Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 20, 2025
It was not my father, but Laveaux, who said that the black chief, predicted by Raynal, had appeared. And it was originally said, not as a divine prophecy, but because, in the natural course of things, the redeemer of an oppressed race must arise. Besides, my father says nothing but what he believes; and I suppose Bonaparte did not believe what he was saying." "Do you think not?
The mention of Port Paix carried back his thoughts to the night when he was last there, heavy at heart, assisting his master to escape. "All is ours, now, through him," said Monsieur Polverel, gazing at his guest, "Yes," rejoined Laveaux; "he is the Napoleon Bonaparte of Saint Domingo." "Who is he? who is Napoleon Bonaparte?" asked Toussaint, roused to listen. "I have heard his name.
What has he done?" "He is a young French artillery officer " "A Corsican by birth," interposed Polverel. "Is he really? I was not aware of that," said Laveaux. "That circumstance somewhat increases the resemblance of the cases. His name was known before in connection with the siege of Toulon. But this last achievement is the grand one. He has cleaved the path of the Convention.
From his cell, Laveaux heard in the streets the tramp of horses and of human feet; and from the deck of the Orphee, Polverel watched through his glass the bustle on the wharves, and the putting off of more than one boat, which prepared him to receive news. The news came.
The town of Cap Francais was next morning in a hurry, which attracted the attention of General Laveaux in his prison, and the French commissary, Polverel, on board the vessel in the roads, in which he had taken refuge from the mulattoes, and where he held himself in readiness to set sail for France, in case of any grave disaster befalling the General or the troops.
They have shut up General Laveaux in prison; and the French, without their military leader, do not know what to do next. The commissary has no authority, and talks of embarking for France; and the troops are cursing the negroes, for whose sake, they say, their General is imprisoned, and will soon die of the heats." "We must deliver General Laveaux," said Toussaint.
"If our fresh regiments would only arrive to-day, and help us to wrench the prison keys from the hands of those devils of mulattoes, and let out Laveaux, the colony would be ours before night." As he spoke, he swept the horizon to the north and east with his glass; but no welcome sail was visible.
A boat was sent off, in due form, to bring Commissary Polverel home to Government-House. Toussaint himself went to the prison to bring out General Laveaux, with every demonstration of respect; and all presently wore the aspect of a jour-de-fete. Hour by hour tidings were spread which increased the joy of the French, and the humiliation of their foes.
"Every one knows it every one in Cap. Every one knows that Jean has done with us, and that the Commissary is going home, and that General Laveaux means to be guided in everything by you; and that the posts have all surrendered in your name; and that at Port Paix " "Enough, enough! my boys. Too much, for I see that your hearts are proud."
"Yet I am one," thought he, as the shout of his name and now title reached his ear, distinct, though softened by distance. "I am an appointed minister. It seems as if I were the one of whom I myself have spoken as likely to arise not, as Laveaux says, after Raynal, to avenge, but to repair the wrongs of my colour.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking