction broke out the country wrapped in
flames every white person without dstinct1l OF sex
or age, bTutay massscfed Prisoners taken ia bat
tie were put 70 death with such st1dsd 1rtes as can
not be named without thrill horror They tore them
with red hot pincers-s9wed them asunier botweDn
pianks--rolsled them by a slow Ere, or tore out
their eyes With red Lot cork screws" Il was
said that within the space OF Uonths more than two
thousand whites bad fallen nslerecton one
hundred and eighty sugar plantations apt uiae hundred
plantations OF coffee cotton and indigo had laid waste
aud her mls aud houses laid Ia ashes twelve hundred
Mnss were reduced 10 poverty anf forced 70 abandon
their homes The Colonial Assembly, ai.ri3uting these
troubles TO the legislation of the French Assembly deter
mined not to apply 70 another country for succor but
SOLICITED ala nom the English authorities jamaica
which was generously Afforded, though they themselves
were IA daily dread OF the like horrors occurring At home
The National Assembly prrs stcd ruuous eslsanon
guotned the Governor, Bluclelaule opposing their
destructive policy, placed negroes ana ooored men on
pohcai equality With The ohge population destroyed
that magnificent colony.
About this time the famous Toussant Louverture first
tram Of the notorious Jean Francois, a name
Synonymous with the most ferocious cruelty
iousssint was shrewd, wary and impenetrable,
distinguished for pety, medical skill, military genius
and insight into the workings of the human heart
While Toussain was powerful IN the north Of the island
the south In revolt under leadership OF the mu
lao Rgaud, whose tfocites exceeded beh.f more thai
Two hundred people having faleu victims the fury OF
his band Of mixed mnlaos and negroes during course
OF one night Nothing could exceed the enmi,y bewe N
these rival leaders tbs nendke cruoues OF thor
bands. "No one saws an intelligent writer "can follow
The details OF this without being thrilled hor.
Tor at IDS atrocities Ingenuity taxed s utmost
furnish forth seventies of torture and tbs very
OF hs vanqusher often employed 70 tear the flesh
from the wretched victim OF bis fegociyn The maunor
IN which Toussaipt succeeded in crushing his Formidable
rival The revolving crnetes perpeCted Dy the
Dess2Des 10 his way 20 empire, and the outbreaks that
were constantly occurring among the negro aud mulao
population whose hatred for each other exceeded that
they bore the whites, scarcely under the heal of
negro instructions though we may say l1cy mark
ed by all The revolving features peculiar 20 these out
breaks. TINS beautiful but faied, island v Is Mt last
given up 10 negro rur, and the revolutions under.
gone since that bee well known 10 REQUIRE any
more han an aluson to them. particularly as they DO
not come within the legitimate scope OF this article.