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defend, we will retire, and, flying from mountain to
we will fight ineemantly until aid comes roi-i France."
 Bravery ahd determination worthy of a better cause! '
 hope of aid from France prove-d lhIim.-ri, al, iyet the not
 helped to keep the soldiers in th,- lini: of duty. Reliel, indeed
 came to them, but it was from an iun,-xp.e tled quarter.
 Miserably wa, this unfortunate ilantl torn asundler h Sp
iards, French. En'libh, mulattoes, and tbhe black ; h monar
ists, by re-piulican-, by scepti. ;. Iy Romanit.q, ly false fiie
and true fiienlds of ne2-ro emanLiparion. A lama.ntable ill
traction of the diversity of these risal intcr.re't wa3 pre3entedl
Saint Mare. The same day three ila's bhalan.. id and negathi
each other under the influence ('of political breeze,. Four c
odes symbolized four different tse t opinion.: here '
whites who wore the black cockade; there otht.r whites
wore the white cockade; while the mulatto).~ wure the
cockade; and some soldiers wore the tri-clr.orc.-l r:-kadde.
 About this time may bhr dated the final thangr- which
name of Toussaint underwent by re,::it ing the addition'
L'Ouverture. L'Ouvcrture is a French wo ro, whi:h si'r
the opening. The surname is said to have h..n given as ind
tire of the opening which Touz.aiaht hat madie 1;..r himse
the ranks and the p;oi.es-.-'na *-.f three on.r It' this was
origin, the name- i- appropriate. Though noit Mlwa' -ui::ed
he rushed on his t;..b< lth an iimpt.l whih. uh.inemid down
position. With poetic liccnwe. Lamartine, in hi'. drama, ma
the designation-derived, a.'orling to him, from L'Aur
Day-break-to have been given to Toussaint by a monk,
thus intimated to him that he was to he the morning-star
new era in Havyi.

 I'njour, un capacin, on de cea pa.rrei pIres,
 ColporI urs de la fil, donl It- runle -.ontn t le rre-.j,
 En rennt l -ile-r I'.ttl..r dr-.JIhnm l, -
 S'arr.-ta deant mrin come un aurre Samrnl. .
 Qurl ci- ton nnm I Tuunisini. Paurr. mnangeur d'ign
 t 'et Itc- nm r!' ton corps; mals le num de ton Ame,