The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1866-02-14
The Bloody Alternative.


Senate plainly that The alternative for which
we must be prepared, if negro suffrage fails,
is bloody revolt of the freedmen, in com.
parison with which Saint Domingo was
notting-a revolt, loo, in whose behalf the
Almighty and Mr.. Sumner (though this last
auxiliary don't count for much in The fight
ing liuel will fight. That we may not be
supposed TO oysrsIale this, we give his very
words:
The freedman, though forbearing enc
slow loaanger, will not submit TO outrage
always. He will resist, resistance will be
organized, and here will begin the terrible
war OF races foreseen by Jefferson, where
God in all his attributes, has none which
can take part with the oP2rsssors. The
tragedy OF Saint Do..,::.iago will be renewed
on on wider Ihcs,er, With bloodier incidents.
De "Srned By this historic precedent. 1t
was ,ne denial of rights 10 colored people,
alter excessive promises, which caused that
fearful nsurrection. After various vicissi-
tudes, during which the rights Of citizenship
were conferred on free people of color aud
then resumed, the slaves at last rose, and
here the soul sickens al the recital.
The name OF Tousssint L'Ouverture,
black of unmixed blood who placed him.
self al the head OF his race, showing the
genius of war and the genius of statesman-
ship also. Under his magnanimous rule
the beautiful island began 10 smile once
more, agriculture revived, commerce took
new start, the whites were protected in
person and properly, and constitution was
adopted acknowledging the authority OF
France, bnt making no distinction on ac.
count OF color or race. 10 An evil hOur this
policy was reversed by decree of Napo
leon Bonapare war revived and the French
army was compelled 10 succumb the con-
nection OF St. Domingo with France was
broken, and This island became black re-
public.
All this dreary catalogue OF murder, bat
tie, SORROW and woe, began in the denial of
justice 10 the coiored race. And only re-
Gently We have listened to a similar tragedy
from Jamaica, thus swelling the terrible
testimony. Like causes produce like ef-
fecis, therefore all this will be ours If we
madly persist in The same denial of Justice.
The freedmen among us are not unlike
the freedmen of ST. Domingo or Jamaica
they have the same organs, dimensions,
senses, affections, passions, and above all
The same sense of wrong, and the same
reUenge passing from tue necessity of The
case.
There is one soul that does not sicken at
this recital, and that soul is Mr.. Charles
Summers. He thinks and, in go many
words, he says that revenge from The ne
cessiiy OF The case is natural, aud there is
no page in modern story which he reads
with much sympathy as he does the
record of The burning of Cap. Franca!s-no
canon so holy and sacred as that of Tous-
saint L'Ouveriure. 1t is simply horrible
that such language fs tolerated. Il is more
horrible that il should, as We doubt not il is,
be approved. The North Ame, team of yes
lerday; while il treats Summers proposed
amendment with contempt and calls il
nonsense" has no word of condemnation
for sentiments such as these. But Mr. Sum-
ner's historical statements are false and
deIusive. He knows, none better, for it has
heen favorite study long, that but for The
meddlesome interference OF the "Amis des
Noirs" in Revolutionary Paris, and The de-
cree of 1871, Saint Domingo would al this
hour have been as con;enied and prosper
Gus a colony as Cuba is. Such men as
Brissot de WarvilIe (French Sumners) SET
The ball in motion with; "a cry against "JIic
arcby," and casre and negro slavery. They
filled the heads of negroes in the distant
colonies with notions of political equality.
1ney made "lreedmen" OF them, and the
end was biood, because, says MIR. Sumner.
they did not gel more and all they wanted.
But it should be remeEb EbeTed that before
this blood came, The agiiators OF the mis-
chief had themselves perished. Brissot and
his GiroEdis;s, the especial black mans
friends, had gone TO the scaffold, il we
mistake not, for our common place cook is
not at hand 10 verify our dates, before the
great consummation in Saint Domingo
The American reaction, we trust, will not
be as sharp as the French one, but il may
come, and The cry against Charles Sumner
may be as loud as one once was, here in
the Norh-Lere in Philatel phia-against
John Brown-.4ge.