124 Tas LIE or

 Hast thou nothing to ask for thyself? The crown and
S of Hayti ? Nay, frown not. Other surcc-still warriors
 taken regal titles as their due. Nor need thou tear oppo6
 The Agent is weak and disesteemed. Bonaparte is
 laurels in Italy. England will be prompt to aid thee.
 consider how mulb thy race needs elevation. What c
 much raise them from the dust ? Yes, thou must, as thou
 be King fl Hlayti; and thy name, glorious fihr it military
 will be more glorious. still as the first of a long line of illU
 sovereigns utf iigro, bloi:.l.
 Instead of troubling himself and othe-r in arrangements
 playing on his head the baublh of a crown, Toussaint L'Ot
 ture turned his attention to the condition ofthe country.
 was not yet wholly in the power of France. Though fo
 ceded to the French, the east-rn part of the isle remained a
 Spanish rule.. Not sincere in his wishes to take possessi
 Spanish Hayti, Roume had sent I;rces so inconsiderable,
 they were easily defeated. On their return, he revoked.
 order for its occupation. On learning the ta' t, L'Ouv
 was indignant. Was slavery, then, in its worst form, to b
 tablished and acknowledged in Hay ti ? Was the Gove
 to be an a-t'nting, if not a conrurring. party ? And were
 his own labors and .sa-:rifl .* to be thtlms i u'trared ?- frust
 by low osel-iunt.r-st and La-n: intrig l:i ? Could he, who had
 quered t'ret-el.,m fir the nogr t:s, allow th-ir children to be
 napped anil tran-ipXrt:,l to dtrangeo countries.. and foreign I
 there to be degraled aid ru;n,-d ? Impi:.ibl> 1 Yet Euch
 the alternative if Rtume reta;u.i:d p', cs:i..-n of the civil
 ernment; for he had tried what wouldd be done in this ma
 with Boume by argument and moral influence. The effort
 failed, and now Roume had availed himself of his absence,i
 his absorption in military duties, to reverse a policy in w
 they had in (uinuril come to an under-tandin:. Besides, he
 proved himself untoaihlul to: France, Iy irtutally surrende
 a portion of his rightfubl poss,.s-iou. In such bands.
 could not be safely trusted. And, doubtless, the Home Gov