334 NOTES AND TESTIMONIES.

France, and for the eminent services he had rendered to tlwi.
colony.
 "At the same time, notice was given to arrest all suspect. ed
persons throughout the idand. All those who bad shown bray~s
and enlightened souls, when we claimed for ourselves the right
of men, were the first to be seized. Even the traitors who ha d
most contributed to the success of the French army, by serving.'
as guides to their advanced guard, and by exciting their coi..
patriots to take vengeance, were not spared. At first they des
aired to sell them into strange ,olonies; but, as this plan did no :
succeed, they resolved to transport them to France, where over.
powering labor, the galleys, thains, and prisons, were awaiting,
them.
 Then the white culunists, whose numbers have continually,.
increased, seeing their power sufficiently ertablibhed, discarded..
the mask of dissimulation, openly declared the reestablihment
of slavery, and acted in accordance with their declaration..
They had the impudence to claim as their slaves men who had:..
made themselves eminent by the most brilliant services to their
country, in both the civil and military departments. Virtuous.
and honorable magistrates, warriors covered with wounds, whose,
blood had been poured out Iur Franc e and fur liberty, werq:
compelled to tall back into the lionds of slavery. These colq-,
nists, scarcely established in the poise-sion 4it their land, whose;.
power was liable to he overthrown by the slightest cause, al-
ready marked out and choe< in the distance those whom they4.
determined should be the first victims of their veugeance.
 "The proud qnd liberty-hating faction of the colonists, of 
 those tralli.kers in human fleh, who, since the commeneement.t
 of the revolution, had not .eased to imprr,'nate the successive,
 Governments in France with their plan-, their projQits, their
 atro.;ious anid xtraragant me.mirials, an.d everything tending
 to our ruin, these Iactiou-s nirn, tormenti.d by the recollection.
 of tlrh drsporisni wbkhi they had l rmerly exercised at IIay.ti.
 a pr-y to their low and o'ru-el passion', exertid all their effort;.
 to repoasest themselves of the prey which had escaped froot
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