The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-10-28

same mighty problem confronted both-tO
still the mad passions of the excited people
and bring social order out of anarchy Yet
Napoleon, prince of the whites, murdered
Toussaint, prince of the blacks.
The revolution in France extended in all
its fierceness to the French colony in Santo
domingo. The white planters arose against
the king and preached the liberty of man.
The mulattoes initiated them, and the black
slaves demanded admittance to the broth
erhoed of equality Toussaint was a black
slave so years old living in cabin with a
wife and children, a confidential family
servant. He could read, and spent his lei
sure studying the lives of great command
ers and political leaders.
When the mulattoes and blacks organized
in 1870 to eskaorce their Interpretation of
the great doctrine of equality, Toussaint
held aloof, coming his Bible, Caesars Com
mentaries" and the military memoirs of
Europe. The blacks arose in 1891 and
turned the island into roaring furnace
paved with the charred bones of their for
mer masters. Toussaint secreted the fam
lily OF his master until the holocaust was
ended, then conveyed them with cargo of
riches to safety beyond the sea. The chains
OF slavery having of themselves dropped
from his black limbs, he hearkened at last
to the oft ignored cry of his people and
marched to their camps
The humanity of Toussaint in the care Of
bis master was not exceptional 1t was his
nature. and it placed him under the suspi-
cion of the three chiefs who headed the ne
Rroes-Biassou, Francois and Jeannot, who
were equally INSCRIPTIONS and cruel in
their war on the whites The black popu-
lace, however, appreciated Toussaint's abil-
tiles and character. Though the chiefs at
first humbled him by subordinate ap-
pointment Caring for the wounded) his per-
sonal popularity soon made him brigadier
general, one of three in the negro army.
Napoleon was at that time coquetting with
Republicans, Royalsts and Moderates in
Parls, waiting for his star to turn 1t turn
ed the day he opened the guns of the direc-
tory upon the Paris mob. Toussant's turn
ed the day he struck the daggers of mob
OF blacks from the breasts of hundred
whites doomed to massacre
The directory sent commissioners to
Santo Domingo to regulate its affairs.
Word reached the blacks that the com ais
sloners were peaceable, and they sent negro
emissaries to the council to talk about
peace. They were spurned as emissares of
revolted negroes" guilty men and unre-
pentant," to whom Justice would be melted
the assembly. The bearers of the olive
branch returned to the negro camp where
all the army and the civilians hopefully
awaited the response to their appeal. Their
news was brief The sigh for peace was
changed to blasting breath of war. The same
old cry, Death to the whites!' rang from
the lips of the mob, and Biassou, the fiery
and vindictive black who ruled the army,
ordered 100 white prisoners slaughtered in
the Enclosure of the camp. But there were
cool head and a strong heart in that
throng of outraged and ferocious savages
Toussaint pressed his way to his chief
spoke a few calm, firm words, and the fiend-
ish order was recalled.
That deed, with others which followed,
bore the name of the black hero to French
ears. Throughout all the bloody era of
uprisings and instructions the negroes
had kept their loyalty to the king. To dis
arm that devotion the revolutionary assem-
bly, OF France made the negroes the polit-
ical equals of the whites, at which the
white colonists rebelled, and the mulattoes