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Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 1, chapter 24 (search)
rker were sent with several thousand men, and finally, the English government entering more seriously into the plot, General Maitland landed with four thousand Englishmen on the north side of the island, and gained many successes. The mulattoes werr the first time, and almost the last, the island obeys one law. He has put the mulatto under his feet. He has attacked Maitland, defeated him in pitched battles, and permitted him to retreat to Jamaica; and when the French army rose upon Laveaux, tim well, said, He was the purest soul God ever put into a body. Of him history bears witness, He never broke his word. Maitland was travelling in the depths of the woods to meet Toussaint, when he was met by a messenger, and told that he was betray on, and met Toussaint, who showed him two letters,--one from the French general, offering him any rank if he would put Maitland in his power, and the other his reply. It was, Sir, I have promised the Englishman that he shall go back. [Cheers.] Le