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History of the Girondists, Volume I

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A price was set upon his head.
M.de Blanchelande in his proclamations imputed it as a crime to him that he had claimed the rights of nature in the name of the Assembly, which had so loudly proclaimed the rights of the citizen.

They applied to the Spanish authorities to surrender this Spartacus, equally dangerous to the safety of the whites in both countries.

Oge was delivered up to the French by the Spaniards, and sent for trial to the Cape.

His trial was protracted for two months, in order to afford time to cut asunder all the threads of the plot of independence, and intimidate his accomplices.

The whites, in great excitement, complained of these delays, and demanded his head with loud vociferations.


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