Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1854-12-28

Throughout the Island the blacks and tn
whites mingled together amicably all set abou
repairing the ravages of war; smiles were OF
every face and hope in every heart, except thos
which harbored treachery, and knew that thu
treaty was all delusion Having thus lullet
to sleep the vigilance OF Toussaint and his de-
voted friends, the French set about contrvine
how they might entrap the mighty African
whom they dared not seize openly, and take
him, as the first consul had commanded, pris-
oner to France With the oath on his lips-"I
swear before the Supreme Being to respect the
Iliberty of St. Domingo" which he had
concluded the treaty, he was plotting in his
heart how best to compass the overthrow of a
man by Whom that liberty had been achieved,
and in whom the colored population of the is
land, numbering at least nine-tenths of the
whole, trnsted for its continuance. He instruct
ed General Brunet, one of his officers, to over
charge ono Of the divisions or cantonments of
the island with troops this as was expected
called forth a remonstrance from the inhabitants,
and Toussaint was invited from his secure re-
treat to meet the French General, and arrange
the affair in manner satisfactory to all parties.
Generously confding in the professions of his
pretended friends, he came to the spot indicated
with the specified number of attendants, and,
while the conference was in progress, was sur
rounded by a superior force, led on by an ad
miral of France, and he and all the members Of
his family on whom hands could be laid were
made prisoners, and hurried on board ship
of war, which instantly set sail, and conveyed
him from the shores of that beautiful island
where he had hoped to shew the world how
peaceful, how orderly, how great and prosper.
GUS, might become commonwealth of negroes
properly governed and instructed.
How many of the French troops found a grave
amid the sands and swamps of the island, car
ried of by the fever and pestence which at Ger.
tain seasons prevail, it is not our purpose tc
dwell upon. A wretched remnant, however
only returned to tell the tale Of their discom-
fture.
The treacherous seizure of Toussant and bis
family exasperated the negroes to pitch oi
phrenzy such of them as had osen deceived in
to coalition with the French at once saw their
error and turned against them There was nc
longer truce, but war to the knife; unheard OF
cruelties were perpetrated on both sides and the
struggle terminated in the total defeat of the
French, and the proclamation of lhe independ-
ence of St. Domingo, or Hayti, the original
name of the island.
But what became of Toussaint L'Oyerture
Arrived in the harbor Of Brest, few moments
only were allowed him to say farewell forever to
his wife and children. According to some ac-
counts he was first taken to Paris and confined
in the prison of the Temple, and there meanly
prosecuted by inquiries about treasures which it
was supposed he had buried in st. Domingo.
Finding that he would not, or, as it really ap-
pears, could not, make any revelations on this
head, Napoleon had him conveyed with great
secrecy to a solitary fortress in the Jura Noun
tains, where, after an imprisonment OF ter
months in miserable dungeon, whose stone
walls were CLASSY and bcnded with moisture, the
strong constitution of this child Of the tropics
yielded to the wasting influence of cold, hunger
and confinement, and he died, as surely ant
more cruelty murdered than if he had been sho
Or hanged like the yilest crlmlnal.--( Ao"d0"
AMI Slarely Reporter.