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carried. Conflagration completed what the firearms I
dued. Toussaint L'Ouverture passed from eminence to
nence, and surveyed his troops victorious on all sides. A:
more pleasing sight to him was that which he had when he"
at liberty two hundred prisoners or all hues, who were s
ing under a degrading punishment, and who every moment
pected a horrible death from theo ames which were appra
ing the place of their detention.
 Pursuing his advantages, L'Ouverture, in a campaign of f
teen days, totally defeated the English, and brought under
dience the entire province. Among his -,pils were ele
pieces of cannon, with their amniur&tion, and two hundred
owners. As his recompense, Toussaint L'Outrerture recei
from Sonthonax the appointment of cunmanlder-in-chiict' of
army of Saint Domingo, vacant by the departure of Lavea.
The conquering hero was installed at the Cape, in thr press
of the garrison, composed of black troops, and the remains
the white troops. These are the words which he employed
the occasion :-- Citizen Commi.ioneri, I accept the emine
rank to which you have just raised me, only in the hope of
surely succeeding in entirely extirpatiug the enemies of S
Domingo, of contributing to its speedy restoration to provperi
and of securing the happinrs, of its inhahitant.?. If to fu
the difficult taik which it ilupoe, it sudlil.rid 1i wi.h the go
of the island, and tto eir,.t it, in all that depln'iJ on me, I ho
that, with the aid of the Divine Being,. I shall 4ucccrd.
tyrants are cast down on the earth, they will no more def
the places where the standard of liberty and equality ought
float alone, and where the sacred rights of man ought to
recognized.
 Officers and soldiers, if there is a compensation in the seven
labors which I am about to enter on, I -hall lind it in the satii
faction of commanding brave soldiers. L.t tl he sired fire
liberty animite us, and let us nce-ir tak,- rL ) p.:, until we ha
prostrated the Ioe."
 Lofty now was the position ofToussaint L'Ouverture. GI



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