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


the only French army Oh tho island; it was
tie only force that had right to bear arms
and what it undertook it achieved. 1t put
Blancl,elande in his seat it put the island
beneath his rule When it was done, the
blacks said to the Governor they had created,
Now, grant us one day in seven; give us
one days labor; we will buy another, and
with the two buy a third the favorite
method of emancipation at that time. Like
the BlanchelaAde of FIVE years before, he re
fused. He said "Disarm! DISPERSED" and
the blacks answered, "The right arm that
has saved you, the right arm that has saved
the island for the Bourbons may percllance
clutch some of our own rights" and they
stood still. (Cheering.) This is the first
instruction, il any such there were. in St.
Domnso-the first determined purpose Oh
the part of the negro, having saved tho gov
ernlnent, to save himself
Now, let me stop moment to remind you
Of one thing. ! am going to open to you
chapter Of bloody history-no doubt Of it..
Who set the example? Who dug up from
its grave of hundred years the hideous
punishment of the wheel, and broke Oge,
every bone, living man! Who flared in
the face of indignant and astonishcd Europe
the forgotten barbarity Of quartering the yet
ralpitating body! Our race. And if the
black man learned the lesson but too well, it
does not lie in our lips to complain During
this whole struggle. written. mark you, ny
the white man--thc whole picture from the
pencil of the white race--the record is, that
for one life the negro took in battle, in hot
and bloody fight, the white race took, in the
cool malignity Of revenge, three to answer for
it. Notice, also, that up to this moment, the
slave he'd taken no part in the struggle. ex-
cept at the biding of the government; and
even then, not for himself but only to sustain
the laws.
At this moment, then, the island stands
thus: The Spaniard is on the east tri-
umphant; the Englishman is on the north.
west intrenclled the mulattors are in the
mountains waiting the blacks are in the
valleys victorious oue-half the French slave.
holding element is republican, the other half
royalist the white race against the mulatto
and the black; the black against them both |;
the Frenchman against the Englishman and
Spaniard the Spaniard against both 1t is
a war of races and war Of nations. At such
moment, Toussaint LOuverture appeared.
He had been born slave-as l said, an
unmixed black, his father stolen from Africa
ON plantation in the north of the island.
He was fifty years cid at this time. A kind
priest had taught him to read. His favorite
books were Epictetus, Raynal, Military Me.
moirs, Putarch. In the woods, he learned
some Of the qualities Of herbs, and was village
doctor On the estate, the highest place he
ever reached was that Of coachman. At fifty,
hejoined the army as physician. Before he
went, he placed his master and mistress on
shipbonrd, freighted tho vessel with cargo
of sugar and coffee, and sent them to Balti-
more, and never afterward did he forget to
send them, year by year, ample means of sup.
mort. And I might add that of all the lead
ING negro generals, each one saved the man
under whose roof he was born, and protected
the family. (Cheering)
Let me add another thing. If stood here
tonight to tell the story of Napoleon, should
ia lit from the lips of Freuchmen, who find
no language rich enough to paint the great
captain of the nineteenth century. Were |
here to tell you Of Washington, l should
take it from your hearts-you, who think no
marble white enough on which to carve the
name of the Father Of his Country. ZAP
plause) am about to tell you. the story Of
of negro who has left hardly one written
line. am to CLEAN it from the reluctant
testimony Of Englishmen, Spaniards, French.
men-men who despised him as n negro and
a slave, and hated him because he had beaten
them in many a battle All the materials
for his biography are from the lips Of his cne-
mics.
The second story told of him is this:-
About the time he reached the camp. the army
had been subjected to two insults. First Their
Commissioners, summoned to meet the French
Committee, were ANONYMOUSLY and insulting
Nv dismissed; and when, afterward, Francois
their General, was summoned to second
conference, and went to it on horseback, &C.
companied by two officers, a young lieuten.
ant, who had known him as slave, angered
at seeing him in the uniform of an officer
raised his riding-wllip, and struck him ovel
the shoulders. If he had been the savage
which the negro is painted to us, he had ouly
to breathe the insult to his $4,000 soldiers
and they would have trodden out the French
men in blood. But the indignant chief rode
lack in silence to his tent, and it was twenty
four hours before his troops heard of this in
suit to their General. Then the word went
fort. Death to every white man." They
had fifteen hundred prisoners. Ranged III
front of the camp. they were about to b. shot
Toussaiut. who had a vein Of religious fanati'
cism. like most great leadsrs-like Moham
med. like Napoleon, like Cromwell. like John
Brown CHEERS -he could preach as well as
fght-mounting a hillock, and getting the
ear Of the crowd. exclaimed: Brothers,
this blood will not wipe out the insult to our
chief; only the blood in youdsr French camp
can wipe It out. 10 shed that is courage ;