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 he had to deal. On more occasions than one he to
 *vae, and, having filled it with grains of black maize,
 herein sbme grains of white maize, and said, Ton
 lacn maize; the whites who would enslave you are the'
 tiasze." He then shook the glass, and, placing it before
 eyes, he cried, as if inspired, See the white ones ontyI
 aad there."
 The army Toussaint L'Ouverture kept under the m
 orous discipline. Evenr breach of duty was severely pum 
 Even during the civil wars, plunder was restricted as mO
 possible. He was, however, adored' by his soldiers.
 Scarcely less was the veneration paid him by other mei
 of Haytian life. He won and enjoyed the esteem of the I
 nists; he was valued highly by the ministers of religiofi
 the blacks he was regarded as a messenger of God. Eved:
 mulattoes began to look to him with hope and respect.
 The confidence which Toubsaint inspired soon produced j
 effects in the colony. The lands once more cultivated, ant
 tivated under judicious regulations, became productive, ail
 of old, poured forth abundance and wealth. With the spreT
 industry and the increase of riches, population, which hadT
 greatly diminished in the wars, recovered its impule andi
 mented its numbers. A large and prosperous people rest
 the churches, which had been burnt or allowed to become d
 idated, decorated the cities with fine buildings, enriched.
 public treasury, cultivated the arts, and erelong indulged
 luxury. The general intelligence was raised, and mai
 were refined. Human nature vindicated itself against hiscal
 niators; for, in a short time, after a period of frightful w
 ing, the black State of Hayti could endure a comparison i
 the higher forms of white and European civilization. TI
 was at the Cape, under the name of the HOtul de la RE
 lique, an inn, the exterior and interior Fplendor of which scam
 yielded to the richest establishments of the kind in any paM
 the world. It was frequented by the principal blacks ani
 the Americans of the continent. There mere etiquette-