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retention of which was indispensable to their safety
saw his star grow pale. Most of his superior officers a
him. Desertion spread through the ranks. On the other
Tohasaint appeared amid his troops, radiant with victory.
brought with him ptcuniarn rnsournus. \ith these, he
uted pay among the soldiers; and so, while supplying
wants, gained their confidence, and ex, it-dl their unthusial
 The two armic sat down nppo.ile each oiher. Skirmidl
began. Then e-rious rn.rr',lr,. took place. At last, iausse
joined, and the revoltirs uflr.-nld a -ignal dJ.li-at. After 4
trial of -Itrngrth, Hi,.audl might Ib troutblit'jime, but he Oil
not be ftormidabeI Driv n to dcrperation ,b his failure
ordered his men to liy w"r t the .ountri, and, to usir his 4
words, to take such steps that -"rbh trlI..s -hnuld hire t
roots in the air." His uld harnib. thintedl 1. war, cickness,.i
age, became Rigaud's sole rtliance. COn t ei-r\ side his ei
was abandoned by the citizens anti the it'i. autroriti.-. 'T
was he reduced to a leader of banditti. He saw his posit
and issued this proclamation,- it was h; la.t nord tol
public: -
 Considering the crisis in which the Dep.artmnnt is, owing
ihe unjust and inhuman war canrrid run against it by the trai
Tous.amnt L'Ouuverture, from lwhom nn o*n.- mu-t ex\pct eit
sair-t or honor, I am ollipgrl, in the pn-ition I holly, to take
ouly meazurec that remain to sa'.: th.: D-pnartment. ..',.,siideri
moreover, that proposals Ibr place. or lor cup.nsi;on of an
directly *.onern the execuriitr pIwer, and that, in all cases
is to the chief f of the armed tbre e of the Department that 1
right belongs of proposing pea.c or urpcnding armn, beca
he ought to seize the moment favorable tIr prpnprals of
kind, which, if made in critical junctures, and ,% those v
have not tho means of putting a stop to the i.- ji, mny imboli
tbi t n-mvy, and L.ause calamities heI would ha, at oded.
 For now a year this war has bet n gc.in_ on ; the popi
 bodies and the pr,.tend, d friends of pea, e hate tak-:-r no a
 to stop its course. At lie present, when the enemy has.