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Other editions - View allCommon terms and phrasesAcklin's afterwards America appeared arms army arrived attack authority Bahamas body Britain British called Cape Francois Captain Charaibes circumstance citoyens blancs citoyens de couleur coast Colonel colonial assembly colour commissioners conduct considerable cotton Crooked Island cultivation declared decree detachment Ditto Domingo East Indies effect Eleuthera embarked enemy England English Europe Europe H Exuma fait favour force France Galbaud garrison gens de couleur governor grenadiers Guadaloupe harbour Hispaniola hundred immediately Jacmel Jamaica king's land Leogane Lieutenant March massacre Mauduit ment miles morning mulattoes Nassau national assembly nationale nature neral North observed occasion officers parishes party persons Peynier plantations Port au Prince possession present proceeded province qu'il rebels regiment revolt Santhonax ships shore situation sloop Spaniards Spanish surrender tion took town Tree troops vessels Victor Hugues Vincent's Wallen West Indies white inhabitants whole Windward Windward Islands Popular passagesPage 249 - And Joseph made ready his chariot, and went up to meet Israel his father, to Goshen, and presented himself unto him ; and he fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while. And Israel said unto Joseph, Now let me die, since I have seen thy face, because thou art yet alive. Page 131 - ... it is the law written by the finger of God on the heart of man ; and by that law, unchangeable and eternal, while men despise fraud, and loathe rapine, and abhor blood, they shall reject with indignation the wild and guilty fantasy, that man can hold property in man ! In vain you appeal to treaties, to covenants between nations. Page 252 - And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to die: and what profit shall this birthright do to me? Page 27 - ... interior government of the colonies in the constitution which they had framed for the mother country, or to subject them to laws which were incompatible with their local establishments: they therefore authorize the... Page 83 - ... and one thousand two hundred Christian families reduced from opulence to such a state of misery, as to depend altogether for their clothing and sustenance on public and private charity. Of the insurgents, it was reckoned that upwards of ten thousand had perished by the sword or by famine ; and some hundreds by the hands of the execu^ tiorier ; many of thenij I am sorry to say, under the torture of the wheel ; ğa system of revenge and retaliation, which no enormities of savage life could... Page 81 - They went accordingly, but not finding the boat, gave themselves up for lost, when the faithful negro again appeared like their guardian angel. He brought with him pigeons, poultry, and bread; and conducted the family, by slow marches in the night, along the banks of the river, until they were within sight of the wharf at Port Margot; when telling them they were entirely out of danger, he took his leave for ever, and went to join the rebels. The family were in the woods nineteen nights. Let us now... Page 391 - Hatteras. or or wounded by the first broadside, and one of the sloops for a dine disabled. But notwithstanding this severe loss, the lieutenant persevered in his resolution to grapple with' his enemy, or perish in the attempt. Observing that his own sloop, which was still fit for action, drew more water than the pirate's, he ordered all her ballast to be thrown out, and, directing his men to conceal themselves between decks, took the helm in person, and steered directly aboard of his antagonist,... Page 390 - ... the devil, as little affected by the smoke as if he had been born in the infernal regions; till his companions, nearly suffocated and fainting, compelled him to release them. Page 399 - ... never satisfied with looking at them : they knelt down, lifted up their hands and gave thanks to God, inviting one another to admire the heavenly men. Twenty years, however, had scarcely elapsed, before these heavenly men found it convenient to transport them, by force or artifice, to dig in the mines of Hispaniola ; a measure to which the court of Spain was tempted to give its assent by the plausible suggestion that it would be the most effectual mode of civilizing and instructing them in the... Page 390 - But his conduct toward* one of them appears to have been too unfeeling and unmanly to admit of description. The English government, having determined to clear the sea of these ruffians, directed some ships of war to effect that purpose in the early part of last century. 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