VIII.
Let us look at France: she had grown desperate in her revolutionary fever; had risenen masseagainst the powers of Europe, and had beaten them back. Dugommier even had carried the war across the Pyrenees, and his soldiers, like demons, shouting theça-ira, threatened Spain.The Convention at Paris on the 4th of February, 1794, confirmed and proclaimed theFREEDOMof all the slaves![32]—news of which came slowly across the Atlantic, and reached the ears of Toussaint upon the heights of Dondon.
FOOTNOTES:[32]Biographie Universelle. Art. Toussaint L.
[32]Biographie Universelle. Art. Toussaint L.
[32]Biographie Universelle. Art. Toussaint L.