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 west of Port-au-Prince. At the appointed signal,
 on all sides. Frightful disorder prevailed in the
 the blacks, dreading slavery, pursued the whites
 ae steets, and even searched or them in hiding-
 At the recollecrion of the evils of their past servitude,
 which many of them still bore in their mutilated bod-
 saw in the whites only pitiless masters, and slew them
 ll or carried them away as hostages into the moun-
 A large number of women, children, and old men
 a, church an asylum against the rage of their former
 ho, in spite of the sanctity of the place, were on the
 e acrifiring them as vi.titns to their liberty; but a
 l* ed, and called out lir mercy ; presenting the sa-
 is of the altar, and assuaging the wratlh 'f the assail-
 saved the live- of the trembling and helpless crowd;
 raging men hastened away to find, in le-s hallowed
 .whites on whom they might efllctualli wreak their ter-
 ageance. Boudet, unuitsel to the tirrors that arose on
 d. exhort.d his soldiers to mnirty. My comrades,"
 "you mu-t regard lthl-e people as WIkllow-. citizens; thia
 ign land. it is your ountry. Do not make use of your
 .uncover sour breasts to them, in order that those who
 us may bave the right to ateuge us." By the treachery
 .defender-. bh- obtaint-d possession of Fort Bizoton, by
 his progress might ha e ,been long stopped. Agd was
 Sof' surrendering the it itr elf; but LamartiniBre, in-
 ,at a second instance ol pertidy., called into action, for
 nee, all his resolution. At tlh council-board, he blew
 .brains of a captain of artillery who reflised the keys
ie arsenal. So daring a -troke put an end to indecision
kLaindled courage; he drew alter him tbur thIusand men
.-gateof Leogane, where a red-.Ibt, varied with six pieces
itillery, delu.iled thle town. Death wvas spread in the
..of the FrenIh, who adlau..e'l ,lowly, uncertain of the
mey should m:akt. i' thelir arms. Soon their ardor burned
01b6y rushed aLiro. the mnIt, threw themselves into the
i and preserved it from the threatened conflagration.