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He was sent to Spain and Portugal, and finally was made commander-in-chief of the French expedition to Haiti, where the famous black rebel, Toussaint l'Ouverture, was heading an uprising of the negroes. Napoleon ordered Pauline to accompany her husband. Pauline flatly refused, although she made this an occasion for ordering "mountains of pretty clothes and pyramids of hats."
Those merciless strifes had, however, somewhat abated under the organizing power of a man, in whom the black race seemed to have vindicated its claims to political capacity. Toussaint l'Ouverture had come to the front by sheer sagacity and force of character.
At this moment our first duty is to our white brethren of this island; in this time of our high excitement, they are full of grief; they are guiltless of this attack upon our liberty; they are as willing as we to live and die under the rule of L'Ouverture: and under the special protection of L'Ouverture, they shall, if they please, live and die.
And the fact illustrates, as nothing else could, the prodigious popularity of the man and the marvelous power of his art. At the répétition générale of Toussaint L'Ouverture the cream of artistic Paris was present. The members of the Comédie Française came in force; Lamartine occupied a stage-box; the house was full of poets, novelists, painters, artists and authors of every description.
I asked L'Ouverture to foretell to me how this would be explained; and he put his hand upon my month, and asked me to kneel down, and pray with him that we might have patience to wait God's own time." "And could you do so?" asked Euphrosyne, with brimming eyes.
In 1791, under the leadership of Toussaint l'Ouverture, the slaves began a long and bloody revolt of their own. Slaves flocked to Toussaint's support by the thousands until he had an army much larger than any that had fought in the American revolution, This revolt became entangled with the French revolution and the European wars connected with it.
Henceforth, the city, the colony, the island, and, after a time, all Europe, rang with the name of Toussaint L'Ouverture. When Toussaint heard the cry from without, he started to his feet; and his hosts rose also, on seeing the fire in his eye brighter than during the deeds of the morning. "The general would address them," said Polverel. "You wish to speak to the people, General Toussaint."
Praise, if you will, the work of a Robert Livingstone or a Jefferson, but to-day let us not forget our debt to Toussaint L'Ouverture, who was indirectly the means of America's expansion by the Louisiana Purchase of 1803." With the freedom of Hayti in 1801 came a century of struggle to fit the people for the freedom they had won.
I have orders to convey you and your family to Cap Francais. No delay! To the boats this moment! You will find your family on board the frigate, or on the way to it." "Do what you will with me; but Madame L'Ouverture is in weak health. Suffer her and my children to remain at home." "Lose no more time. General. March! or we must carry you."
"Madame," she cried, gasping for breath, "do you hear that? Do you know what it is? They have shot General Moyse! Father Gabriel says so. Oh no, no! L'Ouverture never would do anything so cruel." Sister Claire looked at the abbess. "My daughter," said the abbess, "L'Ouverture's duty is to execute justice." "Oh, Genifrede! Poor, poor Genifrede! She will die too. I hope she is dead."
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