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Updated: September 21, 2025
"That character of consistency will be purchased at a price too dear; at the cost of your characteristic of mercy, Toussaint of reverence for human life. You will be ranked with Dessalines, if you keep up, for four months, the disturbance and devastation of war, when every one knows that your end will be as certainly gained after these four months have been spent in peace.
Never was sick man more impatient to be strong than Dessalines. Genifrede regarded him as the pillar of the cause, on account of his uncompromising passion for vengeance; and his wife herself counted the days till he could be again abroad at the head of his forces. When not in attendance upon him, Genifrede spent the hours of daylight at the station on the height.
Those who dared to look in her face saw that the fires of vengeance were consuming all that was womanish in Deesha's nature. She was the soldier to whom, under Dessalines, the successful defence of Le Zephyr was mainly owing. Dessalines gave the orders, and superintended the arrangements, which she, with a frantic courage, executed.
"You do not know I myself do not know," said Genifrede, hurriedly, to Madame Dessalines, "what might happen what I might be tempted to do. You know you have read what some nurses did in the plague at Milan in the plague in London in the night with wet cloths " "Do not speak of it. Stay here, Genifrede. I can do without you."
Dessalines, however, kept his eye upon him, and his piece in readiness to shoot him down, on the first evidence of treachery. Another doubt was as to the foe they had to contend against.
"I am not such a man of blood as you, Dessalines. I have never given up the hope of accommodation and peace. It is strange, when the great men on both sides profess such a desire for peace, that we must see this breach made, nobody can tell why." "Why, my good fellow!" exclaimed Dessalines, staring into his face, "surely you are talking in your sleep!
The old man was, indeed, lingering near, preferring the chance of a word from L'Ouverture even to supper and wine within. He was ready enough to tell his story: that he lived as butler at General Dessalines'; and, that though master and servant had changed places, he liked the new times better than the old.
"Papalier and Madame Dessalines cannot exist in one house." "And therefore must this deputation be dismissed early in the morning, if there were no other reasons. Notice must be carried to them with their coffee, that I am awaiting them with my replies. Those delivered, negotiation is at an end, and we must act. My foes have struck the blow which unties my hands."
He did not know, and he wished not to know even where he was whether with the Bellairs, or training his soldiers elsewhere for further warfare. Dessalines had never submitted; and while this was the case, it was obviously prudent for those who had made terms to know nothing of any plans of his to which they might wish success.
"In council one must speak plainly," replied Dessalines. "I hope Monsieur Pascal agrees with me; for doubtless certain affairs of the whites will be in question, with regard to which they may be uncivilly spoken of. You all know that, in my opinion, they ought every one to have been done with some time ago. As that was not effected, the next best, policy is to let them die out.
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