New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-04-25
re started the American constitution, the

We started the American CONSTITUTION, the
contagion of freedom spread over their
colonies as the epizootic or any other en-
demic The French colony of San Do
mingo clared the universal freedom
and equality of mankind without regard
to race. color or previous condition.
Then followed most deplorable mas
sacre OF the whites and people Of mixed
blood, and San Domingo subsidized under
colonial government, one Of its last
rulers under that system having secured
the adoption Of a constitution which
made the executive power. in effect,
hereditary. Napoleon, then First Con-
sui, took q different view OF the
colonial relation, and the French
Legislature decided to restore in
effect the slavery which had existed
before the adoption of republican instltu
tons. The colonists resented this decree
and declared their independence. The
French government sent q fleet and army
to reduce them to obedience and the fight
began. This was about the year 1908.
The colonists had neither arms nor other
material and the French invaders had
everything that military science demand
ed. 1t was war of some years, fought
almost exclusively by such mulattoes,
critics and negroes as Potion and Dessa-
lines LIE Brun, etc, fought with the fort
resses, the diseases, the privations of the
country General lie Clerc-the brother
in-law of Napoleon-died of the yellow
fever, and his army and fleet, wearied
and exhausted by the resolution to be
free or perish, withdrew, as did Corn
wallis, and the Spaniards from South
America. and as they will do from
Cuba. The foreign government has in
most Of those cases cited, given up the
colonies because Of their domestic or
foreign wars. The strife between the
Royalists and Republicans in Spain with
the general prostration of resources will
give Spain enough to do at home She
will need all her troops in the civil war,
and can now only send the contemplate
reinforcement of battalion at time to
subjugate the patriots, the fever, and the
wilderness of Cuba Il will soon be the
case in Cuba, as vas once claimed by
Weatherford for the Creek Indians, "that
il nobody else interfered they could raise
corn on one bank of the Chattahoochie
and whip the Georgians on the other. :"
The patriots in Cuba ibre can live in
safety and abundance on one side the
Notifications reared across the island by q Q
terrified Spaniards, and whip their in
| yaders on the other.
Every day Of delay strengthens the pa
triots and brings a crisis, in which the
| Spaniards must acknowledge the indie
pendence of the island or be expelled from
it. 1t is to be hoped for the sake Of hu-
mainly this period may soon arrive. This
slaughter Of prisoners who have been
taken or SURRENDERED unconditional
slaughter Of prisoners without regard 20
age, sex or condition, should be termi-
mated. If our own and other governments
will not hasten that period by acknowl-
edging the belligerency Of five years
struggle, and the occupation Of impreg-
nable territory by one party 20 the con.
test, why, from the report of the Herald
commissioner, the patriots will secure their
own independence without assistance.