Laveaux, freed, met Toussaint and proclaimed him lieutenant to the general government of the colony.

The outposts, commanded by Pierre-Michel, colonel of the 3rd regiment, declared themselves against the arrest of Laveaux: Henry Christophe, captain of the grenadiers of the 3rd regiment, was sent to the Cap to inform himself of the nature of the events. Pierre-Michel did more: he stirred up the cultivators and sent word to L’Ouverture, then at Gonaïves. The municipality, terrified, designated on 1 germinal (11 March), at nine o’clock in the morning, three of its members to go and set the governor and the *ordonnateur* at liberty. These two officials, returned to the bosom of the municipality, swore oblivion of the past, but with perjury in their hearts. L’Ouverture nevertheless marches at the head of considerable forces, while everything is under arms at Haut-du-Cap; soon twenty thousand men threaten the town: new horrors are to be feared. Laveaux, in order not to assume on his own head the entire responsibility for the events, goes on 6 germinal (16 March) to establish himself at Petite-Anse, a village not far from the Cap, on the fortified plantation of Saint-Michel. Villatte, in his turn, followed by his aide-de-camp Magny, resolves to withdraw to the Lamartelière plantation at Terrier-Rouge, where the camp of that name was located. On 9 germinal, Toussaint met Laveaux with two regiments and a numerous cavalry (1). And, although he was a possessor of lands, Laveaux proclaimed him on the same day, in contempt of {{the law of 4 April|the French law of 4 April 1792, which granted equal political rights to free people of color}}, lieutenant to the general government of the colony.