Jean-François, Biassou and Toussaint wrote to the Spanish governor to swear fidelity to the king of Spain.

Galbaud’s cruel outrage threw the cordon of the West into disorganization; de Nully then held its command, in place of the marquis de Fontanges, who was at that time at the waters of Banica. De Nully went over to the Spaniards, while the camps of Ouanaminthe, of Lesec and of La Tannerie surrendered, with a great deal of war matériel, to the insurgent enslaved. What above all emboldened these enslaved people was the presence of a great number of the factious of the Cap, who posed as victims of their devotion to royalty, and who prevented the peace proposals of the commission from being realized. Accordingly Jean-François, Biassou and Toussaint, far from hastening to the bosom of the Republic, which had just called them to the enjoyment of the rights of man, wrote on 24 June (2) to the governor of the Spanish part, don Hyoachim Garcia, to swear homage and fidelity to the king of Spain. On 9 July Garcia received them into the service of his government, maintained them in the ranks they had arrogated to themselves, and sent them uniforms laced with gold (1). From that time these men, who had taken up arms in the name of liberty, became its most cruel enemies; directed by the fanatical curé of Laxabon, don Vasquez, they waged a war without quarter upon the republican party; adding particles to their names, they declared themselves the champions of servitude and of royalty. A strange aberration, which one can understand in Jean-François and Biassou, two ignorant and coarse beings, and which one cannot forgive in the intelligent and cunning Toussaint!