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 CHAPTER V.*

Immediate causes of the rising or the blacks Disaenlons of the pla
 era-Spread of anti-elavery opinions in Eurnpe -The outbreak of (
 fBrt Frenuh Revolution Mulatto war--Nero Inurre.tion To
 saint protects hie matter and mlaitr.'s, and their property.

W IILE Tousaint was pursuing a course of reading a
 meditation which was to conduct him in its issue to gre
achievements, the volcano of insurre-tion andt mutual slaught
was preparing around him, the premonition of yhich he w
too sagacious not to discern. Hayti vwa prosperous. TI
masters daily grew more opulent on the produce of their pla
stations. The war of Am-ri, an indepnr,.riJ.ce made Ilayti in
a great commercial entrepot, and largely atugme-nt<-d its wealt
Could the actual condition or the colony have been maintain
its riches would have continued to in. rra.se,-andl, nith
riches, its voluptuousness. But already that ~ry wealth hi
sown the seeds of disorder. The larger planter' w.-re too op
lent and too-powecrtil to be at pea.e with ,-alit other. The
existed a rivalry between the two rhief e;tic-. the Cape ai
Port-au-Prinre. This rivalry wna male more intrens who
in 1787, the Supetrior C'ouucil li he Cape was .uppr.:,cd, a4
its power tran-fTrred to tire C'oun, il o rf Prt-au-Prin.:'-, mud
the general designation of the Superior Council of St. D
mingo." Dissensions ensued, in which the West and the Soul
soon took part. Appeal was made to Fran.e. The Govez
ment listened, but gave no remedy. Recourse was had to i
direct influence. Deputic" were sent to Paris. Thciir activi
 *Chapter V.of the Enrleh edition, whir h trrni. of Tonw.aalnt's
sumrd Scrlpturnl srn.ll. -," the M.'adilt roJ, the tEpi 'ile ln Philolmon, F4
kindred velpi-,. is onillredl r irr-I.alnt I. ry inr Ilig nt re-nrd r .-n pi
sume Tou6,&eail's rcrlptural ilterprtatloD2 us "cll a, ilte author ED.4