Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-08-11
JOHN BROWN, JR. AND THE RAYrIANs
LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT OF uAYrI.

LETTER TO TIE PRESIDENT OF HAYTI,
We have received the Monitear Haitien, Of July
9TH, containing the follow ing letter, translated in
French by NJ. Dc poUUET, Secretary of The Police
Of Hayti. In re-translating into English, we may
not hit the exact language Of the original, as writ
ten by Mr.. Browt;-
To His Excellenoy, General FABRE GERHARD.
President Of the Republic of Hayti.
Words full Of consolation have come to me and
those who in this country cherish liberty, equality
and fraternity. They inform us that the good
people Of youi Republic have given a unanimous
manifestation of their grief on the occasion of the
execution Of my lamented father, Captain John
Brown and his companions in arms.
Allow me in behalf Of the members of nv
family, WHO are not yet fallen victims beneath the
iron rod Of the Shareholders in America, to say to
you, and through you to all the good |IIaytian5 that
we entertain for you q most cordial sympathy
Although your country is far from ours, and though
we speak different languages, we nevertheless feel
that hearts can NEE. notwithstanding intervening
distances; we remembe that God has formed Of
one blood all the inhabitants of the earth.
'Ilay,ians, brothers and sisters, here, in this
land OF slaves, the warmest friends of your race
are watching yea to observe how you re!ute the
defarn alton that the African is incapable of self.
government You have given proof of your ability
as soldiers. Without other assistance than that
you found in your own energy and valor, you have
thrown off and broken the yoke of the tyrant, and
obliged him to seek refuge on the ocean. Your
enemies themselves call you brave; your friends
know that you are humane and magnanimous.=
The entire world to-day beholIs in you the sublime
: spectacle Of a people who, knowing the value Of
the liberty they have conquered, have arrived at
that stage Of progress which permits them to
extend a generous sympathy to their oppressed
brethren in q foreign land.
In this you have proven that spirit Of progress
which is the omen of your future grandeur and
the guaranty Of the Accomplishment of our most
brilliant hopes-the reign of universal emancipa-
ton.
We have heard how a slave-power seized one OF
your most noble champions (ToUGssANr LOVER
TuRE) and cast him into a cold, damp dungeon,
where he died of hunger. In our country, fnes,
i'm prisonmeut, hot iron, or the gibbet is the por-
ton of those who will not PROSTATE themselves
before the Moloch Of slavery. Nevertheless, in
etle U III lHeee CudelSemeDtPj We are not dis
couraged.
The mutilated body can disappear, but the soul
survives it.
so it is then only TIE body Of Touissaint Lou,
venture which sleeps in the tomb his soul visits
the cabins Of the slaves of the South when night
is spread over the face Of nuture. Tie ears OF
our American slaves hear his voice in the wind
gusts which sweep over the prniries If Texas, OF
Arkansas and Missouri; his voice finds all echo in
the immense valleys Of Florida, among the pines
Of the Carolinas, in the Dismal Swamp aud upon
The mountain tops, pr~oclaimiEg that the despots Of
America shall ct know the strength of the toll.
er's arm, aud that he who would be free must him
self strike the irst blow.
Long live FADRE GErFRARD. Long live the Re
public.
Such is the aspiration of the sincere friend Of
both. JOHN BROWN Jr.
Jefferson, Ashtobula county, Ohio, 10th April,
1862