Toussaint dated his printed reply to Rigaud, a pamphlet of eight folio pages that accused him of revolt.

Such is the substance of the famous treaty concluded between England, the United States and Toussaint: it is entirely from Maitland’s hand. Needless to say, it constituted an evident treason toward republican France, the France which had just proclaimed liberty, and in whose very bosom the English wished to extinguish it! Needless to point out all these provisions made in advance to starve the department of the South! But however secret the conferences were, Rigaud had learned of them; Roume alone remained ignorant of them, or feigned to be. And it is at the very moment of these conferences, in which the rights of the mother country were about to be so odiously sacrificed, that Toussaint was having printed the reply that we announced to Rigaud’s letter, so full of moderation and dignity. This reply, which runs to no fewer than eight folio pages, is dated 30 floréal (19 May); Toussaint accuses Rigaud of not having prayer said to the troops; of having left unpunished the murder of the prisoners of Corail; of having driven from Jérémie men who ought to have lived there under the faith of treaties; of not loving general liberty; of having been seduced by Hédouville; of not wishing to obey a Black man. This long diatribe is strewn here and there with the most terrible epithets: perfidious, calumniator, liar, intriguer, crafty, proud, ambitious, jealous, despot, wicked, artful, vindictive, cruel, tyrant, executioner, factious, assassin, insubordinate, traitor. Finally, he accuses Rigaud of raising the standard of revolt and of menacing the Republic. Toussaint did not stop there; he ordered several regiments of the North to march upon Port-au-Prince.