New-York daily tribune., 1861-05-27

recovered
| 5OOl This splendid aave-hnntng, this sublime
'soundnese the goose, however did lot satiSiy al
the white PLANTERS. Some of them were 20 turbulent
that the Civil Commissioners were obliged 10 put them
on board tie feet along with the corrupted troops thar
bad helped murder Col. Manduit, 70 be sent 70
France. Just at this crisis the malcontents were
reoiced at the arrival Of Gen. GauiDaud from
France planter Of the colony, OF the P0"po" rouge
party who lad got himself appointed governor in '"e
pace of Blauebelan6e II was falsely supposed thai
hs power was superior to that OF tne Uouin"','O'
But the latter coon obliged him to confess that he hao
obtained his Office in cOntravention OF III" 'uA'
bsde any man to be governor who owned al eS'ae III
the colony, BY cOncealDg the fact lie, 100, DO 'e'
to the feet to he conveyed 10 France But WINE .ne
feet was lying in the harbor quarrel occufred De'
tween q white naval officer and a iniiatto Oh '"'
quay. The officer called the commissioners 10 pun
| ish the mnlatto who refused TO do II without i"r
hearing Of the case. This seized upon by Gaoaa
and the gentlemen ard lady planters on Doard tne
feet, the Of rousing the sailors ara sooiers
board 70 vengeance, and Galbauds brother at 'ne
head Of two three thousand armed men, hhdeu @iu
attacked the Commissioners in the government palace
Their whole available force for defense, including
regulars, mulatoes and few free blacks, scarcely
Amounted TO five hundred. These defended them
braveiy through tire fret day. and drove the sailors
back the ships but achieved little hope for the GER
tain contest of the next Day. The brais OF the two
lawyers, under the awful pressure OF circumstances
which they could no longer CONTROL during that neht
produced q dispatch circular TO the revoted negro
cbies then lowering IN the vicinity, In vhch we See
the rst CLEAN Of good that appear in their con-
duet. They began with these remarkable words;
We declare that is the will of the French Repub-
lie and that Of its delegates, to give liberty to all The
negro warriors who VIII fight for the Republic, under
the orders Of the civil commissioners, &C. They pro-
ceeced TO promise The alienation Of slavery, ana maj
! emancipation TO other slaves who would continue TO
work and behave well, and added, " All the slaves
who shall be declared free by the delegates, shall be
the equals of the white men, and those of all other
coors They shall enjoy AL the rights per- aiming to
! French citizens
Having dispatched this call for aid, the Commission
ers awaited the attack, which wss resumed with still
greater force under Galbaud in person, al daybreak
BY IL O'Clock the Commissioners were obliged to retire
to stronghold in TIE suburbs, and Galbaud renamed
master Of the palace. Toe thousands Of sailors not
contert with this victory commenced plnndering the
city. Tie wine-vanlts falling first in their way put
them in condition 1T for havoc aud the piiage was
soon turned into iDdiscrminate slaughter There
WIS soon added this horrible fact which illustrates
the wsdom Of the costly operations for reducing the
revoted saves. The prisons were opened, and the
hundreds of captives r,addened by sense OF wrong
were le, loose on the Who did II no one knew;
some attributed il the city slaves and some to the
Commissioner who in their report denied 1t. The
released prisoners joined the sailors in their bloody
work, US did many Of the city slaves Others nooly
TO save the families OF their masters The
negro chiefs who had been, ss we have seen, invited
in under the direction Of the Commissioners and tho
mulaito officers drove of the sailors and plunderng
blacks. rescued many white citizens, and aided In
saving large amount Of property. Gsiosud and
many Of the white planters escaped to the neet not
few being drowned in their haste TO embark. large
mar, OF prhsps the richest city Of s rze in the world
was laid in ashes Lacrox says the days work cool
hnnded million Of francs.
II very sharp corner which the representatives
of the erandes, power in Europe turned on that occa
,ion few weeks before they had been chasing fng-
tive slaves with their army scattered for that purpose
In Al. ousr,ers and cutting of the ears, and branding
III. left shoulders Of all they could CATCH with ,e
letter N. (marron), as Q peace Offering 20 propile
the sayeboders now they slc reporting tc their gov.
srnuent that the new citizens l.ae slsves) have
showed an unheard-of courage pld ntrepidiy in the
midrt Of murder, carnage, End fire, they gave their
ancient tyrants an erSmpe Of humanity, Of phlan-
thropy. While ore part OF these men was fighting the
s.rs the othcr was occupied in patroling The strees
gathering the frightened whites and conveying them,
protected from nsults into the camp OF the civil COM
mis-oner where we furnished them lodgings and pro-
yisions" This war the compliment they were obliged
20 nav 10 the revoted black slaves wboa their request
saved their lives from the very slave masters whoee
humble hounds they had made themselves. Bryan
Edwards says they invited in these revolted negro
chiefs by promising them their Liberty and the punder
OFT the cfy Unfortunately for that assertion we have
the PROCLAMATION on which they came, which promises
nothing but liberty and citizenship and the testimony
of both white and mustto shareholders that their con-
duct was most exemplary.
After bis remarkable repuse, Galbaud, with large
part of the Heet sailed for the United States carrying
VITA hin, great number Of white planters who had
been the greatest pests OF the colony. The commits
soners had dispersed and nearly used up their army in
the work of putting down anti-reyoiutionary white
cabas on one side and negro revos on the other They
were threatened with invasion from the Spanish psr'
of the isand and from England. On the 10Th OF July
1893. they wrote 10 the national assembly, giving
report Of the above events at the Cape. Such,
citizen representatives, is the disastrous position in
which abaud has left in the province of the North
Without navy, without money, without the means OF
procuring any, and with provisions for only one month,
vet We do not despair Of the safety Of the country We
are going on we do not ask Of you ships nor sailors;
/, ID with the natiUe' Of the country, that is, the ATr-
cans tat we shall to France the property OF st.
Domingo"
Thus had it been beaten into their polite heads that
| N L...a- u.a canld be made of the half million black