He returned to France, and became very intimate with Barnave; he entreated the Constituent Assembly to apply the principles of liberty to the colonies, and not to make any exception to Divine law, by leaving the slaves to their masters; excited and irritated by the hesitation of the committee, who withdrew with one hand what it gave with the other, he declared that if justice could not suffice for their cause, he would appeal to force.

Barnave had said, "_Perish the colonies rather than a principle!_" The men of the 14th of July had no right to condemn, in the heart of Oge, that revolt which was their own title to independence.

We may believe that the secret wishes of the friends of the blacks followed Oge, who returned to San Domingo.

He found there the rights of men of colour and the principles of liberty of the blacks more denied and more profaned than ever.

He raised the standard of insurrection, but with the forms and rights of legality.