| Show TOUSSAINT louverture U OU AND THO REPUBLIC OF HAYTI VII IN the last issue of the broad ax we acquainted our numerous readers with the fact that the great napoleon had firmly decided to re move toussaint from the island of st domingo and it ife i is s now our sad and melancholy duty to record one of the blackest and one of the most treacherous acts ever committed by napoleon or ky by aay any other great warrior according to the orders of napoleon the person of toussaint was ruthlessly seized while he was residing very quietly aud and very peacefully in his home near go nives and two of his chiefs who endeavored to rescue him were killed on the spot and ana a great number of his best friends were at the same time made prisoners and the fate of many of them was waa never known but toussaint himself his wife and all the other oiher members of his family were wen carried at midnight on board the hero man of war then in the harbor which immediately set sail for france and after a short passage of twenty five days the vessel arrived at brest june the loth 1802 and here tous adut biakis bid his wife and family a sad sud ind a long fa farewell revell for that unseen power who rules over the uni ulli ruse and who holds the destinies of both the living and the dead in the hollow of his hand had decreed it it from the begin beginning nin g of I 1 time that poor toussaint should never embrace or gaze upon his faithful and devoted wife and family a again gam family were taken to bayonne but by the orders of napoleon a he was transported to the chateau of boax which is in the east of france and among the jura mountains toussaint being placed in that bleak and dismal region so very different from the tropical climate which he had been accustomed to his sufferings can easily be ima imagined dined but napoleon was not satisfied however with confining to toussaint to the fortress but bat he also issued orders that toussaint should be secluded in a dungeon and denied ev everything athing beyond the plainest necessaries of existence for the first few months of df his confinement toussaint was allowed to be atten attended did pyone by one of his faithful servants who had bad foll followed cyrea him from st domingo but napoleon MY wio 0 delighted in shedding and in wading agin in the blood j of his fellow mami men would note not evon even permit toussaint to be atte attended adeLl by his black s servant ervant A aad na im he was vas left alone in his I 1 wreay d despair it seems a rumor had one abroad that toussaint during A tie the W war ar in st domingo ina ha duried aarle vt a large amount of irea inre 34 in the earth and Boua bonaparte pare sent an officer to interrogate the place where head concealed ea it the e tr easum V toussain 7 W W F M 04 seek abek L on the i after adaa p ff f f a months ir i in m he bai by ai aa i 6 f 1191 11 aw 91 ir his alj jjr IL 04 C his ra s sa fyd sst Sarf 1 peari 0 calfo ssi haht an M it ev eren ingS evenings he PAZ by the orders of napoleon this melancholy termination of his sufferings took place when he was sixty s years of age Tous aines saints famil family y still continued to reside in france but they were removed from bayonne to agen and here one of the younger sons of toussaint died shortly after his father Tous loving wife died on the day of may 1816 in the arms of her two sons isaac and placide after bonaparte had succeeded in removing toussaint from st domingo he instructed general ledere to reduce the colony to a french dependency but the fates would not have it so notwithstanding the fact that napoleon had supplied him with all the troops which he demanded yet he signally failed in his designs and when the general became aware of the fact that he could not carry out napoleons ideas and intentions he began to treat the blacks very cra cruelly elly he issued an order which was anten intended dea to restore them as a dam class to slavery but the order provoked a widespread insurrection Tous saints old friends and gen brals dessalines christophe cle veo veoun ux and others again rose in arms an and d battle after battle was fought and all the resources of european military skill were opposed to the furious onsets of the negroes but all was in vain before october the blacks under the command of dessalines and christophe had succeeded in driving the french out of fort Dau dauphin phing port de paix and many other important positions in the midst of all these troubles and calamities general ledere rendered up his soul to the gods and on the first day dav J of november 1802 his brokenhearted wife pauline bonaparte embarked with his dead body for Rr france ance on the death of general lede ledere rc he was succeeded in the command by gen general eral rochambeau chambeau Bo po who was a determined enemy of the blacks and cruelties cruel ties such as 83 general ledere dere shrunk from am were now employed to assist him in subjugating the natives unoffending negroes were slaughtered by the th thousands ausan d 51 and bloodhounds were imported from ca cuba ba to chase them through the woods but general rochambeau however had a person to deal with who was capable of repaying cruelty with cruelty da oes who had become com mander iu in chief of the blacks was a man mall who to great military talents aua and grest great personal courage added a ferocious and sanguinary disposition on hearing that general ga n rochambeau chambeau Bo had shot blacks blacki at cape babe francois I 1 he selected french officers fro from mamo among ua his prisoners tad bad them shot by way of reprisal aua and to add to the miseries of df the french fench troops the mu mn of the t bothern portion of the island 3 domed ol 01 in in the insurrection in surree ti on and the therah war between france and jiang te mul ped A thid st domingo became e I 1 with 1 Sn glish 1 G I pro i i r 39 n radons bagi began ku while W n A aft f fy ts VS latetia Ba tetia kid 77 i t M t ry Z W 1 V 3 it a co ico I ala g or S 7 f tap w ay A ta kt lc t sam y 2 d UH r H S I 1 N t aris ar A fr Is ya wt I 1 4 I 1 mom e driven iz sa ss ra F afi I 1 mi a farewell toussaint oh farewell thou wast a true a noble an honest and a faithful son of our mother the earth and the material portion of thy earthly tabernacle has crumbled into dust and has become apart a part of the monumental elements of the universe but the spiritual portion of thy corse cone has become an inseparable and an imperishable part of the intellectual sea which encircles the globe using the words of the immortal wendell phillips we would call him napoleon but napoleon made his way to an empire over broken oaths and through a sea of blood but toussaint never broke his word we would call him cromwell but cromwell was waa only a soldier and the state he founded went down with him into his grave we would call him washington but the great virginian held slaves and fifty years hence when truth gets a hearing the muse of history will put phocion for the greeks brutus for the romans hampden for england Ia lafayette fayette for france choose washington as the bright consummate flower of our earlier civilization then dipping her pen in the sunlight will write in the dear clear blue above them all the name of the soldier the statesman the martyr toussaint the end |
