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Did he not try to instigate the laborers to rise, by persuading
them that I treated them like slaves, and that he had come
to break their chains.t Ought be to have employed such mean
in a country where peate and tranquillity reigned? -ina-
country which was in the power of the Republic '
 If I did oblige my feillow-countrymen to work, it was to teach
them the value of true liberty without lieete ; it was to pre-
vent corruption of' morals; it was for the ge:inral happiness of
the island, for the interest o' the Republic. And I had ef-
fectually succeeded in my undertaking, since there could not be
found in all the colony a single man unemployed, and the num-
ber of beggars had diminished to -uch a degree that, apart
from a f:w in the towns, not a single one was to be found in the
country.
 If Gen. Leclerc's intentions had been good, would he have
received Golartinto his army,and given to him the command of -
the 9th demi-brigade,-a corps that he had raised at the time
that he was chief of battalion ? Would he have employed this
dangerous rebel, who caused pronprirtors to be am.,a>.inaktd in
their own dwelling-plaees; who invaded the town of Mole-
Saint-Nicolas; who fired upon Gen. Clere~aux, %bho Loummand-
ed there; upon Gen. Maurepas and his brigade (numander; ,
who made war upon the laborers of' Jeau-RPIl.,, from the
Afoustiques and the heights of Port-de-Paix ; who carried his-
audacity so far as to oppose me when I marched against him to'.
force him to submit to his .hief, and to retake the territory and .
the town which he had invaded The day that he dared to fire
upon me, a ball tut the plume frn.m my hat ; Bondere, a ph:y*
sician, who accompanied me, was killed at my aide, my aidea-de'
camp were unhorsed. In short, this brigand, after beiqg,
steeped in every crime, conceal-d him.slf in a Iforest; he only.
came out of it upon the arrival of the Frenth squadron. OugI
Gen. Leclrrc to have raised likewise to the rank o' brig
commander another rebel, stalled L'Amour Desrances, who hq
caused all the inhabitants of the Plain of Cul-de-Sac to be t.
Braxinatwd; who u-ged the Iaborers to re%. tl; whu pillaged