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

sects Rochambeau sent to Cuba for blood
hounds. When they arrived, the young
girls went down to the wharf, decked the
hounds with ribbons and flowers, kissed their
necks and, seated in the amphitheater, the
women clapped their hands to see a negro
thrown to these hounds, previously starved to
rage But the negroes beseiged this very
city so closely, that these same girls, in their
misery, ate the worry hounds they had well
coined.
Then flashed forth that dtfying courage
and sublime endurance which shows how
alive all races are when tried in the same
furnace. The Roman wife, whose husband
had faltered when Nero ordered him to kill
himself, seized the dagger. and MORALLY
wounding her own body. cried. g oetus, it
is not hard to die" The world records it
with proud tears. Just in the same spirit
when negro Colonel was ordered to execu-
ton and trembled, his wife seized his sword
and giving herself death-wound, said,
| " Husband, death is sweet when liberty is
gone"
The war went on. Napoleon sent over
thirty thousand more soldiers. But disaster
still followed his efforts. What the sword
did not devour. the fever ate up. Leclerc died.
Pauline carried his body back to France.
Napoleon met her at Bordeaux, saying,
"Sister gave You an army-you bring me-
back ashes" Rochambeau-the Rochanl-
beau of our history-left in command of g.
600 troops sent word to Dessalines "When
take you, will not shoot you like soldier.
or hang You like white man; will whip
YOU to death, like slave" Dessalines chased
him from battlefield to battlefield, from
fort to fort, and finally shut him up in Sama-
ia. Heating cannon balls to destroy his
fleet, Dessalines learned that Rochambeau
had begged of the British Admiral permission
to cover his troops with the English flag.
and the generous negro suffered him to do it.
Some doubt the courage of tn" negro. Go
to $4,000 graves of the best soldiers France
ever had, and ask them what they think of
the negro's sword. And if that does not
suit YOU, 90 to France. to the splendid mau-
soleum of the Counts of Rochambeau, and to
the 5000 graves Of Frenchmen who skulked
home under the English flag. and ask them.
And if that does not satisfy you, come bone,
and if had been October. 1859, you might
have come by way Of quaking Virginia, and
asked her what she thought of negro courage.
You may also remember this, that We Sax
ons were slaves about four hundred years,
sold with the land, and our fathers never raised
finger to end that slavery. They waited
till Christianity and civilization, till commerce
and the discovery of America, melted away
their chains. Spartacus in Italy led the
slaves of Rome against the Empress Of the
world. She murdered him and crucifed
them. There never was a slave rebellion
successful but once, and that was in st. Do
mingo. Every race has been, some time or
other in chains. But there never was
race that weakened and degraded by such
cl,attal slavery, unaided, tore off its own
fettcrs, forged them into swords, and won its
liberty on the battlefield, but one, and that
was the black race of St. Domingo. God
grant that the wise vgor of our Government
may avert that necessity from our land may
raise into peaceful liberty the four million
committed to our care, and show, under dem
ocratic institutions, a craftsmanship as far
sighted as that of England, as brave as the
negro of Hayti!
So much for the courage of the negro.
Now look at his endurance. In 1903, he
said to the white men: This land is ours
not white foot shall touch it," Side by side
with him stood the South American Rrpub-
lies planted by the best blood of the country
men of Lopez de Vega and Cervantes. They
I.topple over so often that you could no more
dasuerreotype their crumblng fragments than
You could the waves of the ocean. And vet,
at their side, the negro has kept his island
sacredly to himself. 1t is said that ut first,
with rare patriotism, the Haytien Government
ordered the destruction Of all tho sugar plan.
tations remaining, and discouraged its culture,
deeming that the temptation which lurrd the
French back again to attempt their enslave-
ment Burn over New York tonight, fill up
her canals, sink every ship, destroy her rail
roads, blot out every remnant of education
from her sons. LIT her be penniless, with moth.
ing but her hands to begin the world again
how much could she do in sixty yearsl And
Europe too, would lend you money, but she
will not lend Hayti dollar. Hayti, from the
ruins of her colonial dependence, is become
civilized state. tho seventh nation in the
catalogue of commerce with this country, in.
ferior in morals and education to none Of the
West Indian isles. Foreign merchants trust
her courts as willingly as they do orr own.
Thus far, she has foiled the ambition of Spain,
the greed of England, and the malicious states
manship of Calhoun. Toussaint made her
what she is. In this work, there was grouped
around him a score of men. mostly Of pure ne
gro blood. who ably seconded his efforts.
They were able in war, and skilfal in civil
affairs, but not like him remarkable for that
rare mingling Of high qualities which alone
makes true greatness, aud insurrs to one lead
ership among men, otherwise almost his
equals. Toussaint was indisputably their
chief. Courage. purpose. ndurance-these
are the tests. He did plant State so deep
that all the world has not been able to root it