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affranchis agent André Rigaud appointed Ardouin arms army arrested arrived arrondissement Artibonite Assembly authority Beauvais became blacks and mulattoes Boyer Britain Cap-Français Cap-Haitien cause Cayes Christophe citizens Civil Commissioners colonists colony colored command Commander-in-Chief compelled consequence Constitution Croix-des-Bouquets d'Haiti death December decree defeated Dessalines Domingue Dominican elected English Executive Faustin Soulouque foreign former France French Geffrard Gonaives granted Haitian Government Haitian History History of Haiti independence inhabitants insurrection island Jacmel January Jérémie l'Anse-à-Veau Laveaux leader Leclerc Léogane liberty Louis man-of-war March ment military mulattoes nation natives Nissage Saget October once peace peasants Pétion Petit-Goave plantations Polvérel Port Port-au Port-au-Prince Port-de-Paix possession President of Haiti province provoked Republic Rochambeau Roume Saint Saint-Domingue Saint-Marc Salnave Santo Domingo Senate sent slavery slaves soldiers Sonthonax Soulouque Southern Spain Spaniards Spanish portion Spenser St struggle taking territory tion took Toussaint Louverture town treaty United vaudou whilst whites
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Page 58 - I would call him Cromwell, but Cromwell was only a soldier, and the state he founded went down with him into his grave. I would call him Washington, but the great Virginian held slaves. This man risked his empire rather than permit the slave-trade in the humblest village of his dominions.
Page 56 - I to tell you the story of Washington, I should take it from your hearts — you, who think no marble white enough on which to carve the name of the Father of his country. But I am to tell you the story of a Negro, Toussaint L'Ouverture, who has left hardly one written line.
Page 56 - I here to tell you the story of Washington, I should take it from your hearts, — you, who think no marble white enough on which to carve the name of the Father of his Country.
Page 57 - I would call him Napoleon, but Napoleon made his way to empire over broken oaths and through a sea of blood. This man never broke his word. I would call him Cromwell, but Cromwell was only a soldier, and the State he founded went down with him into his grave. I would call him Washington, but the great Virginian held slaves.
Page 57 - Some doubt the courage of the Negro. Go to Hayti and stand on those fifty thousand graves of the best soldiers France ever had, and ask them what they think of the Negro's sword.
Page 57 - Englishmen, — the best blood of the island. And with it he conquered what? Englishmen, — their equals. This man manufactured his army out of what ? Out of what you call the despicable race of negroes, debased, demoralized by two hundred years of slavery, one hundred thousand of them imported into the island within four years, unable to speak a dialect intelligible even to each other. Yet out of this mixed, and, as you say, despicable mass he forged a thunderbolt and hurled it at what ? At the...
Page 57 - Cromwell manufactured his own army — out of what? Englishmen — the best blood in Europe. Out of the middle class of Englishmen — the best blood in the island. And with it he conquered what? Englishmen — their equals. This man manufactured his army, out of what? Out of what you call the despicable race of negroes, debased, demoralized by two hundred years of slavery; one hundred...
Page 58 - Brown the ripe fruit of our noonday, then dipping her pen in the sunlight, will write in the clear blue, above them all, the name of the soldier, the statesman, the martyr, TOUSSAINT L'OUVERTURE.
Page 57 - Europe. Cromwell manufactured his own army ; Napoleon at the age of twenty-seven was placed at the head of the best troops Europe ever saw. They were both successful; but, says Macaulay, with such disadvantages, the Englishman showed the greater genius. Whether you allow the inference or not, you will at least grant that it is a fair mode of measurement. Apply it to Toussaint. Cromwell never saw an army...
Page 187 - The material interests of the three countries, however, are largely involved in the restoration and preservation of peace between the contending parties in St. Domingo. France is a creditor of the Government of the Emperor Soulouque to a large amount. She cannot hope for a discharge of her debt when the resources of his country, instead of being developed by pacific pursuits and in part, at least, applied to that purpose, are checked in their growth and wasted in a war with a conterminous state.