Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1867-09-25

ken to his tomb stSt Helena BY that sarns
and there he wasted his dying hours in
complaining Of tassels and curtains, Of
dishes and rldes- God grant that when
some future Piutarch shall weigh tho
great men Of our epoch be do not put that
whining child at st. Helena into one
scale and into the other the black meeting
death without murmer in the solitude
of his icy dungeon.
They heard ofhis death in the Island
and rushed to arms Every negro but
Maurepas deserted the French. Leclerc
summoned Maurepas. He came to the
ship loyalty bringing with hmm 600 sol
dleH- Leclere spiked his e2anlsttes to
his shoulders, shot him, and dung hin In
to the sea. He took his 500 soldiers on
shore, shot them on the edge Of the Dit,
and tumbled them In. Dessalinss from
the mountains saw it and selecting 500
French officers from his prisons, hung
them on seperata trees in sight Of Mr.. Le-
clerc's feet; and born IS / was In sight OF
Bunker Hill, I have not yet found time
TO think he did wrong. Cheers.l They
took Pierre Toussaint's wife as his own
door, and it was mercy when they killed
her. The maddened husbkAd, Who had
but the year before saved the lives Of 200
white men, carried the next thousand
prisoners he took and sacrificed them on
her grave, " .-.1
What the sword did not dsEour the fs-
yer ate up. Leclerc died. Pauline, his
wife, went back with his body 70 France.
Napoleon met her, and said: oSlster, /
gave yoa an army-your bring me back
sahes." Rochambeau-the Rochambeau Of
cur history-left in command Of 5000
troops, sent word TO Dessaliness sfWhen
take you ! will not shoot you,liks Aaog,
or hang you ike . white man; I VIII
whip you 10 death like . slave Deza-
lines chased him from battle field to bat
tie field and castle to castle, and finally
shut him up in SamanA Heating can
non balls 70 destroy his feet, Dessalines
learned that Rochambeau had begged
Of the English Admiral permission TO
cover his troops with the English Rag,
and the generous negro :1fered him to do
it.
Some doubt the courage Of the 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 satisfy you, 60 TO France 70 the
splendid mausoleum Of the Courts %
Rochsmbeau, and to the 1900 graves of
the Frenchmen who skulked home under
the English flag, and ask them And Z
that does not satisfy you come home, and
If il had been December, 1859, you might
have come by the way ofquaking Virgin
ia, and ask her what she thought Of negro
courage.
And you msy remainder this, that We
Saxons were slaves 400 years, sold
with the land, and our fsthars never rsls-
ed finger to end that slavery. Thew
waited till Christianity and civilization.
till commerce and the discovery Of Amer
ica melted away their chains. SpartAcns
IN Italy led the slaves Of Rome against
the Empress Of the world She crudded
hlm and crushed them Thsre never was
slave rebellion successful bat once, and
that was in st. Domingo. There never
was race that unaidsd tore off its own
letters and forged them into swords and
won their own liberty on the battle hald
but one, and that was the black race OF
st. Domingo.
So much for the courage Of Z negro
Now look at his endurancs, In 1906, he
said TO the white men: This Islsnd Is ours:
not white foot shall touch L. Side BY
side with him stood the South American
Republics, planted by the best blood Of the
country Of Lope da Vega and Cefvaates.
They toPple over 50 often that you could
no more daguerreotype their crumbling
fragments than the waves Of the OCEAN
And yet, at their side, the negro has kept
his island sacredly 10 himself Burn over
New York tonight, al ap-hsF canals,
INK every ship destroy her railroads, blot
out every remnant Of education nom her
sons, let hsR be pennies, with nothing
but har hands to begin the world over
,gain- How much could she do in sixty
ieaIst And Europe, too, Eo1ld lend her.
money, but she win not lend Hsyti dol
ar. Hayti, from the ruins Of her eolloni-
4 dependence, ia become civilized state.
he seventh nation In the catalogue OF
commerce with this countr y, inferior in
morals and education 70 mona % the
West Indian isles TousssiRt made her
Ehat she is Courage, purpose, sndu-
ance-they are the tests. he did plAnta
;tate so deep that all France has not been ,
.ble to root il up. e
1 would call him Napoleon, bat Napo-
con made his way TO empire ever broken
'aths and through . sea Of blood. This
nan never broke his word, land the last
Eords uttered 70 his son in France we're
hesss 'My boy, you ElH some day 60
lack to st. Domingo; forget that Francs
murdered your father I would call him
but Cromwell wss only sol
ier, and the State he founded went down
nth him into his grave. I would call
i'm Washington, but the great Virgini-
n held slaves. This man risked his en-
ire rather than permit the slave trade in
be humbiiest villsge Of his dominions-
You think me fanatic tonight, for
on read history not with your eyes, bat
nth your prejndices. But 50 years hence
Then impartial history gets written, some
'lutaPch Of later days viii put Phociea for
be Greek and Brutus for the Roman,
Iampden for England, Fsyette for
'rance, choose Washington IS the bright,
flower of Our earliar civilizs-
on, and Fremont the ripe fruat Of eur
oon-dAy lthanders Of applause l-thea
ipping his pencil in sunlight, will grite
4 the clear blue above them all the name
T the soldier, the statesmAn, the martyr,
'oussaint E0uVerture. -