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Governor Garcia immediately embarked for Cuba with the remaining Spanish civil and military authorities. Rule of Toussaint l'Ouverture. Exodus of whites. Capture of Santo Domingo by French. War with negroes. Government of Ferrand. Incursion of Dessalines. Insurrection of Sanchez Ramirez. Reestablishment of Spanish rule. Proclamation of Colombian State of Spanish Haiti. Conquest by Haiti.
General Vincent, leaving the south of the island in a state of perfect tranquillity, had arrived to enjoy his honours in the presence of L'Ouverture and his family. Madame Dessalines had come over from Saint Marc. As Afra was of the party, Monsieur Pascal had found it possible to leave his papers for a few hours. Toussaint had caught as many fish as if he had been Paul himself.
"The right of love," he replied, following till both were seated on the very verge of the water. "Can you suppose that I do not see your disappointment when L'Ouverture opens his dispatches, and there is not one of that particular size and fold which makes your countenance change when you see it?
This was a theme which Madame L'Ouverture loved to dwell on, and especially when listened to as now. The Congo chief and his wife hung upon her words, and told in their turn how their youth had been spent at home how they had been kidnapped, and delivered over to the whites.
"I want to know what you think," exclaimed Madame L'Ouverture, as they emerged from a shaded walk upon a grass plot, on which the light lay, clear and strong "I want to ask you" and as she spoke, she looked round to see that no one was at hand "whether you do not think that General Vincent loves Aimee." "I think he does. I suspected it before, and to-day I am sure of it." "And are not you glad?"
"Yes; just as L'Ouverture told the mulattoes in the church at Cap that, from the other side of the island, his eye would be upon them, and his arm stretched out, to restrain or punish. He almost reached Bonaparte's strain there." "I like my father's words the best, because all understood and believed what he said.
As L'Ouverture rode from Le Dondon to Cap Francais, followed by a guard of three hundred and fifty horse, he was greeted by the inhabitants with the profoundest respect. Only in by-places, or from the depths of some wood, did a few voices sing, in negro language, the new song which was spreading over the island in praise of August, exhorting to patience and peace till August.
Godwin, in his admirable Lectures on Colonial Slavery, says: "Can the West India islands, since their first discovery by Columbus, boast a single name which deserves comparison with that of Toussaint L'Ouverture?" If we are willing to see and believe, we have full opportunity to convince ourselves that the colored population are highly susceptible of cultivation. St.
I know their ways, their countenances, and their gestures. I saw they were gloomy and angry; and I found out that it is with L'Ouverture. They were plotting mischief, I am certain." "But why so suddenly? why to-night?" "So we thought at first; and we went to rest, intending to tell L'Ouverture to-morrow. But the more we thought and talked about it, the more uneasy we grew.
He is devoted to Bonaparte " "What of that?" said Madame L'Ouverture, after a pause. "He is devoted to you also. And are you not yourself devoted to France and to Bonaparte? Do we not pray together for him every day of our lives?" "Remember, Margot, to pray for him every day, as long as you live, if I am separated from you by death or otherwise.
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