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the organs of the law, he has employed every means to
you and toretain you as accomplices. Consult your co
put away all prejudices; you will then easily know that,
'as desired to drive into reolt al men of color, in
make them his partisans and cooperaLors. I need not
you ofthe means he has taken tbr the purpose, and the re
he has employed to deceive you all. You know as well
perhaps better than I, his destructive project is, and all
attempted to put them into execution; he pretended to .
mand blacks and whiles without being willing to be comm
by them. Yet the law is equal for all. Painful expert
ought to have torn from your eyes the eil whi. h hides the l
of the precipice. Give, then, close attention to what you
about to do, and the danger which iyu still run. Reet
the perils and the calamities which threaten you, and haste
prevent them. I am kind, I am human, I open to you-
fatherly arms. Come, all of }'ol; I will revive you all; nop
those of the Sou th an those of the We.t, and of the N1-
who, gained over by Rigaud, have deserted your tiresides,
wives, your children, to place yourse-les at his side. And|
gaud himself,-that ambitious man,-if he had followed theo
vice which I gave him, to submit to his lawful superiors,-wai
he not now be tranquil and peaceful in the bosom of his famij
Would he not be firm and untroubled in the command wii
was intrust.d to Lim n But, nma-tred by deadly pa-sions, 4
gaud has dug a gulf at your ieet; he has laid snares which
could not avoid. He wished to have you as partisans itxk
revolt; and to succeed in his object he has employed falae
and seduction. It' you carefully examine this artful but
impolitic conduct you cannot but declare that Rigaud does 4
love his color, and that he had rather sacrifice it to his pr
and ambition than labor for its happiness by good example tld
wise counsel-. And in truth, c.iizens, the greater number'!
these whom he has mil4.d have perished, cither in battle, orl
the staffold. Must not the iihenr who perri.t in this revolt d
pect a A lilar fate if they abjure not their culpable erri