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the University of France, I was e to obtain from
General Deafourneaux a copy of these Memo b h he had
in his possession. Still later, after much rse ,
needed in discovering the original manuscript in the Genera
Archives of France. Eagerly, and with qcrupulousatutntion.
did I peruse the lengthy page-s, all written in the hand of tlh
First of the Blacks. The r-motlius i:..s:it.d in nie by this
examination will be be-ttrr uildcrsruod than they can be de-
scribed. The mind is thrown into an jalVyss f reflections Iy
the memory of s Ill'fty a renown beut under th- w:.ight (of Eo
much insibfrtune."
 M. Saint Remy adds. that "f Toussaint's east of mind
 may well he judged from the fact that his t<.n manu-
 script is entirely at firht hand, without an erasure or an in-
 sertion."
 This interesting paper i uniw GrIt .ulIlihi.d in the Engli-h
 language, having been esprcssly tranr~late'l I;r ibii v...lumt.
 Are the .XVprors fit tr Soldirrs? Ignorant of the
history of Hayti, which fbrcvcr settled the question. our jour-
nalista and public men for many long months disputed it, un-
til the gallant charges on Port Hullson and Fort Wagner put
an end to the humiliating ,l-b.alt.
 *Are \egroes .i' for O(ll' rs. "? We are entering on
that debate now. The Lilfe of Tmisecaint may help to end it.
What Toussaint. Christolphe, D.-ss-ines dlid, plantation-
hands" and yet able warriors and statesmen, all of them, -
some Sambo, Wash, or Jtff, still tuiling in the rice-fields or
among the sugar-canvs, or ho.-ing his coticn-row in the S,;uthern
States, may be meditating t:-day and destined to begin to-
morrow.
 BOSTON, SarTLMBLP., 1&63.