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 TOl88AINT L'OUVERTURE. 186

 did you not undertake for liberty ? Your masters
 t to flight; the English humiliated by defeat; dis-
 S ished'; a land of slavery purified by fire, and re-
 pore beautilhl than ever under liberty; these are your
 pad these the- fruits or your labors; and the foe wishes
 both out of' our hands. Already have you hlrl tracts
 pairi; but for a traitor, Port-au-Prince would be only a
 ruins; but Ldogane, Fort-Dauphin, the Cape, that op-
 ,pital of' the Antilleo, exist no longer; you have carried
 bhere consuming lires, the dambeaux of our liberty. The
.-.our enemies have troddiu only on ashes; their eyes
keountered nothing but smoking rnins, which you have
 with their blxo. This ,1 t he road by which they have
 .u. What do thyi hop.- lor ? Have we nt all the
 of victory ? Not for ithir c.untryv, not for liberty do
Sht. but [to -erve the hatrrid and the ab-iition of the Con-
l.enemy, mine btecauz: hIne is sours their lbodie are not
jted by the purnihment.A nf i.:ritud.-; ihlir wives and
ehhildren are not near their i'amp), anid the nrat s of their
Pare b' ond the ocean. This -Lky, thtn- mountains, these
|all are strange to them' What do I say ? As soon as
Oeat.he the same air as we, their bravery sinks, their cour-
eparts. Fortune eemnl to have rle~brred them as victim
tur hand-. Those whom the sword spares will be struck
Lby an av cn gnF climate. Their bones will be scattered
g these mountains and ro, k-, ;ud tossed about by the
r of our sea. N ver monr will they behold their native
k ever mor- will therv rei:--ive the tender embraces of
.:wives, their sisters, and their motlhrs; and liberty will
;pver their tomb."
lhis side, Ilolhamheau, too murh nacusrtimed to treat the
 ugs with pride and contempt nt--vertlIh.le-, thought it pru-
Io encourage his men bh tiellin them that this day would
ttheir glory to the highest pitch, since there would be no
tof the world aLih would not be a witness of their tri-
;: that the TAber. the Nile, and the Rhine, where they had
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