North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1866-02-21

which we must be prepared, if negro suf
fiage fails, is bloody revolt of the freed
men, in comparison with which Saint Do
mingo was nothing-a revolt, too, IN whose
behalf the Almighty and Mr.. Sumner
(though his last auxiliary don't count for
much in the fighting line) will fight That
we may not be supposed to overstate this,
we give his very words:
The freedman. though forbearing and
slow to anger, 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 oppressors. The
tragedy of Saint Domingo will be renewed
on wider theatre, with bloodier incidents.
BE warned BY this historic precedent. 1t
WAS the denial of rights to colored people
after excessive promises. which caused that
fearful insnrrecton. After various vicissi-
tudes, during which the rights of citizenship
were conferred on free people of color and
then resumed, the slaves at last rose. and
here the soul sickens at the recital
The name of Tonssaint L'Ouverture.
black of unmxcd blood, who placed him
self at the head of his race, showing the
genus of war and the genius of statesman
ship also. Under his magnanimous RUE
the beautiful island began to smile once
more, agriculture revived, commerce took
new start, the whites were protected in
person and property, and a constitution was
| adopted acknowledging the authority Of
France, but making no distinction on ac
count of color or race. In an I'll hour this
policy was reversed by a decree of Napo-
leon Bonaparte; war revived and the French
| army was compelled to succumb the con-
nection of St. Domingo with France was
broken, and this island bt came black re-
public
All this dr., ary catalogue of murder, bat
tie, sorrow and woe, began in the denial of
jastice TO the colored race. And only re-
Gently we have listened to similar tragedy
from Jamaica, thus swelling the terrible
testimony. Like causes produce like eff
| tccts, therefore all this will be ours if we
| 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
rerenge passing from the 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 so many
words, lie says that revenge from the ne
cess.ty Of the case is natural, and there is
no p..gt in modern history which he reads
with as much sympathy as he does the
record of the burning Of Cap Francais
cannon so holy and sacred as that of Tous-
saint LOuverture. 1t is simply horrible
that such language is tolerated. 1t is more
horrible thai it itshoul,l,a as we doubt not it is
be approved. The North American of YES
terday, while it treats Summers proposed
amendment with contempt and calls il
"nonsense," has 60 word of codemnatior
for sentiments such as these But Mr.. Sum
ner's Observation-Disclosures are false and
! delu,ive. He krows, none better, fol it has
been favorte study long, that but for the
mcddlesome interference of the "Amis de-
Noirs" in Revolutionary Paris, and the de-
cree Of 1901, Saint Domingo would at this
hour have been as contented and prosper
GUS colony as Cuba is. Such men as
! Bri>sot de Warville (Fr. nch Sumners) Sc,
the ball in motion with cry against ''olic
archy," and caste and negro slavery They
filed the heads Of negroes in the distant
colonies with notions of political equality
They made''f eedmen' of them, and the
end was blood, because, says Mr.. Sumner,
they did not get more and all they wanted
But it should be remembered that before
this blood came, the agitators of the mis-
chief had themselves perished. Bris.ot and
his Grondists, the especial black mans
friends, had gone to the scaffoId, if we mis-
take not, for our common place book is not
at hand to verify our dates, before the great
consnmmation in Saint Domingo. The
! American reaction. we trust. will not be
as sharp as the French one, but it may
come, and the cry against Charles Sumner
may be as loud as one once was, here in
the North--herc in Philadelphia-against
/ John Brown-Age.
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