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 perfidy, the proclamation of the First Consul, in which he said
 to us, You are all equal and free before God and the Repub-
 lie;' such was his declaration, at the same time that his private
 instructions to General Leclerc were to rebstablish slavery.
. "The greater part of the population, deceived by these fal-
lacious promises, and for a long time accustomed to consider it-
self as Fren h, submitted without resistance. The Governor so
little expected the appearance of an enemy that he had not
even ordered his generals to resist in case of an attack being
made; and, when the armament arrived, he himself was on
a journey toward the eastern coast. If some few generals
did resist, it was owing only to the hostile and menacing man-
ner in which they were summoned to surrender, which com-
pelled them to respect their duty, their honor, and the present
circumstances.
 After a resistance of some months, the Governor-General
yielded to the pressing entreaties and the solemn protestations
of Leclere, that he intended to protect the liberties of every
one, and that France would never destroy so noble a work.'
On this footing, peace was negotiated with France; and the
Governor Toussaint, laying aside his power, peaceably retired
to the retreat he had prepared for himself.
 Searcely had the French extended their dominion over the
whole island, and that more by roguery and deceit than by force
of arms, than they began to put in execution their horrible sys-
tem of slavery and destruction.
 To hasten the accomplishment of their projects, merce-
nary and Machiavellian writers fabricated fictitious narratives,
and attributed to Toussaint designs that he had never enter-
tainrd. While he was remaining peaceably at home, on the
failh of solemn treaties, he was seized, loaded with irons, drag-
ged away with the whole of his family, and transported to
France. The whole of Europe knows how he ended his unfor-
tunate career in torture and in prayer, in the dungeon of the
Chateau de Joux.
 Such was the recompense reserved for his attachment to