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- Without entering into any detail of our rights, we summon you, and all the inhabitants, of every denomination in this colony, to surrender, within the space of two hours, to the republican forces under our command...And we give you notice, that in case of your not submitting, as you are enjoined, you shall be liable to all the scourges of a disastrous war ...
Done at our camp, the fourth of March in the third year of the French Republic, one and indivisible.
Julien Fédon, Officer of the Republic, appointed at Guadeloupe. (en)
- Idleness being a Vice contrary to the Spirit Of the Government,
the Energy of the Government, being to watch over the happiness Of the Social Contract, It is therefore the Duty Of the Government to work at extirpating this odious Vice of Idleness. The Eye of the Chief has penetrated into the forests, and instead of wild beasts, has seen there Citizens living separate from the Society of men. The Law does not know man, whom Society does not know. All those who live at a distance from others, are suspicious in her Eyes, She cannot look upon them as her legitimate Children. A Vagabond is a dangerous Monster, every man useless to the Republic ought to be treated as such, the Action of the honest man are public Acts, usefull to the Republic, as well as himself. Now, he who lives retired and concealed does no public Actions, whose Actions are not useful to the public Cause, and from that time he must be considered as a suspicious and dangerous man, this is a man whom Government must prosecute with all the Rigour of the laws in order to make him useful to the common happiness[...] (en)
- Sir, Upwards of one half of the militia having left me, contrary to the most positive orders, I have been prevented from carrying my plans into execution; and as I shall not be able to act offensively until I have at least a number equal to those with which I set out, I thought it advisable to give the part of the militia that remained behind and who bore cheerfully much hardship from the extreme badness of the weather, leave to return to St. George's to refresh themselves, under the positive promise of them returning in two days; in which time it is to be hoped that the weather may prove more favourable for active operations...I must request a supply of blankets and shirts for my troops, as when they laid down their haversacks to engage the enemy, the negroes stole them. (en)
- Time and the defeat of the English forces at Guadeloupe had weakened the remembrance of the heinous crimes by which the vile satellites of GEORGE had sullied the Windward Islands...that from and after the date of this our official declaration, the assassination of each and every individual republican shall be expiated by the death of two English officers, our prisoners. (en)
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