The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-08-28

was aware of their intention and put every estate to the torch. Cane-felds burned like tinder while sugar mills and store-houses of rum lit up the heavens with vast confagration. All the pent-up hatred of years on the part of the slaves for their cruel masters, burst forth like a resistless flood, and they rushed upon the defenseIess plant CTS and their families. butchering them by hundreds, torturing them with fiend- ish glee, tearing them limb from limb and throwing the dismembered bodies into the flames.
 Meanwhile, in the Santo Dcmingo portion of the island, horrible atrocities were being committed in the war of races, which ended in the mul2ttoes be- ing lost in possession. For two years bloody skirmishes were kept up In Haiti between the whites of the towns and the blacks who had taken posses sion of the plantat 'ons-a reign of ter TOT, in which all the horrors of the French revolution, then raging across the Atlantic, were transferred to this little island Finally, when slavery was abolished by France in all her colonies, the HGSTUGS OI I1dlll-WuU lklCu (Clil~ prised more than three-fourths of the population-were declared free citizens. They celebrated their emancipation by fresh massacres of men, women and children, more burnings and deeds of darkness whose full horrors cannot be told. Napoleon sent an army to subdue them, and then the black fiends, having no knowledge of civilized warfare, took to their heels and hid in the impa ssabla jungles and fastnesses of the noun tains Finding nobody to fight, and tir- ing at last of inactivity and the ar rogance of the free mulattnes, the com mander of the fleet sent his marines in- to Cap Haytien. The fight was then between whites and mulattoes; and be- ing about equally divided as to num- bers, the governor in desperation lfber- ated the prisoners from the jails and called in the blacks from the surround ing country to his assistance, prom's- ing them pardon for their past mis- deeds. But in making the dangerous experiment he got good deal more than he bargained for. The savage hordes poured into the city like river of fire, killing. naiming and burning to their hearts content, caring little whom they attacked so long as they | were French. Hundreds of the citizens were drowned in their efforts to escape 1 to vessels in the harbor, and hundreds more perished at the hands of the blacks. Flames were applied to store houses filled with oil and pitch, and soon the city looked like a huge vol cano with mighty volume of fire and smoke about it. Realizing his mistake when too late to rectify it, the governor sailed from Cap Haytien to Norfolk. Va, with the remnant of white cit gers most of whom settled permanently in l the United States. In the doomed 'sl- and, pestience followed close up7n this i disaster French could not afford to keep on sending thousands of soldiers l to die like sheep in these fever-haunte1 ports, while the unconquered blacks re- mained safely hidden in the mountains and finally gave up all attempt to control the island. Then Spain tried her hand at it; then England, with equally poor success. The world is familiar with the subsequent history of the isl- and. In the year 1894 upwards of 2,E0O white people were murdered in Can Haytien between the last of April and the middle of May. All their vast estates were left to the mercy of the ig- norant blacks Negro "generals' took possession of the finest of them. work
 ing them by the labor of thei" soldiers, and the rabble squatted on the rest.
 Toussaint L'Ouverature, the f1"st black ruler, was a man of surprising | capacity, considering that he was | fffty-two years a plantation slave. Be- fore the French government made him general-in- chief of the island, on &C., count of his influence with the people.
 General Desselaine was also a pianta- tion slave, and the celebrated Chris
 tophe was waiter in a cafe; but both
 died kings, though neither could read or write when called to reign. think l it was about the year 1911 when Des-
 selaines was declared king of Haiti l and his first act was to order the burn ing of Cap Haytien and the massacre of all the French residents remaining on the island. He was assassinated-
 probably by one of his jealous follow
 CTS and was succeeded by Christophe.
 The ex-waiter established an heredi-
 tary monarci-the first and only one of
 it's kind outside of Africa. He had him
 self crowned as Henry I. and instituted
 nobility with such redtcu1ous titles as Duke of Lemonade, Duke of Marmalade
 and other equally grotesque. Even an order of knighthood was created, the
 nobility and Knights of St, Henry" be- ing late planta ton hands, who, like
 their head and master, could neither
 read nor write. After a most bar
 barous reign, Christophe died by his own hand, in his Castle of Sans Souci,
 near Cape Haitian. The ruins of this
 palace without Care" are to-day the most famous attraction of the island. Built upon the brow of hill, in a long,
 lovely valley shut in by mountains. it's terraces and esplanades and towers and
 endless suites of apartments were ex-
 tensive enough for any king, black or white There was the splendid throne
 room, where the cruel Christophe.
 Henry I. King of the North" held his
 receptions; and adjoining it a private
 church for the tyrant and his family.
 The palace gardens supplied flowers
 and fruits of every variety, and moun-
 tain streams were diverted from their
 courses to flow through them in falls
 and cascades. Here was enacted that
 burlesque of royalty that caused the
 world to smile, some of the distinguish