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.