Wichita eagle., 1889-07-07

S45, 000, 900, chiefly to France The white
planters claimed share in the French re-
public, the poor whites opposed the planters,
the colored tnulatto) intrigued against both,
and in due time the blacks rose against all
three. The English came in and joined the
blacks against the;French and mulattoes. The
horrors of the war can never be told. Political
prisoners were bound between boards and
sawed in two. Town after town was burnt
and every person in it killed, regardless of age
or sex.
At length arose the talented and humane
Toussaint L'OuvertUre, and succeeded in uni
ting the colored of all shades; 10000 French
soldiers died OF yellow fever and the remnant
surrendered to the English and left the island
TousSaint declared a general amnesty and
entered into a treaty with Napoleon Bona
parte; the latter had him captured and i'm
prisoned him in a fortress in the Alps, where
he died Of cold and neglect.
MASSACRE OF TIE WHITES.
The Haytians established republic, and
then began the long struggle between the
pure blacks and the coiored. On the first day
OF 1904 Dessalinas was chosen president for
life, and his first decree was order to mas
sacre all the French except the doctors and
priests Many were protected in the coast
towns; Of the rest not one escaped Old and
young, both sexes, the patriarch, the new
born babe and nursing mother were beats1 to
death, tossed on pixies or hewed in pieces with
cane knives The news arrived that Bona
parte was made emperor Dessalines irnrne-
diately assumed the same title for Havti, bu.
as he Was a black the nlulattoes rebeled, and
he was defeated and sact. having reisned no,
quite two years
There was a year Of war, then a new con-
stitution was adopted, and Potion (nulatto)
made president late in 1896 TIE blacks. led
by Christophe, Rigaud and others, revoked
and there were FIVE years Of war, The ceun-
try was then divided under five rulers, IN
I'll Chrisbophe consolidated the blacks and
crowned himself as King henry L He was
soon killed
1n1st6a new constitution was adopted pro-
vidiAg for a teur years presidency, and Pc
ton WIS cbesn, bat be died IN 1sls-''nos
without suspicion of yaudou1 poison" says
the raueatto HISTORIAN
Gen. Boyer was chosen 20 succeed and an
nexed San Domingo, thus reunitang the
island As president, protector, dictator and
provisional gsaezal, be reasaed many years;
but San Domingo seeded, and 50 the Hayti-
ans drove Buyer ioto exile and the senate
chose Gen Heard Riviere In bis stead Four
months later tneso was anotaer revolution
and he Gei to Jamaica
The uuistsoes sow eos-consFol again ard
chose Gen GaeTTier president; bat in year
he died q dsoauchsrv
MASSACRE or TIE xULATToES
There was g srvrt, slerp fight: the Hulss-
toes were beaten and the blacks rla9ePieEros
president In q year be fed from ais own
soldiers and Rschs another black, was chosen
In year he dssd-sariy IN isis-ths cause
not beSng gIr=a b sae histories. CapA Sou-
ioucne. ft,li black and rsudc<,x worship
er WIS then c1scszsi and IN cue tina De-
came tie noted Emperor Fs<sszn lis
whole rci-n was IA orgy Of revei, riot nlur-
der and H-asacre- Els policy was pain aad
explicit and titus declared:
Crush the -nsiAsspes toey are fne curses