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Show A. LKADEJi PIT SLAVES. ROMANTIO RISE ADD TALL 01" TOU38AINT L'ouvcnTunc. a riinraeter lu lll.lorr XMilrli llu I ur-nUltril ur-nUltril a Thrnia rue 1 aets sn (IrAlnri. Sileon,s Uasa Treatment or His Ureal Oenerat-Ills I nllmsly 1 uil. Thirty yoara ago Tmuaaltit L'Onvcr-hiro L'Onvcr-hiro na u tiamo to coujuro nlth. IoU lint orators described Ills irtnea nnd hU tuius an 1 clto.1 him as nn llltutrloui ixnuiiilo of tho capabilities of Ids rnic A romantic interest 111 nlwnj k attnrh In his name, The fact that for tlfty four pars lio mod lu deeprnt'otskuritj as a ilaioonn lli)llan plantation and tbo iplo charactir of his suhniincnt n hloi o-lients o-lients glvo a tlngo of antique heroism to lis history. I ho Trench colony in Ilajtlwns long moot tho greatest sluo Hurts In th aorld At tho tliuo uf tho Fnnch rco-httion rco-httion thero cro In tho mlony W.OOO a hllos, 2J 030 f reo mnbttow nud 500 000 toes. TL.0 tuulattocs, ininj of whom Jad licen oilncnted In Frince, took nd. runtagoof thuroolntlou mil obtalneil I recogultion nf their illllinl rl,lits 'roin tho Tri ucli assembl) , tho hltos of ilijtlrcfusciltorecognlio tha decision indawtr brokn ont which was toon tomplliatM by an uprising of tho wholo ilu o population On'n ncmornblo nlglit n August, 1701, tho plantations. v,w Sreil and many of tho uhltoa wero mur-lcrvd. mur-lcrvd. Tonss-ilnt lial not at this tlmo no. jnireiUho uamo of IOuierturo. This nerd, moaning "tho opening," was applied ap-plied to him nfUrmird becnuso ho jpeneil a wn) fortliofreoilomof lilsraco through tho chuotio conditions of tho following ears In tlio dreadful wars of tho years following fol-lowing tho uprlsnl of tho lnca his extraordinary ex-traordinary Inllucnco oor hit racound hit military geulns gavo lilm iro-fiul. nencoour nil ollur chiefs. A design of fleeing his raco, which could onl bo iiconpliihed by mal Ing It tho ruling raco of Hnjtl, gradually tool, tbapo lu his mind andforuis tho key noto of his career, I ranee, Bpiln and Kngland each bu high for his alliance, but Franco de ohiod for tho (ncdoin of tho ilaves and bo llnally rangul himself iinuir tin French Hag. It as o ldontly his rloslro to maintain u deslrablo connection with i:uropean power which would jit leni o lilm lit liberty to lo elop Ids j Inns (or Ills own race, but tho ionization cf hla Ide i ruiulreil a illslntercstoil co-operation of which no Uuroicaii go eminent em-inent was cnpible. In n few J una bo hod been rccognlicd by Franco ns comminder In chief of Ibo snnyof Hojtl and wn practically dictator dic-tator of tho islun 1 As n wtcr of Hnjtl bo surronndi-J Mniwlfwlth tho pump ofnprimo, ul though iKrsonally ho rotnlned habits i f io ero simplicity Ho uto oparlngly and ilept little, ilng possoasudof ixtrnor-lln ixtrnor-lln iry poncia of endurnnre In rtlgnlt) of nun nor hi win ontlroly equal to hii po lllnn. Ho cnliniorcil to rocondlo onlllniig races, und his rulov as impartial im-partial und nblo. Hut npolion wiu not tb? to 1. low a diitat ir m a r hlmsi ir Ho i e in armi if mi i i im l ilijli In n itoruslai- nud reduco lli tolony to lubjettluu , Busjiectiug tho trua jmrpeca of tlio ot-podltluu, ot-podltluu, Tousulnt rmtiststl tho louillog of tho uiTay, but finally laid down bis irnts ntuir ho had I sen rsnuml that tlmo was no lubmilon of restoring ilaver) nn t that ho injured th oauso of bis race Iry resistance. lis was still too powerful to bo openly mlied. but lis was iltco)od into the Fn neli ipwrteia nnd was thcuhurrlul on beard a vessel end carried to Franco He hopeil to roost Napoleon aud defm I his oonAuct, but hi landing he was m-sretly m-sretly liurrtwl to n lonely fortress lu the Alps, whero ho rbortly afterward clleil Mnnv wild stories attributing his death to murder fonnd ircilonco at the tlmo, Neglect und tho t linngc from a troptc to tu Alpine cliiiinto doubtloas hastened bis ( nd lly Ids removal the progress of his race was Incalculably retarded WhiloTotisntnlratoandpIcnor Imprisonment Im-prisonment wero still unknnwii, W ails-worth ails-worth wrolo tlio laultfnl sonnet, "Tu Tuussamt I. Outcrturo " His history Is tho subject uf n drama by Lamartliio, snd of n novel, "Tho Hour und tlio Man," b Harriet Martlncau. During Ilia nnttslmaryngltauoululho United Suites be was clll ns n innst llluitrlnru exai.1i loot tho real rapablllUee of b.s race A Ipem by Whltller and an oration ora-tion by eniloll Plitlllrn ooinmemorato his Irtues and his genius Detroit Freo |
