Chapter VIII

Let us look at France: she had grown desperate in her revolutionary fever; had risen _en masse_ against the powers of Europe, and had beaten them back. Dugommier even had carried the war across the Pyrenees, and his soldiers, like demons, shouting the _ça-ira_, threatened Spain. _The Convention at Paris on the 4th of February, 1794, confirmed and proclaimed the_ FREEDOM _of all the slaves!_[32]—news of which came slowly across the Atlantic, and reached the ears of Toussaint upon the heights of Dondon.

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[32] _Biographie Universelle_. Art. Toussaint L.