[O] The history of the Revolution in St Domingo is not generally understood in this country. The result of the instantaneous emancipation of the slaves, in that island, by an act of the Conventional Assembly of France in the month of February, 1794, settles the controversy between the _immediatists_ and _gradualists_. 'After this public act of emancipation,' says Colonel Malenfant, who was resident in the island at the time, 'the negroes _remained quiet_ both in the South and in the West, and _they continued to work upon all the plantations_.' 'Upon those estates which were abandoned, _they continued their labors_, where there were any, even inferior agents, to guide them; and on those estates, where no white men were left to direct them, they betook themselves to the planting of provisions; but upon _all the plantations_ where the whites resided, the blacks _continued to labor as quietly as before_.' 'On the Plantation Gourad, consisting of more than four hundred and fifty laborers, _not a single negro refused to work_; and yet this plantation was thought to be under the worst discipline and the slaves the most idle of any in the plain.' General Lacroix, who published his 'Memoirs for a History of St Domingo,' at Paris, in 1819, uses these remarkable words: 'The colony marched, _as by enchantment_, towards its ancient splendor; _cultivation prospered_; every day produced perceptible proofs of its progress. The city of the Cape and the plantations of the North rose up again visibly to the eye.' General Vincent, who was a general of a brigade of artillery in St Domingo, and a proprietor of estates in that island, at the same period, declared to the Directory of France, that 'every thing was _going on well in St Domingo_. The proprietors were in peaceable possession of their estates; cultivation was making rapid progress; _the blacks were industrious, and beyond example happy_.' So much for the horrible concomitants of a general emancipation! So much for the predicted indolence of the liberated slaves! Let confusion of face cover all abolition alarmists in view of these historical facts! This peaceful and prosperous state of affairs continued from 1794, to the invasion of the island by Leclerc in 1802. The attempt of Bonaparte to reduce the island to its original servitude was the sole cause of that sanguinary conflict which ended in the total extirpation of the French from its soil.--[Vide Clarkson's 'Thoughts on the Necessity of Improving the Condition of the Slaves in the British Colonies,' &c.] SECTION VI. THE AMERICAN COLONIZATION SOCIETY IS NOURISHED BY FEAR AND SELFISHNESS.