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 .e. certainly in Toussaint L'Ouverture's, was a
 M d torship of indispensable necessity. Rightly
 t his position, and well did he understand his
 'new Moses had brought his people out of Egyp-
 and must now give them a code of laws, over the
 which, for the few remaining years of his life, it is
 duty to watch. Such conduct asks no defence,
 Iro excuse. It is positively and highly virtuous, and
 temerse would have been a betfyal of a sacred duty,
 a momentous trust.
itbe hour of temptation has come. The victorious
 commands universal obedience ard enjoys universal
 y become a president or asorereign. Thegoodprin-
iers; Satan is dismissed with a rebuke; the crown
; the presidency is deliberaty chosen.
ILe reader think of WadhinoDn, who, when he might
)live become a king, became a private citizen? We
kire that Washington's means for establishing a throne
aidst of the high-minded republicans of the Anglo-
'See were equal to those which Toussaint possessed
ihe uncultured and recently liberated Haytians, whom
heade fond of parade, and custom had habituated to
'~ The greater the opportunity, the greater the tempta-
i can he be accounted the inferior man who overcame
feverer trial. Nor must it be forgotten, that while
IEn could, with confidence and safety, leave his assoc-
iheir own well-tried and well-matured powers of self-
t, L'Ouverture had, in comparison, but children to
itcad provide for. Would it have been either prudent
I nt to retire from the oversight of those children at
i'lnoment when they had ceased to do evil and were
 to do well? Clearly, duty, in the most solemn and
 tones, demanded the continuance of that fatherly'
PA had rescued those babes in intellect from impending
ito far led them ,oward the attainment of individual
hftbd social excellence. Yes, Tousaint L'Owuertr'e;
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