The enterprise., 1900-01-12
EDUCATIONAL CORNER.
tbe Negro has Accomplished
VIZ for Liberty.

p,r. R. r. Wright, A. NJ. pres
.,,,, Georgia State Industrial
p1ege, says ,
ve are accustomed to regard
,bsrtr as the white mans cause
md to ignore the part that the
,,cro has played in fostering it.
r.t in this country the colored
.,r has rendered an efficient SER
ire TO that end even as early as
DO revolution. Take the Massa-
.rsq-ts patriots. There is Girls
~, Attucks, Peter Salem and
.,1ars. And in the south there
+, Austin Dabney, who fought
Arough the revolution, was hon
red by the state of Georgia and
-rdered really a rare service to
II, country and its cause.
The historical records Of the
5ega Of Savannah in the French
rchiyes by the Hon. Richard
ppsh, our minister to France in
g49. shows that the most brilliant
feat on that day, and one of the
5rayest ever performed by for
ggn troops in the American cause
vas by the black legion of Vol
cr.eers who came from Santo
Domingo to Savannah to help the
Americans win their indepem-
ience. With Pulaski and Jas
Per they faced "the dogs of war"
n that eventful day and saved
he retreating American forces
rom annihilation by the British.
ike the Ninth and Tenth caval-
r. who occupied the right and
eft of Colonel RooSevelt'S Rough
IiderS in the battle of La Ouas-
ma and who are said to have
lved the gallant Roosevelt, so in
~ this Haytian black legion
lyed General L1nColn's army
ON disaster and defeat. In this
giOn there were a number of
ack men who afterward distin-
lished themselves; one, Henri
lristophe, became president of
e republic of Hayti.
This same black patriot band,
ter fighting at the siege of Sa-
.nnan, became famous again in
e spread of freedom through
It the South American repub-
,s. 1t was by their aid that
the illuStrious Bolivar, liberat-
and founder of five republics
South America, " undertook in
81, his great work of shaking
/ the yoke of Spain and of Sc
ring independence to those
Cd countries which swelled the
lferS Of the Catholic crown. 1t
as by negro arms, money and
len that Boliver became the
Eeat father of liberty in South
.mer.ca.
The first great expansion of
merica is, in some degree, due
D black troops. When Spain in
$40 cedeG to France the vast ter
tories Of Louisiana, and the
Peace Of Am1ens" in 1902 re-
Fyed Napoleon from war with
Napoleon thought that
was propitious for the
aCceSS Of the great colonization
'aeme which he had designed
" America. Peace with Eng
aao gave a tree highway upon
We ocean to the French fleets,
'oo that would enable Napoleon
" loTm an empire in the region
'neFe England would permit,
SUI u. would, perhaps applaud.
lis lITSt movement was to send
81 expedition to recover San Do |
~.DSo from the insurgent blacks.
.,''O' 'ae conquest OF this black
y ,P'O'lc' it was the purpose of
'PO'Ioa S army to take posses
VI louisiana, and these two
'-o'eS united would give France
h, VIZ oI prcponderance in the
W. IudIeS as we'll as CONNER
~ "u.ant7ges highly desired.
ny late OF America trembled
:, 'ae doubtful balance. 1t is
). ~ mat the army which Napo-
\. 'Cl' out for this purpose was
h. VI lle most imposing which
'r e. leitFrancc.
N i5 army, consisting of fifty
,,,,. .SaIPs-of.war with $4,000
H., men, left France to con-
h.. Nayh and subsequently, to