The Convention received the deputies of Saint-Domingue and voted by acclamation the abolition of enslavement throughout the Republic.

LEVASSEUR of the Sarthe succeeds Camboulas: “I demand, he says, that the NATIONAL CONVENTION, declining to yield to a movement of enthusiasm, and obeying the principles of justice, faithful to the declaration of the rights of man, decree at this moment that slavery is abolished throughout the whole territory of the Republic. Saint-Domingue forms part of that territory, and yet there are still enslaved people in Saint-Domingue. I demand that all men be free, without distinction of color.” These last words increase the enthusiasm. The CONVENTION rises in a body and votes by acclamation. VADIER, who presided over the assembly that day, then pronounces the abolition of slavery, amid applause and cries a thousand times repeated of: Long live the Republic! Long live the Convention!… Belley and Mils climb the steps of the tribune; the *nègre* and the *mulâtre* clasp one another in a holy embrace. This sign of the union of the two castes increases the applause. And as though nothing were to be lacking to make this scene one of the most touching, a *mulâtresse*, whose name I regret not knowing, that I might record it here, felt a joy so keen on hearing the irons of her brothers broken that she lost the use of her senses entirely. Gambon draws the attention of the assembly to this affecting fact. The assembly orders that it be entered in the minutes, and that the citizeness be admitted to the honors of the sitting, in recognition of her civic virtues. Then one could admire this noble woman, seated on the first bench of the amphitheater, to the left of the president, and wiping away the tears that her happy and sublime emotion made stream from her eyes.