The biracial representatives from San Domingue warned the French National Assembly in Paris in 1789 about the disastrous consequences that will occur if they do not address the hypocrisy of their ideas, and demands for redress of grievances. Vincent Oje, a wealthy planter from San Domingue, delivered a speech to the Parisian audience and told them that France will receive a mortal wound and a multitude of decent citizens will be impoverished, ruined if they don't give free people of color what their principles suggest.