TOUSSAINT L'OUTERTURE.


 Sto ashes the plantations of LMogane. This day brought
 ligenre that Sans-Souci was in arms at Vallibre; the next,
 Noil had seized Dondon and Sylla Plaisance. You have
 that Maraya raises the country around Port-de-Paix?"
 No; but a band ol insurgents is spreading terror in the island
 Tortue." More lamentable still were the narratives which
 had to give, how their brothers, their wives, their children,
 been nmasacred with an incredible refinement of cruelty.
 The general alarm was exaggerated by the colonists, who,
 rgetful of the 4hare they had had in causing it, and that but
 4r them there would have been no ecdquest of the island, no
 aViolation oft oaths, no intention of restoring slavery, accused
 ius is the custom of such men) their destiny, the Government,
 Heaven, every obj,-.;t but the-mselves, the real sources of all
 these evil. Hearen, then," they saidl-," has not ceased to
r.erseeute uq; have we no:t suffered enough during ten years of
BLruile and misery ? Shall iwe always be driven into flight, or
'0be massareJl by our Irxrociout slat.e? \ Was there ever a simi-
'"tlar sucues.sion of' r-eeie-rt and nisfotrtunes?' Are we not the
i:,.most uulrtunate of men ? Our slave.; are before our eyes
ticindling incendiary torh-es, and twin: have we seen our plan-
r.-ations and our towns burned to the ground. Why does not
the Government a<t with decision ?' Why leave us to certain
!"and speedy destruction ? Then they invoked the aid of tho
Black chil-f who remained attached to their party, and who
i-:replied to them only by a fierce siltene or by dissimulation.
"But always allowing themrlves to be borne away by ven-
tgeance, they surrounderl the Captain-G neral with their perni-
c' ous counnelk. and he, instead of employing clemency and
 .:ildness, made use only of arms and punishments. In the
cities scaffolds were raised which were bathed in the blood of
i-the blacks. They even executed women and children, whose
';only crime was that they had brothers, fathers, or husbands,
a 'mong the revolter-; they were accused of corresponding with
I' them, the ptniltvy of i:h intercourse was death. Port-au-
-P"rince, in 'onsrcrnation at the ravages of Lamour de Rance,