Léogane. Pinchinat, Sala and Fontaine arrive from the Cap.

Villate, Pinchinat, Sala and Fontaine showed themselves indignant at this glaring partiality of the governor in favor of Toussaint Louverture. They resolved to organize an insurrection against Laveaux, to deport him, and to hand supreme authority in the North to the old freedmen, as the old freedmen already exercised it almost unchecked in the West and in the South through Bauvais and Rigaud. From every quarter the former freedmen of the province of the North came to concert with them and to receive their instructions. There were at the Cap three regiments of free troops. The first of these corps, commanded by a white man named Rodrigue, was especially devoted to Villate. The officers who made up its staff pressed all kinds of demands upon Laveaux. They asked him for their arrears of pay, reproaching him with giving the white troops of Port-de-Paix, who had fought no better than they against the English and the Spanish, much higher pay than theirs. The officers of the two other regiments made the same demand. Colonel Rodrigue presented himself at the national palace, spoke to the governor with arrogance in the name of the officers, and so far forgot himself as to tell him that his only regret was to be white, and that the colony would have peace only when it was governed by a mulatto. Laveaux found himself obliged to have him imprisoned. But four days later he set him free, yielding to the clamor of the Black women and the women of color of the Cap. At the same time Pinchinat, Sala and Fontaine declared to him that they would no longer sail on the corvette Vénus, since they needed to receive fresh instructions from Bauvais and Rigaud: they had already been at the Cap for two months. Villate, for his part, informed him that he was withdrawing from Citizen Hennequin the mandate he had given him to represent him before the Convention. Pinchinat, Sala and Fontaine, whose presence at the Cap was becoming useless, left for Léogane on 21 February and arrived there on the 23rd of the same month.