At the head of a body of two hundred men of colour, he demanded the promulgation in the colonies of the decrees of the National Assembly, despotically delayed until that time.

He wrote to the military commandant at the Cape, "We require the proclamation of the law which makes us free citizens.

If you oppose this, we will repair to Leogane, we will nominate electors, and repel force by force.

The pride of the colonists revolts at sitting beside us: was the pride of the nobility and clergy consulted when the equality of citizens was proclaimed in France ?" The government replied to this eloquent demand for liberty by sending a body of troops to disperse the persons assembled, and Oge drove them back.
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A larger body of troops being despatched, they contrived, after a desperate resistance, to disperse the mulattoes.

Oge escaped, and found refuge in the Spanish part of the island.