%,,. ."-..


54 THE ur oF :

 Such were the men under whom Tounialnt now fou
self. No longer able to choose the moment fr commen
benevolent enterprise, he was hurried int, the eddying t
by the swelling streams of popular llnantlism. lis fidelity
his proprietors making him an olbi.- t of u-'piLinn andl a
for negro attack, he was. t ren in sel'-derinnc, '.,liged to fall i
the ranks of the ragin. iriurgrnti. Gene'rlly known as mil
for his intetlli-rI:ni, as lii- mod.rat;on, he was il,.- l.ss h kely,
be spar.-J; but dra.2, iti.. the rl.bellion ag-innt hiO bet4
feelings auud his juid-mii n, he was, r,'mr.l..i with diit.i
Withbhld, in ,-ouitelui nlni, from the mibrIar. i'.t -,r which
talents fitted h:m, hI' was commnndi,'l to >.n*i.l', his mf;edJi
skill in taking care of the wodmJn.-.'l. Qu;:tl andl usel'ully
played in an offi' e which was agrerk-alle to his l;I:rling, he, at
distance from the coutlict, turned hi;s n.tuirally ri.-:t rive mi
to the studyof the perisnal qualities o!' hi'- ij l;, and so
quired -an acquaintan.e with iheir weakrv!--.,. w-hi.h real
aided him in at length attaiuinig; sul.rrr,-Jt crnmmiand. That
he reached without di.srai ing hini.ll' by bloi'J or pilla.ge, i.
contest in which examples of' Itl rrna lei on his ?.ight.
was by nature- retiring and given to se.'lu..ion, lbut it Fran
Lafitte, whom lie had long known, and whon her now foa
among the in3urgens-:, he hli3] Onre. iOm[Pinion with whom us
larity of id..eas anl f-elin'. man-l: inter.uirse- both p|lewsant a
profitable. It Wmay wll hi. sluplpo-r-l that tlhe'' twto men, uni
in the bonls ni g'oJtri-. ni l pnillanthrupi, oilen dtlilored 1
gelther the horrible excesses. which they witne.ed, or of whl
they heard.
 As, however, the insurrection passed on. and -peci
when deli-at made its conduct ditfieult, -the Icaders found
imperative to bring Ibrward all nmen of superior talinl. I
longer, thier'l.iire, was Toussaint permittedl to purue his md
ral oc:upatnons. Taken out of1 comparative privacy, he .
m:adle ai'le-,'.-ranip to Bia.,-ou.
 A gritiL-qit,- sp':..c ta. 1',i1 ih1it n,.li r. armv,-.r rather those
gro ban.l. pi vi. '.h. e.. were ri.di. ulun Iy attired in