The weekly Butte record., 1863-05-23
Toussant L'0verture.
BY \ REFUBLlcAS ADNIRER.

Michigan, by travelling Republican lecturer.
We vouch fst the correctness OF the report:
Ladies and gentlemen-admirers of genuine
color-I reappear before You tonight under
somewhat embarrassing circumstances, having
just arrived on the evening train, and feel
somewhat Incompetent TO do justice to the i'm
mortal niger. whom we are here this evening
to apotheosize and hold up TO the emulation
of our posteri'y. Detestiug apologies, how
ever, | shall offer none. In whatever condition
your speaker may find himself be lays the
fattering JUNCTION TO bis SOUL that the lecture
will be worthy the collection that win follow
Judging BY former visit TO this place, when
your respected speaker had to foot it to his
uext appointment in Constantine, where l ar
rived in time to learn, be is sorry to relate
that the only medium of spiritual consolation
the place afforded-the Constantine Distiliery
l. tremendous cheers. and waving of handker-
chiefs by the males present, had been closed
by the excise authorities. [Groans for the
excise officers, several colored persons fainting
through sympathy for the lecturers sufferugs
and are carried out during the excitement
| have taken the precautou not to trust to
contributions this time, and have, therefore
exacted at the door an admission fee of fifteen
cents. Cheers, and cries of Bully for you"
Of what consequence is such a trivial spiritual
disappointment, to those who have patriotically
assembled here tonight in the dread hour of
their countrys great danger, to hold sweet
communion with the heroic spirit of departed
niger, that once animated and pervaded all
Hayti? What are all proud spirits of Ameri-
cas- history, in comparison with the iueffable
sweetness and sublime heroism of Hayti's great
statesman and patriot? Washington, Jeffer-
son, and all the patriots of the revolution, are
excellent models in their way, and | take
pleasure in recommending that they be intro
duced into our school. for the emulation of our
youths. Some expression of disgust here es-
capped from the audience.] Let no one think
your speaker is losing the main point, in thus
dwelling upon home patriots, or that he has
lost the thread of his discourse in contempat-
ing these lesser stars of American greatness.
| recommend their emulation BY our youths
upon the well known natural principles of
." milk for babes, and strong drink for men,"
Cheers, during which the lecturer drank
glass of water, or gin, it being impossible to
Il 1i-tin h- ha If ha ,bO
biography proving at fault.] Milk and strong
drink did say? Why not? Let our youth
Statesmen, until maturer years and ripened
judgments shall enable them to become as
patriotic as those | now see before me, and
perhaps some lecturer, more able than the
unpretending speaker now before you, will
open to them, as | am freely endeavoring to
unfold TO you, the (arsurpassing glory, heroism
and craftsmanship of the gallant and beloved
niggers of Hayti. [Uproarious applause.
Voice-"Three cheers for Hayti, the land of
natural odors the laurel and the myrtle.'] The
characters of the patriots and founders of the
American Government bear no comparison
with that Of the immortal hero of Hayti-
Toussant L'Overturel However appropriate
such white trash may have been in their day
and generation, their glory must give way be-
fore that Of the vastly superior and triumphant
bigger, However competent this white Ameri-
can trash was TO achieve their own independ-
ence and to govern themselves, our own expe-
rience has proven that they were incompetent
to form a stable government, and hence, all
truly patriotic hearts turn from the tomb of
Mount Vernon, to worship at the shrine of
the niger in the brighter glories and herosm
of Hayti. 1t needs the noble, enduring ex-
ample of Hayti to make America assume her
proper place among nations. To render the
names of our own heroes and patriots immor-
tai, they must be associated with the more
noble and grand and heroic son of Hayti-
Toussant L'Overture! Let our patriots and
statesmen form the sub-structure of the endur-
ing monument of American greatness, to be
capped with the imperishable glory of niger
the hallowed light of Hayti, Thus shall
our national fame remain untarnished and our
future progress be hand in hand with the
sterling greatness and profound craftsmanship
of the most glorious Republic that ever dawned
upon the world Il mean Hayti and her
French and African blood, which have pro-
duced warriors, and statesmen, and poets that
have eclipsed all the balance of the world
[Cheers for Hayti.
Fellow admirers of the Adorable Negro
This concludes the regular lecture upon Tous
SAINT L'Overture, written by Fred Douglas ex-
pressly for your humble servant l should
here pause and count the change taken at the
door. but that | wish to notice the very ig-
norant aud malicious production Of vicious
Copperhead, which is calculated to tarnish the
glory of the niger, if left uncontradicted. OF
coursa il is onlv necessary for me to refer to il to