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 04 TIFE LIFE OF

The present was dark and gloomy. Leclerc, with
forces, was still strong, and should the army now t
command be annihilated, it could easily be replaced by
exhaustible re-'our,:es of France. Yet, so long as he
lived, he was bound to labor in the sacred cause he had
taken. With thr past full in his view, he could not
Any way it is fIr man to deserve, as it is 'or God to gilV
cess..
CCoSS.
 Instead of' inking beneath his sense of the great loss
by the destruction of C'rte-a-Pi rrot, Toussaint, after a'l
interval, resumed hIstile operations with an actie energy
surpassed even in his daas of triumph. He had indeed
feared from the view of' hiis tes, but it was only to d
them by cfise and rapid marcbhes, to prepare ambuscat
harass them on their flanks and in the rear; to make theti.
under the fatigue, hunger, thirst, and want of sleep he'
pelled them to undergo. Now hi c,'jerri his flight by
and by flames to make their victory mor,- Lbneful than
nary defeat; now he waited for his prey in a defile,
doing much, by the Ibrte of his gennui, to carry the wart'a
.ond all a.knowl.-dged rule;. Christ-.phe in tlh North
salineP in the Wct, tu[ppirtEd hii adroit and rapid moveau
At the sound .'f the churli-b-lls, he ,>.nt Ibrth i'rom the l
pit a manly and magial :xloqulenoe, which painted to the1
and impressed on the heart the horrors of servitude andl 
delights of liberty, and preached a religion which, ace|
edging all men as brother., disclaimed and condemned slaI
and made his soldiers teil that in fighting tbr freedom
fought on the side of God and Christ. His sermon oa
resumed the soldier and the general, disappeared, flew,
peered, and seemed almost as if he po s se-ed a species of.
nipresence. All the time he had an army at his to
though where they wir., or what the number and resource
his troops, was hilldin to all but himself and a chosen
while, by means as sure as they were hidden, he learnt all 4
took place among his assailants. Moved by his author