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Rochambeau (search for this): chapter 24
ere chained to rocks in desert islands,--others in marshes, and left to be devoured by poisonous reptiles and insects. Rochambeau sent to Cuba for bloodhounds. When they arrived, the young girls went down to the wharf, decked the hounds with ribbon his body back to France. Napoleon met her at Bordeaux, saying, Sister, I gave you an army,--you bring me back ashes. Rochambeau --the Rochambeau of our history — left in command of eight thousand troops, sent word to Dessalines: When I take you, Iom fort to fort, and finally shut him up in Samana. Heating cannon-balls to destroy his fleet, Dessalines learned that Rochambeau had begged of the British admiral to cover his troops with the English flag, and the generous negro suffered the boastethink of the negro's sword. And if that does not satisfy you, go to France, to the splendid mausoleum of the Counts of Rochambeau, and to the eight thousand graves of French. men who skulked home under the English flag, and ask them. And if that d
Calhoun (search for this): chapter 24
h could she do in sixty years? And Europe, too, would lend you money, but she will not lend Hayti a dollar. Hayti, from the ruins of her colonial dependence, is become a civilized state, the seventh nation in the catalogue of commerce with this country, inferior in morals and education to none of the West Indian isles. Foreign merchants trust her courts as willingly as they do our own. Thus far, she has foiled the ambition of Spain, the greed of England, and the malicious statesmanship of Calhoun. Toussaint made her what she is. In this work there was grouped around him a score of men, mostly of pure negro blood, who ably seconded his efforts. They were able in war and skilful in civil affairs, but not, like him, remarkable for that rare mingling of high qualities which alone makes true greatness, and insures a man leadership among those otherwise almost his equals. Toussaint was indisputably their chief. Courage, purpose, endurance,--these are the tests. He did plant a state s
Pierre Toussaint (search for this): chapter 24
Toussaint L'ouverture. lecture delivered in New York and Boston, December, 1861. Ladies anhe midst of the colony. It is believed that Toussaint, unwilling himself to head the movement, washe Little Corporal, and wander in the camp. Toussaint also never could bear a uniform. He wore a eur! That was in 1815. Twelve years before, Toussaint, finding that four of his regiments had deseWe do not come to make you slaves; this man Toussaint tells you lies. Join us, and you shall havelendidly equipped troops, and saw, opposite, Toussaint's ragged, ill-armed followers, he said to hifer a man since the Crusades is, You lie. Of Toussaint, Hermona, the Spanish general, who knew him ravelling in the depths of the woods to meet Toussaint, when he was met by a messenger, and told th and the girl saved her lover. In this tomb Toussaint was buried, but he did not die fast enough. lanned for a tomb, as he had planned that of Toussaint, and there he whined away his dying hours in[21 more...]
J. Murray Howe (search for this): chapter 24
cities. One half of the slaveholders were Republicans, in love with the new constellation which had just gone up in our Northern sky, seeking to be admitted a State in this Republic, plotting for annexation. The other half were loyalists, anxious, deserted as they supposed themselves by the Bourbons, to make alliance with George III. They sent to Jamaica, and entreated its Governor to assist them in their intrigue. At first, he lent them only a few hundred soldiers. Some time later, General Howe and Admiral Parker were sent with several thousand men, and finally, the English government entering more seriously into the plot, General Maitland landed with four thousand Englishmen on the north side of the island, and gained many successes. The mulattoes were in the mountains, awaiting events. They distrusted the government, which a few years before they had assisted to put down an insurrection of the whites, and which had forfeited its promise to grant them civil privileges. Dese
Holland (search for this): chapter 24
Napoleon sent his army, giving to General Leclerc, the husband of his beautiful sister Pauline, thirty thousand of his best troops, with orders to reintroduce slavery. Among these soldiers came all of Toussaint's old mulatto rivals and foes. Holland lent sixty ships. England promised by special message to be neutral; and you know neutrality means sneering at freedom, and sending arms to tyrants. [Loud and long-continued applause.] England promised neutrality, and the black looked out on tsts, tear up the roads with cannon, poison the wells, show the white man the hell he comes to make ;--and he was obeyed. [Applause.] When the great William of Orange saw Louis XIV. cover Holland with troops, he said, Break down the dikes, give Holland back to ocean ; and Europe said, Sublime When Alexander saw the armies of France descend upon Russia, he said, Burn Moscow, starve back the invaders ; and Europe said, Sublime!! This black saw all Europe marshalled to crush him, and gave to hi
Maitland (search for this): chapter 24
rker were sent with several thousand men, and finally, the English government entering more seriously into the plot, General Maitland landed with four thousand Englishmen on the north side of the island, and gained many successes. The mulattoes werr the first time, and almost the last, the island obeys one law. He has put the mulatto under his feet. He has attacked Maitland, defeated him in pitched battles, and permitted him to retreat to Jamaica; and when the French army rose upon Laveaux, tim well, said, He was the purest soul God ever put into a body. Of him history bears witness, He never broke his word. Maitland was travelling in the depths of the woods to meet Toussaint, when he was met by a messenger, and told that he was betray on, and met Toussaint, who showed him two letters,--one from the French general, offering him any rank if he would put Maitland in his power, and the other his reply. It was, Sir, I have promised the Englishman that he shall go back. [Cheers.] Le
Julius Caesar (search for this): chapter 24
ty, and the black looked out on the whole civilized world marshalled against him. America, full of slaves, of course was hostile. Only the Yankee sold him poor muskets at a very high price. [Laughter.] Mounting his horse, and riding to the eastern end of the island, Samana, he looked out on a sight such as no native had ever seen before. Sixty ships of the line, crowded by the best soldiers of Europe, rounded the point. They were soldiers who had never yet met an equal, whose tread, like Caesar's, had shaken Europe,--soldiers who had scaled the Pyramids, and planted the French banners on the walls of Rome. He looked a moment, counted the flotilla, let the reins fall on the neck of his horse, and, turning to Christophe, exclaimed: All France is come to Hayti; they can only come to make us slaves; and we are lost! He then recognized the only mistake of his life,--his confidence in Bonaparte, which had led him to disband his army. Returning to the hills, he issued the only procla
Louis Napoleon (search for this): chapter 24
If I stood here to-night to tell the story of Napoleon, I should take it from the lips of Frenchmen,member Macaulay says, comparing Cromwell with Napoleon, that Cromwell showed the greater military gehe never saw an army till he was forty; while Napoleon was educated from a boy in the best military d. The Napoleon blood is very sensitive. So Napoleon resolved to crush Toussaint from one motive o? Go home and learn it! Then, again, like Napoleon,--like genius always,he had confidence in hisie. From this dungeon he wrote two letters to Napoleon. One of them ran thus:-- Sire, I am a Frealm Sire, of your mercy grant me justice. Napoleon never answered the letters. The command. anwed him five francs a day for food and fuel. Napoleon heard of it, and reduced the sum to three. Td. Pauline carried his body back to France. Napoleon met her at Bordeaux, saying, Sister, I gave y been able to root it up. I would call him Napoleon, but Napoleon made his way to empire over bro[15 more...]
Phocion (search for this): chapter 24
ese: My boy, you will one day go back to St. Domingo; forget that France murdered your father. 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. You think me a fanatic to-night, for you read history, not with your eyes, but with your prejudices. But fifty years hence, when Truth gets a hearing, the Muse of His tory will put Phocion for the Greek, and Brutus for the Roman, Hampden for England, Fayette for France, choose Washington as the bright, consummate flower of our earlier civilization, and John Brown the ripe fruit of our noonday [thunders of applause], 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, Toussant L'Ouverture. [Long-continued applause.]
Cervantes (search for this): chapter 24
ity from our land,--may raise into peaceful liberty the four million committed to our care, and show under democratic institutions a statesmanship as far-sighted as that of England, as brave as the negro of Hayti! So much for the courage of the negro. Now look at his endurance. In 1805 he said to the white men, This island is ours; not a white foot shall touch it. Side by side with him stood the South American republics, planted by the best blood of the countrymen of Lope de Vega and Cervantes. They topple over so often that you could no more daguerrotype their crumbling fragments than you could the waves of the ocean. And yet, at their side, the negro has kept his island sacredly to himself. It is said that at first, with rare patriotism, the Haytien government ordered the destruction of all the sugar plantations remaining, and discouraged its culture, deeming that the temptation which lured the French back again to attempt their enslavement. Burn over New York to-night, fi
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