Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1863-03-21

acteu, II nat Tue peopIe OF coIor resIulpg
in the French colonies, born Of free pa
rents, are entitled to, as of right, and
should be allowed the enjoyment Of, all
the privileges of French citizens, and,
among others, to those Of having votes in
the choice of representatives, and Of being
ekgi6le to seats both in Me Parochiai and
Coionim ASSembies'
CONSEQUENCES IN ST. DOMINGO OF THE
DECREE OF THE 18TH OF MAY.
am now to enter on the retrospect Of
scenes the horrors of which Imagination
cannot adequately conceive nor pen de-
scribe. The disrute and contests between
different classes OF French citizens, and
the violences of indignant factions, claim
no longer attention. Such picture of
human misery, such a scene of woe, pre-
scnts itself, as no other country, no form
er age, has exhibited. Upwards OF one
hundred thousand savage people, habitua-
ted 10 the barbarities of Africa, avail
themselves of the silence and obscurity OF
the night, and fall on the peaceful and
unsuspicious planters, like so many fam
ished tigers, thirsting for human blood
Revolt, conAagr alton, and massacre ev-
erywhere mark their progress and death, 4,
in all its horrors, or cruelties, compared
10 which immediate death is mercy, await
alike the old and the young, the matron,
the virgin, and the helpless infant. No
condition, age or sex is spared. All the
shocking and shameful enormities with
which the fierce and unbridled passions Of
man have ever conducted war, prevailed
uncontrolled. The rage of fire consumes
what the sword is unable to destroy, and
in few dismal hours the most fertile and
beautiful plains in the world are convert
ed into one vast field of carnage-a will
dcrncss of desolatiou
FIRST REBELLION OF THE NEGRO SLAVES.
; The decree of the 18th Of May was the
brand by which the flames were lighted
, and the combustbles that were prepared
set in action Intelligence having been
received of it at Cape Francois on the
3Oth of June, no words can describe the
rage and Indignation which Immediately
, spread throughout the colony. The in
habitants now unanimously determined to
reject the civic oath, although great prep
arations had been made for general fed
: GRAFTON OIL the 4th of July. The news
, of this decree seemed to unite the mos,
S discordant elements. Tkc national cock
e ade was everywhere trodden under foot
e and the Governor General, who contin
= ucd sorrowful and silent spectator O
= these excesses, found his authority ami
hilated in a mhTent.
THE "IRREPREssIBLE CoNTL1cT' DOC
j. TRINE CARRIED OUT.
Justly alarmed at all these proceedings
: SO hostile towards their pretended rights
+ and probably apprehensive of genera
Il prescription, the mulattoes throughout tn
G colony began to collect in different lace
u in armed bodies; and the whites, by
mournlul fatality, suffered them to assem-
IT Bile without molestation, 1t is natural tha
. the enslaved negroes could not possibly b
0 unobservan. of these combined and con
> Cured circumstances. They beheld th
colored people in open hostility 10 tn
:. whites, They were assured that the for
:, mer had the fullest support and encour
- agerent from the supreme Legislature {
n the mother country. They were taugt
~ to believe that they also had become oh
= jccts of the raternal solicitudc of th
: King and National Assembly, who wishe
. to rescue them from the dominion Of thei
masters, and invest them with their ei
tates.
10 THE MASSACRE COMMENCED.
1t was on the morning of the 23d
D August, 1901 just before day, that gel
o. eral alarm and CONSERVATION sprea
hit throughout the town OF the Cape. I'll
us inhabitants were called from their Bee
of by persons who reported that all the II,
h, gro slaves in the several neighborpg pa
IS ishes had revoltcd, and were at that III
as ment carrying death and desolation ov,
O. the adjoining large and beautiful plain
- the northeast. The Governor and mo
vs. of the military officers on duty assemble
at together, but the reports were so confuse
On and contradictory as to gain but lit
ch credit. AS daylight began to break, Il
n sudden arrival, with ghastly countenance
y" Of persons who had with difficulty C
CO capped the massacre, and flown to Il
tV foun for profaofion N