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All happened as Garry O'Neil informed us, the Haytians and mutineer blacks of the Saint Pierre's crew being brought up again before the magistrates the week following our arrival home, when, after hearing the additional evidence against them given by Colonel Vereker and the skipper, the six black and mahogany-coloured rascals were committed for trial at the next assizes, which we were told would not be held for another month, on the charge of "piracy and murder on the high seas."
The attitude of the United States authorities toward the Haytians is well illustrated by the following telegram which the United States Acting Secretary of the Navy sent on October 2, 1915, to Admiral Caperton, in charge of the forces in Hayti: "Whenever the Haytians wish, you may permit the election of a president to take place. The election of Dartiguenave is preferred by the United States."
When it was suggested to Douglass that the Haytians were given to revolution as a mode of expressing disapproval of their rulers, he replied that a four years' rebellion had been fought and two Presidents assassinated in the United States during a comparatively peaceful political period in Hayti.
But the Haytians, sir, had evidently had enough of us for that evening, making no further attempts to attack us as the hours wore on.
There was evidently a struggle going on in Colonel Vereker's mind between his desire to do his duty, as he thought, to the dying man, and his natural anxiety to be on deck participating in all the excitement of the chase after the runaway ship and the coming fight with the Haytians, when the black rascals would be called to a final account for all the misery and bloodshed they had caused.
Ostensibly therefore he figured as the champion of emancipation, assuring the Haytians in his proclamation of November 8th, 1801, that they were all free and all equal in the sight of God and of the French Republic: "If you are told, 'These forces are destined to snatch your liberty from you, reply, 'The Republic has given us our liberty: it will not allow it to be taken from us." Of a similar tenor was his public declaration a fortnight later, that at St.
Being so near he prefers waiting for the orders of his Court. House. King's Signature Bill passed, with some amendments. It is to last till the end of the Session. The King's command is to be signified by word of mouth, a very inconvenient mode to a sick man. East Retford for a House. All Columbia is at war again. The Mexicans are urging the Haytians to land 5,000 men in Cuba.
Among other things the evidence showed that on June 12, 1918, under military pressure a new constitution was forced on the Haytian people, one favoring the white man and the foreigner; that by force and brutality innocent men and women, including native preachers and members of their churches, had been taken, roped together, and marched as slave-gangs to prison; and that in large numbers Haytians had been taken from their homes and farms and made to work on new roads for twenty cents a week, without being properly furnished with food all of this being done under the pretense of improving the social and political condition of the country.
That fact occurred to him at length. "They have heard of you, m'sieu' and that you have something new to say to them. We Haytians like new things." Thus, very quietly, almost as though it had been a natural growth of interest, did Simpson's ministry begin. He stepped one evening to the platform that overhung the carpenter's backyard, and began to talk.
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