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 The steward of the plantation on which he had himself be
 S slave vegetated in the United States. L'Ouverture,
 informed of the fact, wrote him an invitation to return
 Hayti, to put himself at the head of the interests of
 good old masters." The letter, conceive-d in a friendly
 urgent tone, brought back the steward. Toussaint tave
 an interview, and among other things said to him, Returt
 the plantation; be just and inflexible; ee that the blacks
 their duty, in ordenrto add, by your prosperity, to the prospe
 of the land."
 The discontinuance of the war led to the resumption
 agriculture. Th.: change from the musket to the hoe was
S course gradual; but utih was the influence and such the de
 mination of the great black, that erelong the ri h ciltival
 districts began to put on a smiling aspep t, promi-ing richeI'
 well as abundance. Had the peace continued, the pr
 would have been realized in the tfullet i1 -re,. Forthw
 however, did the culture of the *',il, bi.-ile providing tor
 wants of the inhabitants, ifurnish the public tr.:asury with s
 client resources. Intelligencer of the r,.tuirnin- prosperity reach
 foreign lands. The colonists wiho wer,' s.'attererd up ani d
 in those lands 'aw a ray of hope, and. norwiihatandin
 they had undergone in Saint LDomingn, notwithstanding t
 dislike of the predominance of the bli..k., they invited
 gladly an.:epted perminiion to return home and resume
 sion of their estates. Their letterA, coming from various
 tries, and unanimously espre-.ing confidleice in the inte.
 and the power of the General-in-:hiel; a. w'.ll as in the j
 and excellence of his administration, neatlyy contributed'
 strengthen his hands and confirm his authority. Sr
 S could a more satisfactory or a more striking pro.'f be given
 the claim of Toussaint to our respect and admiration than'
 found in the readiness with which this cla-s of men emba
 their all in the vt-el which he commandrled
 The political evil and civil war that had afflicted S
 Domingo, in causing the expatriation of proprietors, had