The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-03-22
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| and done on the race question In Amer lea, the final and concluding argument against negro rule is written in tha bloody annals of Hayti
 Another of the frequent revoIutio is at hand and the Haytien harbors ar crowded with foreign war vessels to protect the subjects of foreign gover
 ments who in Hayti have assuranc, neither of the safety of their lives no. of their property,
 Hayti Is conceded to be the wors 1 governed country in the world. ol writers picture 1t a century ago as h' ing a Garden of Eden. Today. It ts said no wilderness Is so desolate as the l country districts of Haytl. The once fine highways are overgrown with weeds and grass; the old sugar houses 1 are roofess and a wildernesses of wild l growth clog the yards to the old plan. tation homes. In the cities conditions are hardly better. The island. one of the largest and richest in the Atlantic Ocean is practically without commerce and of no interest to the governments ] of this day except as a place from which demands are frequently made by wandering subjects for protection that the island government can not give.
 Alabama has a peculiar interest in this gloomy island. The slaves rose more than a century ago and mur- dered the larger part of the white pop ulation. A few escaped. Some of those who escaped came to Alabama and joined the party of Bonapartists who tried unsuccessfuliy to establish the Vine and Olive Colony in Marengo County.
 The Bonapartists, 1t will be recalled, were banlshed from France on the res- toratIon of the Bourbons. They took refuge in Philadelphia. where a num- Der of their compatriots had establish ed themselves and formed a society for the protection of the exiled emigrant. This society secured from the Amerl- can government a large gift of land in Marengo County on the Tombisbee River. near the present city of Demop- oils. The Bonapartists were not suc- cessful in their endeavor to establish a permanent colony in West Alabama. but they affected the current of life in that section of the State. and today many of their descendants are promi- nent in the affairs of Alabama. Their allegiance to Napoleon is preserved to- day in the West Alabama names which recall his glory-Marengo. Demopolis, Arocle and others.
 Tn the early days of the Alabama colonists of Bonapartlsts, there came to Philadelphia a number of refugees from the bloody island of Hayti. Their compatriots provided them with means of joining the French on the Tombig- bee. One of the old Haytten slave holding families. which settled in Ala | bama, was preserved by the faithful ness of a slave who concealed them while his companions were murdering and burning. Some of the descendants of these people live in Montgomery. The massacre of the white people was indirectly due to the French revo- lution of 17s9. at which time France controlled the islands. The mulattoes on the island. of which there was a 1 considerable number, demanded of the successful Revolutionists in France that they be accorded the same rights as white French citizens anu this was given them by Marat and his associ- | ates. This was soon discovered to be terrible mistake, and the government withdrew It's original decree. Then the mulattoes united with the black slaves and in the insurrection the white pop ulation was put to the sword.
 To bring about peace the French government abolished slavery in Hayti in 179s. The British thought it advis- able at this juncture to try to wrest the island from the French and a Brit ish expedition was landed. The blacks joined with the French in fighting off this invasion and Toussaint rOuverture the leader of the blacks. was made a French General. In 1901 rOuverture was so far master of the country that he established an independent govern ment.
 Bonaparte. then at the head of the French government. was not pleased at this action and he sent over an army under General Leclarc. The negroes continued the warfare somewhat like that conducted by the Cuban insur- gents against Spain. but Leclerc de- ceived the chiefs into a conference and there with treachery arrested rouver- ture. and other chiefs. rouverture died in prison in France and John G. Whit tier wrote one of his most pathetic poems on the negro's life.
 The blacks claiming that they were the victims of treachery as they no doubt were. renewed the struggle and 1t was characterized by the greatest barbarity on their part. The French were hardly holding their own in the