AFRICA’S CONTRIBUTION TO
AMERICA’S STATESMANSHIP!
Toussaint L’Ouverture (Copyrighted 1920—“The Slave.”
“It is my desire that liberty and
equality shall reign in St. Domingo.
I am striving to this end.”
This was the dominant note in all
the acts of the great African, ‘tome
authoritiess date his birth May 20,
1743. From his Christian name, the
French for All Saints, November 1,
All Saints’ day, may have been the
day of his birth on the island, that
Columbus set foot upon December 6,
1492 and named Hispaniola, notwith
standing the natives called it then the
name it bears now, Haiti, the land of
the mountains.
His parents were stolen from Af
rica and made slaves on the estate
of Breda. Like David and Moham
med, Toussaint tended flocks. Later
he became the coachman and finally
the steward of the sugar house. He
married the widow Susan and to them
was born Isaac. She already had a
son, Placide. Toussaint’s master was
very kind, regarding him more
as a companion than a slave. His
favorite books were Epictetus. Plu
tarch, Military Memoirs and Abbe
Ravnall. Having been taught to read
and write by an old Negro, he also
learned the healing processes of cer
tain herbs and won an enviable repu
tation nursing and curing the sick.
The Classes of Society.
May B, 1789, began the French Rev
olution, proclaiming Liberty, Mater
nity and Equality. The echoes of this
were heard in St. Domingo. Here be
sides the Indians were the whites, the
blacks and the mulattoes, children oC
white fathers and slave mothers.
South of the United States of North
America these people are called col
ored. This term is used in the United
States as a polite designation of Ne
groes or those of Negro extraction de
spite the slightness of the blood mix
ture.
The colored people were free, how
ever, they enjoyed no political rights
and were discouraged from entering
the professions of law, medicine or
theology. If a mulatto struck a white
person even in self-defense, the law
allowed his hand to be cut off. Many
were wealthy and were educated in
France. The population of this
French colony at the time of the
French Revolution, according to some
authorities, was 500,000 Negro slaves,
35,000 mulattoes, and less than 59,000
Whites. There were some free blacks.
They or their forbears had purcna-ed
themselves.
Mulattoes Seek Political Rights.
The mulattoes began to desi-e po
litical rights. One of their number,
Julian Raymond, in the National As
sembly at Paris, May 14, 1791, said:
“The men of our class possess at
least one-third of the lands and one
fourth of the slaves of the colony.
We can guarantee the colony against
rebellion of the slaves.” The mulattoes
,, contributed a large sum to finance the
revolution and the National Assembly
decreed them equal rights Mav 15,
1791, but reversed themselves at the
instigation of Ramave, representing
that the white would be in jeonardy
under the proposed change.
However, the Legislative A- embly
with the sanction of Louis XIV. April
4, 1792, decreed the mulattoes equal
rights. The colonists still oppo-ed.
Voodouism.
If the lot of the mulattoes were
HARDING RECEIVES
COLORED DELEGATION
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nee that he measured up to Presiden
tial stature, in their belief, and that he
would find that their votes would
count heavily for him in the pivotal
states of New York, New Jersey, Con
iecticut, Ohio, Illinois and Indiana.
“For we have more to gain by the
success of the party this year and
more to lose by its failure than any
otehr class of citizens,” Lewis said in
finishing.
Promises Justice to Negroes.
In replying Senator Harding told the
visitors straightaway that if elected he
would see that they got Justice and
equal opportunities.
"Too much doctrine based upon an
other principle has been loosed upon a
war worn world,” he continued.
“Abroad, particularly in Russia, there
has grown up the idea that by some
impossible magic a government can
give out bounty by merely writing
liberty and equality over its door, and
that citizenship need make no de
posit in the bank of the common weal
in order to write checks upon that
bank. Here at home we have had
too much encouragement of the idea
that a government is a something for
nothing institution. But I say that
citizenship is not based upon what
one can get, but upon what one gives.
I say, and I wish that I could speak
through you to all Americans, ‘let’s
serve.’
hard that of the slave was well nigh
unbearable. No provision had been
made tor their relief. Periodically
some escaped to the mountains. They
were called maroons and at intervals,
nightly, would conduct ceremonies in
the plains which, it was said, would
include cannibalism. In reality the
missing slaves that attended these
meetings had been admitted to mem
bership and never again returned to
their masters. Such, in brief, were
the lamed horrors of voodouism ac
cording to the late Hon. Hannibal
Price, one-time Minister Plenipoten
tiary to the United States. The Ma
100ns were the stay of the revolution,
becoming Toussaint’s most trusted
warriors.
The Slaves Strike for Freedom
August 22, 1791 the slaves arose.
Toussaint and some others had pre
viously taken their masters’ family to
the wharf and embarked them on ship
for Baltimore, Md. Then the slaves
applied the torch and sword. One
writer says: “The indulgent master
was sacrificed equally with the in
human. On all alike, young ;md old,
rich and poor, the wrongs of an op
pressed race were indiscriminately
wreaked. Crowds of slaves traversed
the country with the heads of white
children affixed on pikes. These
served as standards of the furious in
surgents. John Francois, a slave of
vast penetration, firm character, and
violent passions not unmingled with
generosity, was the leader of the con
spiracy. His lieutenants were Biussou
and Toussaint. The former of gigan
tic stature and indomitable ferocity
was well fitted to assert his superior
ity; the latter gifted with rare intel
ligence, suave dissimulation, boundless
ambition and heroic firmness, was
fitted to become at once the Romulus
and the Numa of the sable republic in
the Western Hemisphere."
The struggle progressed apace In
favor of self freedmen. A commis
sion was sent from France to test
Julien Raymond’s declaration and to
confinn the mulattoes in their new'y
acquired rights.
The Commission Confirms Slavery
and the Mulattoes' Rights.
The Colonial Assembly sitting in ,i
church, September 20, 1792, captured
the commissioners bag and baggage
with these words of the president:
“Wo are in your hands as a vessel of
clay that you can crush in a moment.
It is then opportune for you to know
now a very important truth badly un
derstood by the Civil National Com
missioners, your predecessors. The
truth recognized finally by the Con
stituent Assembly is: “There can oe
no agriculture in St. Domingo . ithout
slavery; that there has not hern
sought and purchased from the coast
of Africa 500,000 savage slaves to
enter them into the colony in the ca
pacity of French citizens; that their
existence as free men is physically in
compatible with the existence of vour
fellow Europeans.”
The commissioners expressed them
selves in hearty acord with the presi
dent. One commissioner, Sonthonax,
affirmed: “It was never the intention
of the National Assembly to abolish
slavery, and if this assembly, misled,
should attempt its abolition, we would
oppose it with all our power.”
WILLIAM H. DAWLEY. Jr.
A__—
“Under that slogan of good citizen
ship there is no reason why you
should not hold your heads up high
You and your race in America have
the good sense to know that it is
only in a country where merit, capa
city and worth are recognized that
merit, capacity and worth are devel
oped. You and I know, and good Am
ericans, of whatever color, blood or
creed, know that the aspirations of
all men is equal opportunity, and that
no injustice known to man can be
greater than that of the tyranny and
autocracy that labels itself democra
. cy, or Bolshevism or proletariat, and
enslaves all men and their ambition
and their freedom with the iron hand
of mediocrity. The American Negro
has the good sense to know this truth.
He has the clear head and the brave
heart to live It. I proclaim to all the
world the truth which America ought
to know, that he has met the test
and that he did not and will not fail
America.
“I proclaim that America has not
and will not fail the American Negro.”
Braises Patriotism of Negroes.
He reviewed the achievements of
the race in this country upon their
Industry, their disposition toward re
ligion and their patriotism, and noting
especially that the American Negroes
invested one dollar out of every five
they possessed for Liberty bonds, and
that 340,000 Negroes were in the
army, with only one draft dodger ir
the lot. He closed with this pledge
of especial interest to his hearers:
“If I have anything to do with it
there shall be good American obedi
ence to the law. Brutal, unlawful
violence whether it proceeds from
those that break the law or from
those that take the law into their own
hands, can only be dealt with in one
way by true Americans. Fear not
Here, upon this beloved soil you shall
have that justice that every man and
woman of us knows would have been
prayed for by Abraham Lincoln.
Your people, by their restrains, their
patience, their wisdom, integrity, la
bor and belief in God have earned it,
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anil America will bestow It.’
(leneral Pershing made a short talk
also.
Prison.
To dream of living in a prison con
trarily promises consolation for trim
lie. To visit one In your dream Is
a sign of a legacy from some distant
rich relative. To dream of depart
Ing from a prison Is a sign of great
.•omlng happiness. To dream of en
terlng one signifies safety In some ac
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A Square Deal
WARREN G. HARDING ■ —————— CALVIN COGLIDGE
A VOTE FOR THIS TICKET OPENS THE DOOR OF HOPE
Every right and every privilege of Citizenship that the Colored American
Einjoys Came Through the Republican Party. Every Reprisal Against His
Citizenship, Every Constitutional Privilege He Has Lost Was Taken By
the Democratic Party.
The Democratic party, its platform and its candidates have all ignored the
twelve millions of colored citizens, who defended the flag in time of war
and loaned to the Government one-fifth of their wealth.
BEAR THIS IN MIND
Thousands of colored people who have moved into Northern labor centers
from the Democratic South, CAN VOTE, provided they hold the qualifica
tions of other men. The fact that they are colored does not interfere. Tell
them of this privilege, and direct them to their county or city chairman of
the Republican organization, who will be glad to give them full instructions. 4
Republican party ttremocratic party
IGHTS FOR THE RACE! MJANGERS FOR THE RACE!
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| Seward Street Presbyterian Church | >
X Corner Twenty-Sixth and Seward Streets £
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>)• Sunday, 10 a. m., Sunday School, Dr. J. H. Hutten, Super- X
X tendent; 11 a. m., regular morning worship; 8 p. m., praise service, *
X evangelistic.
% Wednesday, 8 p. m., prayer and song service. X
REV. RUSSEL TAYLOR. MINISTER Ij
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! ALLEN CHAPEL A.M.E. CHURCH !
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| SERVICES |
Preaching, 11 a. m.; Sunday school. 1 p. m.;
X Allen Endeavor, 7 p. m.; preaching, 8 p. m. X
X Class meetings Friday nights. ?
.1. A. BROADNAX, P. C. f
Phone South 3475.
Church of St. Philip the Deacon
(EPISCOPAL)
Twenty-first Between Nicholas and Paul Sts.
REV. JOHN ALBERT WILLIAMS, PRIEST
Sunday services, 7:30,10 and 11 a. m. and 8 p. rn.
COME. YOU ARE WELCOME.
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Bethel Baptist
Church
29th and T Sts., South Side 4
SERVICES I
Sunday school, 9:30 a. m. y
Song service, 10:45 a. m. 3
Preaching services, 11 a. 3
l^g ' m.; 8 p. m.
Rev. Thomas A. Taggart, 4
Pastor.
2120 North 27th St.
