Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1863-08-15

and finally these also deserted him, and he
was left alone. He then sent word to LIE.
clprc. /" will submit. l could continue thu
struggle for years-could prevent single
Frenchman from safely quitting your camp
BIT hate bloodshed. have fought only
for the liberty ofmy race. Guarantees that
/ will submit, and come in" He took the
oa,l, to be a faithful citizen and on the
same cruciix Leclerc swore that he should be
faithfully protected, and that the Island should
be free. As the French General glanced
along the line of his splendidly equipped
troops and saw, opposite, Toussaint's ragged
alarmed followers, lie said to him, "L'Ou.
venture, had you continued the war, where
could YOU have got arms r Il would have
taken yours" (Chpers.) He went down to
his house in peace; it was summer. Leclerc
remembered that the fever months were com
ing, when his army would be in hospitals,
aud when one motion of that royal hand
would sweep his troops into the sea. He was
too dangerous to b. left at large. So they
summoned him to attend council; and here
is the only charge made against him, the
only charge. They say he was fool enough
to 20. Grant it; what was the record The
white man lies shrewdly to cheat the negro.
Knight errautry was truth. The foulcst i'll
suit YOU can offer man since the Crusades
is, You lie. Of Toussaint, Hermona, the
Spanish General, who knew him well, said
"He was the purcst soul that God ever put
into body" Of him history says, He
never broke his word" Maitland was travel
ing in the depths Of the woods to meet Tous-
saint, wh'n he was met by messenger, and
told that he was betrayed. He went on, and
met Toussaint. Toussaint showed him two
letters-one from the French General, offering
. him any rank if he would put Maitland in his
power, and the other his reply 1t was :
"Sir have promised the Englishmen that
he shall go back" (Cheers.) Let it stand,
therefore, that the negro, truthful as knight
of old. was cheated by his lying foe. Which
race has reason to be proud Of such record
But he was not cheated. lie was under es-
pionage. Suppose he had refused the gov
eminent would have doubted him-would
have found some Gauss to arrest him. He
probably had reasoned thus: If / go willing
ly, I shall be treated accordingly: and he
went The moment he entered the room. the
officers drew their swords, and told him he
was prisoner; and one young lieutenant who
was present says, 4" He was not at all sur
prised, but seemed very sad" They put
him on shipboard, and weighed anchor for
France. As the island faded from his sight,
He turned TO the captain, and said, "You think
YOU have rooted up the tree of liberty, but
am only a branch; have planted the tree
so deep, that all France can never root it up. y
(Cheers.) Arrived in Paris, he was flung into
Jail, and Napoleon sent his Secretary. Caffa-
relli. 10 him, supposing he had buried large
treasures. He listened awhile, then replied,
at is true l have lost treasures, but they
are not such as you come to seek" Then he
sent him to the Castle of st. Joux, to dun
geon twelve feet by twenty, built wholly of
rtone, with narrow window high up on the
SHOWS af Switzerland. In winter, ice covers
the floor; in summer, it is deep with water.
In this living tomb tie child of the sunny
tropic was left to die. From this dungeon
he wrote two letters to Napoleon. One of
them ran thus -
"Sire, l am French citizen. / never
broke law. by the grace of God. 1 have
saved for you the best island of your realm.
Sire. Of your mercy grant me justice"
Napoleon never answered the letters. The
commandant allowed him five francs a day
for food and fuel. Napoleon heard of it, and
reduced the sum to three The luxurious
usurper, who complained that tho English
Government was stingy because it allowed
him only $4,000 month, stopped from his
throne to cut down dollar to a half, and still
Tousaint did not die quick enough.
This dungeon was n tomb. The story
told of it is, that in Josephine's time. young
French Marquis was placed in it, and the
gift to whom he was betrothed went to the
Empress, and prayed for his release. Said
Josephine to her, have model of it made,
and bring it to me" Josephine placed it
near Napoleon. He said, Take it await
is horrible! She put it on his footstool, and
he kicked it from him. She held it to him
the third time, and said, Sire, in this hor.
rible dungeon you have put man to die"
"Take him out" said Napoleon, and the girl
saved her lover. In this tomb Toussaint was
placed, but he did not die fast enough. Fl.
naly, the commandant was told to 90 ia
Switzerland, to carry the keys Of the dun
geon with him, and to stay four days. when
he returned, Toussaint was found starved ia
death. That imperial assassin was taken
twelve years after to his tomb at St. Helena
by that same Maitland whom Toussanint had
conquered, and there he wlined away his
dying hours in pitiful complaints Of curtains
and titles, of dishes ana rides. God grant tina,
when some future Plutarch shall weigh tn,
great men of our epoch, the whites against
She blacks, he do not put that whining
child at St. Helena into one scale, and into
the other the negro meeting death like q
Roman without a murmur, in the solitude oil
his icy dungeon!
From the moment he was betrayed, the
negroes began to doubt the French, and rushed
to arms. Soon every negro but Maurrpas