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j Still later, when -4 Santana, the Liberator," unfur

led the flag of Dominican independence, a paity of

negroes, led by one of Soulouque's black captains,

attacked the neighboring village, with the war cry of

death to the whites." This ominous cry, which has

so often carried terror and destruction to the whites of

Eastern Hayti, sent the frightened inhabitants to

the mountain dells for refuge, but as they fled they

were met near the ruined church by a little band of

horsemen, coming to their rescue. The young leader

unfurled the white cross of Dominica under the light

of their blazing homes, and rallied them to battle in

their own defence. It was a deadly, desperate strife.

They were not many, but they fought hand to hand

with all the cherished bitterness of hostile races, un-

i til the morning the glorious gorgeous morning of the

tropics dawned on the field, and revealed the victory

of the whites. Seventeen white men lay dead or woun

ded, but among them more than tin ice their number

of blacks, and they were dressed for burial, and the

last rites were paid them close beside the ancient

Church of the palm grove, where the lae.t princess of

the red men had been treacherously slain by the Span

iards; where the children of the Spaniard had been

savagely murdered by the Africans. There the children

of the Africans had also paid the blood penalty of

their own and their fatheris deeds. This last act of

this retributive drama of races is a late occurrence.

Happily it has been followed by a truce which is

now consolidating into a liberal and permanent peace

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Wilmington journal. (1853). Wilmington, N.C., 1853-12-16. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn84026536/1853-12-16/ed-1/?sp=4

ReferencesReferencias

Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Wilmington journal, 1853-12-16.