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Updated: July 13, 2025
"There is no doubt of L'Ouverture's being wise and right of his having finally assured the most unwilling of the inhabitants of their security, and his stern justice. There is no doubt that L'Ouverture is right." "I could not have believed," said the abbess, "that my daughter would have required a justification of anything done by L'Ouverture." "Nor I," said Euphrosyne, sighing.
The first combined attack, when Maurepas, with his army, joined Rochambeau, and two other divisions met them from different points, was decisively disastrous; and even Vincent began to doubt whether the day of peace, the day of chastisement of L'Ouverture's romance, was so near as he had supposed.
Haitian rule. Duarte's conspiracy. Declaration of Independence. Toussaint l'Ouverture's occupation of Santo Domingo occasioned a new exodus of white families who were fearful of what might happen under negro rule. From the French portion of the island the whites had been emigrating since the first uprisings; a number had fled into the Spanish colony and these now also left.
In answer to Madame L'Ouverture's frequent speculations as to what Leclerc could fix his suspicions on, Toussaint said he was probably supposed to be in communication with Dessalines. He thought so from his never approaching the mornes, in his rides, without finding French soldiers overlooking his proceedings from every point of the hills. He was not in communication with Dessalines.
Fifty-four ships-of-war, carrying probably ten or twelve thousand men." "We have twenty thousand regular troops," cried Dessalines. "The day of the proud French has arrived!" L'Ouverture's calm eye checked his exultation. "Ten or twelve thousand of the elite of the armies of France," said Toussaint, "are sailing along our shores; and large reinforcements may be following.
"What of the attachment of the Assembly to L'Ouverture's person?" asked Christophe. "Every member of it sees that the prosperity of the island is the consequence of the vigorous prosecution of his system; and that there is no security but in its unquestioned continuance.
English Socrates, Plutarch, Cornelius Nepos, etcetera, etcetera. Great mystery hangs over the tale of Toussaint's imprisonment and death. It has been suggested that torture was employed by Bonaparte's aide, Caffarelli, to procure the desired confession; but I do not know that the conjecture is founded on any evidence. As to the precise mode of L'Ouverture's death, there is no certainty.
"There is not a measure of L'Ouverture's which they do not neutralise not a fragment of authority which they will yield. As to friends, if the Consul Bonaparte is our best friend among the Whites, may we be left thus far friendless!" "You mean that he has not answered my father's letters. Monsieur Vincent doubts not that an answer is on the way.
Bellair, therefore, and two of his former fellow bondsmen, cultivated the estate, paying over the fixed proportion of the produce to the public funds. Bellair hastened to lead Madame L'Ouverture's horse round to the other side of the house, where no prickly vegetation was allowed to encroach.
He led her, passive and silent, to the door, where he kissed her hand, saying, for the ear of any one who might be without, "For once, I cannot accompany you further. Tell Madame Dessalines that I hope to pay my respects to her soon." He added, to the servant "See that Julien is at Mademoiselle L'Ouverture's orders, till I need his services myself."
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