TOUSSAINT L'OUVERTURl.


 Together. Suffering deserves compassion even when it
 Sot, command respect. Therefort', I Ir-ae Rigaud to his
 urane, withnur commenting on hi, guilt in joining Leelelr's
 ding enterpri'.:. Riigaw ll anr] 'ou-saint, the first a man
 :olor, the s:cilnd a negro, but ttr your skin, or rather but ior
Mean prejudice against ..our skin, you would not have come
jour present unhappy counlition. You are dark in hue, there-
tie are you p;ric'cuted. Di-)tirnuihed representatives of your
!spective race-, other art still men who deal in the like of you
Ki they deial in pig', in poultry, in focks, and in herds, and
&ere are oth,-rs wtho jiisti.'y this traffic in human flesh on the
around that your .Ip.-rmnis i.ontains a coloring-matter of a
i~iewhat deet-per ihalh- than their own. Yes, to this issue the
g estion i'ojmi dtt lat Low long. 0 r e:nan, shall so patent
bld limi.y a pr.-t.\t prrevail f A brown i.,o-plexion, i commonly
called white, in-Liresi and jumtitfi pr-onal immunity and per-
Woal freerk,ni; a rather detp.r brown, ani a ..omplexion of a
hmewhat sable tin-e, in,'ire ;ani jan ititrs the l %- of personal
bnerty, and therein the' lo-u iof all the rights, privileges, and
powsibilities of manh.,:.l. Nay, ni.-re; the rurmer may buy and
spil,oppret.s, nainm, mulilate, brad, scourge, imprison, and even
kil the latter; and that, too, not only with perfect impunity,
but with all the' high bearing of unquestionable right. The re-
htion of mna-t.-r and -lai,. when reduced to its last link, is the
ealation ol simply uor, or lies in the hues of the skin, of which
tbe varietitk' are -so very nlin-rous, and whikh extend from the
Ilr Circaian to the raven-black negro. Where, in this mi-
autely graduated scale, is the point at which liberty ends, and
javery begins? Anid who has fixed that point? And on what
pathority In trulh, rlatery in its origin and in its essence is
simply man-.teal;ng, i. rubbler cel'the c.ry worst kin1l; it is the
irong preyinr- ,in ithl. w-ak ; ii r the law of' the blulige:on, the
E"ionet, the i;tt.-r, Ith- prin-n. th. hlip, the gallows. Dona-
te, in car~in. u.ll' Touit.a;nit L'Ouivrtlre, did no more than
1hi Afician prot.'l, lt-s in p-wner did leobre him, and, alas! con-
inte to do to the present hour. One and all, he as well as