The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-02-03

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future safety and tranquility Of Europe.
WENDELL PHILLIPS AND Hrs GODs.--In his
lecture on Tonsssint L'Ouverture, of st. Do
mingo, delivered at the Cooper Institute, and
published on Wednesday in this journal, Wen
cell Phillips, whe had previously canonized
the cutthroat and horsethief john Brown. a
white man, exalting him above Washington
and every other historical hero in the world
sets up as superior even to him another god. a
black deity, for the idolatrous worship Of the
republican party. He compares with him
Cromwell, Napoleon l., Napoleon III, Alexan-
der Of Russia and Sir Robert Peel, and gives
him the palm as warrior and statesman above
them all. He says that Phocion of the Greeks,
Brutns of the Romans, Hampden of England,
Lafayette Of France, and Washington of Ame-
RIGA, may be regarded as the greatest historical
men Of those countries till John Brown arose;
but even be, white man as he is, is eclipsed by
the black, "whose name some future Tacitus,
dipping bis pen in the sunlight, will write high
on the clear blue above them ALT patriot,
soldier, statesman and martyr Toussaint
LOuyerture."
Could the force of fanaticism further 90?
No ore need wonder that the HERALD is called
an abolition paper by Phillips and the other
fanatics whose mental vision is so disordered
that they confoupd every distinction in politics.
in morals and religion. For instance, this
apostle Of abolition places on the same level
with the French patriot, Lafayette the bloody
demons incarnate, Danton and Robespierre;
and the whole drift and scope of his lecture
is to show the black race to be superior to the
earth. Now what did the black hero, with his
myrmidons, effect? Upon the showing of
Phillips himself, absolutely nothing that many
Indian savage chiefs have not accomplished for
time against the white man-brutal massacre
by superior numbers.
page OF history was the result Of emancipa
ton. The French revolutionists, in their wild
excess, set the negroes OF st. Domingo Free
Soon did France retrace her steps; but it was
too late--the ferocious passions of the black
race were let loose, and horrors took place
which have no parallel in the annals of man
kind. Those who want to read the fearful de-
tails may consult the English historian Allison
who ia no friend of the French nation. And
this tragedy, with all its accompanying atroci
ties, which Mr.. Phillips so conveniently giozes
over, is what the abolitionists hoped to see
acted again by John Brown in the Southern
States, and what they still desire to see per
formed under the auspices Of some other san
culinary leader.
But what did Toussaint, after poisoning the
wells out of which the white men were to
drink, and other barbarities too revolving to
describe, effect for himself or HE race
Nothing Phillips insists that this savage
chief, who was above the average intelligence
of his sable brethren, had no white blood in
his veins. How~does Phillips know? The man
was born slave in st. Domingo, under the
dominion of the French, and, for all thatany one
can tell, his father may have been white man.
But he achieved nothing. He soon found the
negroes would not work, and that Free
dom was unsuited to them. He recalled
their banished white masters, and sent all
the free black laborers back intothe planta-
tons to slavery. AS for himself, he was car
ried into exile, where he died. The final result
now is that the negroes of the island have
changed their humane white masters for cruel
black ones, and private servitudc for mill
tary despotism. Disorder, revolution and civi!
war are their normal condition: Next to Cuba
it Is the best and 6nest Of the West India
Islands. In the bands Of the French its exports
were great. In the hands of the black 60
vernment everything has fallen into decay.
Under the comparatively vigorous Boyer in
1922, the government may be regarded as ia
its most prosperous state since the era Of abe
lition. Let us compare the exports of that
period with those of the time when the blacks
had white masters
Produce. Year, 1901. Fear, 1872
Sugar, lbs... l63, 405 40 652 Sal
Coffee. 6S,l5l,lS0 35,1 ,s34
Cotton .................. 6,2S6, l20 sol, $50
Look on this picture and on that. After such
results, to worship. Toussaint as hero and
statesman superior to Washington is not more
rational than to worship the bull Of the ancient
Egyptians as deity superior to Christ.
THE BooTMAKERs OF NEW ESGIAND-WHERE
THE SHOE PNCHEs-- In sending out our Special
Renorters some weeks since to rive MS accurate