The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-08-21

tory-War and Rnpine Has Been
the Rule Ever siuce the First
Spaninrd Landed Tn re.
From the Cincinnati Enquirer
San Domingo and Hayti have hong been
held, even by intelligent people. 10 be two
distinct islands. and until the Spanish
American war brought them into promi-
nece We're as little known as Bechuana-
land. Yet it is probable that nowhere on
earth is there a more beautiful spot than
that comprising these two little republics
II is quite certain that no people in tine
world have had more history crowded into
their lives than the mixed races by courtc~
sy denominated Haytiaus and san Domin-
leans, for from the moment the unfortu-
nate Columbus discovered the pace their
lot has been one of UNMARRIED persecution
Yet the people of the two nations are TO
day perhaps the happiest on the globe. No
land has greater real prosperity, for men
delaney is unknown, and a good living
may be had almost for the asking.
State of Continual War.
War has never ceased on the island since
the naughty Spaniard first set foot there
The aborignes soon disappeared under his
sway, as they have from almost every
other place in which he has had power
but slaves imported by Yankee traders
from Africa took their place and went on
mixing the race. Much has been written
of the deeds of blood done on the island
many real heroes has ii produced-as Wit
ness Touissant lOuVerturc, on whose das-
tardly treatment from the French Whit
tier wrote one of the best Of his poems.
But the character of the people on the
whole has been ferocious. the prevalence of
extreme ignorance, the climate and the
treatment They are to-day the jollest
most easy-going people to be found. yet
the volcano merely elumberS, and
the revolution now brewing may
be as horrible in its consum
nation as any yet arisen. The last
war of prominence was waged from 1868 10
1865, when the Spaniards, who had been
invited into power by traitor President.
were eXueled from the island by the
combined forces Of the patriotic South Do
mnicaus and the HAITIAN government. In
this war the blacks creoles and even the
native whites did such deeds as We are
accustomed to ascribe to darkest Africa
alone.
Rebellion of 1889.
The white population of the island took
advantage of the action of the French as
a free and Independent people. The soud-
stirring struggle of the American people
had filed Haitians and Santo Dominicans
alike with the spirit of emulation and al
though, as in the case of that same glo-
rious American revolution itself, the an
ti-slaVery" movement fell far short so far
as the blacks were concerned, sun they
dubbed themselves patriots, and eXpelhng
the despouc Governor who had served
under Louis XVI. sci up a republic Of the T
own. The constituents Of this at best pro-
visional government, although they COM
prsed all The wealth and culture in the
land We're sim insignificant in numbers
The whites were about as l to 20 10 the
total population; the muattoes, who con-
stituted an approach TO a middle class were
about as one to five. The remainder of the
/ popu.atiOn were full-blooded negroes. And
these three races waged three seVerd
wars in each of which the uprising power
assumed the red cockade and arrogated &c
themselves the title patriots. The whites
rebelling against a despotc King aboard
declared themselves sole rulers of the ISL
and and announced that black and mu'
latto might remain in slavery. Their sway
was no sooner on a path to stability thar
the mulattoes arose, declaring Themselves
the equals of the whites, whom they man
ifestoed might be permitted TO join them
and announcing that the negro would stu
water to them both. WhereupOn the black
not to be left behind in the race for indie
pendence rose In his might and admins'
tered to the combined forces of the white
and part white such a drubbing that they
FASTENED to receive him as fun citizen OF
the republic" and secretly congratulated
themselves on the salvation of their skins
and homes at any price. In the course OF
which conflicts, extending over a period
Z of several years the Island was devastat-
ed from one end to the other and what
/ little religion and culture Spanish indo-
| lence had by chance instilled was cast
to the winds.
JeannOt the Terrible.
Perhaps the most prominent character
! of the earlier of these wars, certainly the
/ most powerful and influential in the isl
and until Toussaint BOuverture arose
was a certain negro chieftain named Jean
/ not. He had been slave on a plantd
! ton back in the mountains, where the In
i surrection broke out and, being man Of
great power among a mob whose on.y
/ conceptions of a general were laid in phys
4 ical strength. He made his first hit by
! arising one night and Staying his master
and mistress, after performing on then
| only daughter before their eyes deeds a
which the white to-day still trem
bles The ingenuity with which he per.
formed this first feat and the unbridleC
saturnala he made haste to proclaim tC
/ his kind soon spread abroad among the
blacks of that province which was
mountainous one, like widfre. Jeanno
] called a meeting the night after the muir
der in the mansion of his former own
ers." When the delighted blacks thronget
! into the rooms they had formerly entered
only as menials. Jeannot presented then
the head Of the before mentioned daugh
ter who, for reasons best known to him
self he had decided to kin rather thar
| preserve and, waving on high on The
point Of a long Spanish lance the impalet
form Of his late, mistress latest born an
4 infant a few weeks Old he informed tn,
slaves that the hour of retr1buton wa'
come. In less than a month they hat
overrun half of the island.
UnspeaknbIe Deeds of Blood.
Jeannors originality did not forsak'
| him. Wherever he went he left track
| Of ashes and blood behind, and the free
! dom he allowed his followers secured hin