Môle Saint-Nicolas. Toussaint publishes a proclamation there.

In the first days of September Toussaint went to Môle Saint-Nicolas. On 25 Fructidor, Year 7 (11 September 1799), he published there a proclamation whose principal provisions depict well the political delirium that had then seized every mind. Having announced to the inhabitants of the colony that the accomplices of Bellegarde and Golart had been tried and punished with death or imprisoned, and having advised the citizens to guard themselves against the perfidious insinuations of the traitor Rigaud, he recalled that Rigaud had seized by treachery Petit-Goâve and Grand-Goâve, which he had bloodied by the murder of their inhabitants without distinction of age or sex; that he had then woven a conspiracy aimed at taking the North and the West from the lawful authority; and that his agents had gone through every district to bring the men of color into his party. He claimed that these agents told some that the mulattoes were the only true inhabitants of Saint-Domingue, that this island belonged to them by right, that France belonged to the whites and Guinea to the Negroes, and that they ought therefore to second General Rigaud, who wished to secure them entire possession of their country; that they told others that Toussaint wished to exterminate the caste of the mulattoes and make himself independent of France with the help of the English, that he wished to plunge the Black people back into slavery, and that the whites whom he favored were the cruelest enemies of the Black people.