New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1871-05-18

freedom througbeat the civilized world, whcl
lo fleet of fity ships-the finest, perhaps
ever sent out by Napoleon-with twenty fv
thousand veteran soldiers, left France TO
Hayt Toussaint had heard of the coming
He had no navy. but he arranged his forces {,
give the enemy the warmest possible rcccp
ton. On seeing the ships enter the harbor
he said "There come the enslavers of oul
race All France is coming TO St Domingo "a
try again to put the letters Oh our limbs bat
not France, with all her troops of the Rhine
the Alps, the Nile, the Tiber, nor ali Europe
to help her, can extnguish the soul Of Africa
That soul, when once the soul of man, aud
no longer that of a slave can overthrow tn,
Pyramids and the Alps themselves, sooner
than again be crushed down into slavery.
And he made good his words When he could
not defend his towns, he burned them, and the
French on landing found nothing but smoul-
derlng ruins where .once had stood prosperous
cities.
Toussaint and his generals betook themselves
to the mountains, and from thence operated
against the invaders and was victorious III
| nearly all the battles. But at length he was
betrayed by the Captain General who invited
him to council, where he was seized, placed
aboard French man-of-war. which immedI-
ately set sail for France. Here he was treated
with such rigor by the orders of Napoleon that
| ie ulcu beioTe ms tilnc, tnt VICTIM OF ulsCpHl-
| fort, u not OF starvation. He died like man :;
and the unfinching heroism with which he
! bore his wrongs and met his fate in its s'neu-
lar contrast with the subsequent almost childish
| dependency of ST. Helcnas exile, passes the
| crown OF manliness, as between the two, to the
brow of the negro chief, Toussaint EOuver-
! ture
We may say the Haytiens are not up to the
| civilization of the nineteenth century but who
is to blame One fact is very significant. They
have never been suhjugated, and to-day are 4.
nation of freemen.
| Liberia presents better example. Colonized
in 1871 by eighty emigrants, in lS6O the re
public had populate n of LiheTians proper
numbering one hundred and fifty thousand, be.
sides several neighboring tribes which had
! placed themselves under its protection for tine
| purpose of acquiring the arts and customs of
civilization. There you can find all the usual
| evidences Of Christian refinement and thrift
churches, schools, Notifications, hospitals
printing establishments, manufactures, etc.
The republic has furnished It's president, Rob
erts it has produced its chief instce--since
presldent-BensOn its bishops Burns and
Roberts its DIR. Magll, and other men of note.
1t has remained undisturbed by intestine broil,
superior to foreign invasion, IA terror To sayers,
a monument to the negros competency, in II
community strictly of his own, to develop ma
tional power on republican principles
HasCaucasian France done rs wel2 Look
Mt her history within the past century. Negro
| Hayt, to-day, does not much need anneXa
ton to the United States OF America; and ne
gro Liberia has already started the United
States of Africa, and rs competent to be the
precept0r of France in the art of selfgOvern
ment, fear, for years to come
?. Are there any obstacles interposed 10y the
Economy of Grace, rs revealed i'll the Scrip
lures, to the negro's early achievement of first
class maulincss Is it necessary that he shall
always stay in subordinate position, tO bring
a greater glory to God and benefit TO our com
mon humanity
Does what is called the Canaauitsh curse
by our authentic history, attach itself TO him
BY the very terms of its utterance this prophecy
or curse referred to Canaan and his pOsterltN
alone and no more affected the other sons o
. Ham than did the punished wlckedness o
AarOn's sons affect the pOsterity of Moses
While the color of the negro shows him TO bt
, Cushite there is nothing in history to show
that he is a Canaanite If the Canaanitcs, a
r such, ever entered Africa, it was the eXtrcm
unr N por.a ;uat ~hnrn Caucasian shaver
have been very careful not TO 60 for slaves
lest the tables might be turned on them. Tn
Carthagenans may have had this faint upo
them; but | should want more than tn
r Respondent uttcranccs OF Hannibal in misfor
tune to prove it. At all events the faint O
e race did not seem to restrain the intellectual
greatness of the man or the nation. Iii
D marches and battles are the most renowned q
antiquity; and his nation reached the highes
: pagan civilization.
1 BY one suppOstion alone-and this amount
= to but little more than supposition--can tn
0 negroes be connected with the Canaanites, viz
: through the lost lSraelitish tribes. There were
at various times, fearful violations Of the divin
prohibition against the intermarriage of Israe
ties with the aboriginal inhabitants of the lant
. The descendants of such an ANAL gamated pal
{ entage may have been more largely reprcsentc
y in the ten tribes which remained i'll bylo
. after the captivity than in the Jews who r,
; turned, by permission of Cyrus, to their ow
land.
: Though it would be very hard to prove thi,
> yet we give it the full force of fact and the
= Join in the superstition, which has been enter
tanned in some quarters, that they subsequent
went into Ethiopia, and by intermarrage wit
, the Cushite tribe lost their color and entailc
their curses On another people. What then
IL the posterity OF this cons Generation are Ca
naantes, they are also IsraeIites--the los
tribes found-and are included in all the prom
ises descriptive OF restored Israel And
. so, away goes the perpetual curse and dcgra
. datiOn.
But we are not to forget that We live unde
the New Testament dispensation. which OF
literates at a sweep ali partition walls aud Ills
tlnctiobs as against races. II III Jesus Chris
all the nations Of the earth were to be blcst
the genius If the Gospel has no place for IA pes
petual Old Testament curse. Paul on Mar,
Hill boldly avOwed the equality of man befor
the law OF creation and empire God hat
made of Que blood all the nations of men for L
dwell on the face of the earth"
To the Hebrews he asserts the equality 0
all men before the law Of redemption - III
! (Jesus Christi by the grace of God tasted deaf
for every man"
Elsewhere, before the law of improvement
- Be not children in understanding.
Before the law of Divine regard God i
f no reSpecter of persons
And before the law of natural regard
, "Honor all men,
In the presence of such New Testamen
utterances all theories which dwarf any elias
of mankind hopeiessly are proven to be false
3. And what is Providence but revelation
embodying itself in history? The process
, though slow, is sure. Man is often in hurry
God never is. AS the iceberg, carried bv tia
Gulf stream will travel on right in the eve O
the severest gale, Gods great designs 70
carried by the deep under current of his in
finite love, may not be retarded by the fcrc
political conflicts and International strife
which sweep over the surface Of the ocean o
time.
As people we have not been slow to dis
cover the presence of God in the former period