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

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of rice in it shook them up, and said "See.
there is the white-there is the black; what
are you afraid of I" So when people came to
him in great numbers for Office, as it is repor-
ted they do sometimes even in Washington,
he learned the first words of Catholic
prayer in Latin. and repeating it, would say;
"Do you understand that T. mo. sir"
"What want an Office. and not know Latin |!
Go home and learn it,
Then again, like Napoleon-like genius
always-hs had confidence in his power to
rule men. You remember when Bouaparte re-.
turned from Elba, and Louis XVIII sent an
army against him, Bonapart dedsended from
his carriage, opened his coat. saying, I" French
men, it is the Emperor" and they ranged
themselves behind him. his soldirrs, shouting
Wire TEmpeye9r !" That was in 1915.
Twelve years before, Toussaint, finding that
two of his regiments had deserted and gone
to L-clere, drew his sword, flung it on the
grass, went across the field to them, folded
his arms and said, Children. can you point
bayonet at me- 7" and the blacks fell on
their knees, praying his pardon. His bitter.
est watched him, and none of them charged
him with love of money, sensuality, or cruil
use Of power. The only instance in which
his sternest critic has charged him with Sc
verify is this: During tumult, few
white proprietors who had returned. trusting
his proclamation. were killed. His nephew,
General Noise, was accused of indecision in
quelling the riot. He assembled a court.
martial and on it's verdict ordered his own
nephew to be shot; sternly Roman in thus
keeping his promise of protection to the
whites. Above the lust of gold, pure in pri.
vate life, generous in the use of his power, it
was against such man that Napoleon sent
his army, giving to Gen. Leclsrc the husband
of his beautiful sister Pauline, thirty thousand
of his best troops, with orders to reintroduce
slavery Among these soldiers came all Of
Toussaint's old mullatto rivals and foes.
Holland lent sixty ships, England promised
by special message to be neutral; and you
know neutrality means sneering at freedom,
and sending arms to tyrants. England prom4
ised neutrality. and the black looked out on
the whole civilized world marshaled against
him. America, full of slaves, of course was
hostile Only the Yankee sold him poor
muskets at a very high price. Mounting his
horse. and riding to the eastern end Of the
island, Samana, be looked out on sight such
as no native had ever seen before. Sixty
ships of the line, crowded by the best soldiers
of Europe. rounded the point. They were
soldiers who had never yet met an equal,
whose tread had shaken Europe more than
any foot had done since the C@sars-soldiers
who had scaled the Pyramids, and planted
the French banner on the walls of Rome.
He looked moment, counted the fotilla, let
the reins fall on the neck of his horse, and,
. turning to Christophe said: "All France is
come to Hayti; they can only come to make
us slaves all is lost" And he then recog.
nized the old mistake of his life-his conf.
dence in Bonaparte, which had led him to
disband his army. s.t-,
Returning, he issued the only proctama:
nation that bears his name and breaths ven.
gence: my children. France comes to
make us slaves. God gave lis liberty; France
has no right to take it away. Burn the
cities, destroy the harvests, tear up the roads
with cannon, poison the wells, show the white
man the bell ha comes to make )" and hs
was obeyed. When the great William Of
Orange saw Louis XIV. cover Holland with
troops he said, Break down the dykes. give
Holland back to ocean;" and Europe said.
Sublime When Alexander saw the
armies of France decend upon Russia, lie.
said, Burn Moscow, starve back the inta.
des;" and Europe said, "Sntlme!' This
black saw all Europc marshaled to crush him,
and gave to his people the same heroic sx-
ample of despair.
1t ia true, the scene grows bloodier a. va
proceede But remember, the white man ftly
accompanied his infamous attempts tn redxty
ffeemea to slacery with every bloody and cru.
FL device that bitter and shameless hate could
invent. Aristocracy is always cruel. The
black man met the attempt, ~ every euch
attempt should be met, with war TO the hilt
In his first struggle to gain his freedom. hs
had been generous aud mercifnl, saved lives
and pardoned enemies, as the people in every
age aud cline have always done when rising
against aristocrats. Now. to save his liberty.
the negro exhausted every neans, seized eve
ry weapon. and turned back the hateful inva-
ders with vengence as terrible "a their own,
tho. gh even now he refused to be cruel.
L~clerc sent word to Christophe that he
was about to land at Cape City. Christopbe
said, i" Toussaint is Governor Of the Island.
will send to him for permission. If without
It French soldier ssis foot on shore. I will
burn the town. and fight over it's ashes"
L-clerc landed. Christophs took 1000
vAae men, women and chilsrsn. carried them
to the mountains in safety. and then with bic
own hands set fire to the splendid palace
which French architects had finished Tor him.
and in forty hours the city was in ashes. The
battle was fought in its streets, and The.
French were driven back to their boats.
Wherever they went. they, were met with
fire and sword. Once, resisting an attack.
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