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 CHAPTER XII.

 Touuaint endeavors to auppress the Blave-trade In Santo-Do
 thereby incurs the dliplalsure of Rournt, the reprcerntative of
 He overcomes Higaud L'oinp.artc-, now Fir~it Coniul, ends Co
 eloners to the iWland--End nr the war In the t.lmbh.

 B UT Toussaint L'Ou'vrture ibund trr.ublvs and Linlirad.
 an unexpected quarter. During the ratrit ideal war i
 deluged the South with blood, the horrible tramlEi of the
 trade was revived on the cast of the island. This eomm
 originated by Jean Franois and Biassou, continuedd after
 disappearance from the political s,.'en.e and went on con
 increasing. Young blat.ks, stolen in the North were convey
 to the city of Saint Domingo, where th.y were :hippe4ti
 Porto Rico and Ha'anah. there to bear the yoke, of la
 Many of the old otfflers of Jean Francois pursu.id thLi as th
 only means ._' subl.i~r,.-n.e.
 Aware that repre-n-nations had in vain been made ag
 thmee barbariti,. at thle ei.iurt 'f Mllrii. anrl indl;ruant t
 slavery, whir nearly extinuibhold in iti ol1l Iorm, l.hould be4
 rived in a Ocew andi \:ven woir. on.le., TiJusijint wrote (Dee1'
 18r;)l. Irom t.he wall <.f' Jra-.m :-I t)o ith A;epnt, HHoume, ur
 him, as the only efl'ktual mpans of' putting a -t,,p to the evio
 take posse-sion of the Spanish part t'o the idlarn, JonlbrmaM
 to treaty. Under the pretext that it was necisary to await ,
 arrival of some European troops, Roume poitpu niIl the eret
 tion of the request. Tou.?aint was tr.o '*r-.Jd n polite i nobi
 L.- awari tllit the o)ti.rn:ibl pi,,tpi:.int- ml.nt w in reality a I
 fuel. lie alo bel..iame aw-re that H.jutni,' a'li-.-r was o
 who owed no good-will to hime-ll Th.t p.r- 'n, Ielng invir
 to give an account of his conduct, emigratrd ti: Porto Rico,e