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an ambuscade. Thus was manifested the hatred of thbe-
nists against men whom they could not endure to see i
enjoyment of freedom. That hatred was fostered by the
inland by his representative, Leclerc. Of special consequ

but. the step was one of extreme difficulty. Men, whose
sions are excited, and whose future is uncertain, do not e
surrender their arms. Cajolery and mutual distrust were
into action; the result was, that thirty thousand muskets wl
collected and laid up in the common armory. But in the mi
of the operation discontent was displayed, menaces were uttered
sedition was fostrerel, ri-ings took place; the Government wu .
compelled to empluy vigor as well as adroituess. Troops wexl&
set in movement, blacks who were in subjection were employ"*
against others who were ripe for revolt; sonme sullenly gave upi
their arms, others hid them, waiting their opportunity. Fern i
cious bands were formed, who practiced all kinds of atrocities
The disarming succeeded best in the South; in the West it wai
very partial; the colored population, distrustful and disquietejti
especially since the deportation of Rigau.e bvtook themselves tW"
the mountains; then most unjust ind injudiiious severities werpil
exercised; suspicion sufficed for the indflitionu of death; thqi
scafdolds were loadel with vi. tirnm o l' both *xs, and of al agel asi
Several of the wiv~v of the olff:rri of the seventh colonial'
brigade were publicly executed. Artlr capturing Belair, Dead'-
salines slaughtered three hundred blacks and men of color iWa
the vale of the Artibonite, to aventc the death of some E*F
ropean soldiers massacred within the country under his cowr(
mand. Meanwhile, an impression had been obtaining preva ,i
lence that the disarming and orher otfnnsive measures werst:
parts of a system intended to issue in the restoration of slaveryi 
Some imprudent colonists, whom experience of evil had noM:.
taught anything but revenge, uttered in one of their assembli ri
the old maxim, No slaver', no olony." The alarm cautsedi'
thereby was augmented by news that slavery had been restored;
in other French dependencies, and that even the slave-traadj .