TOo0sAarT L'OIuvanBU z.

 Monts, now in appearance blind, deaf, lame, and eW
 t fugitives, made light of toil, peril, and torture in a
 qIrhich religion, as well as civil obedience, seemed to
 exact.
 dierent bodies of the French army, who believed Tons-
 ined, if not dead, felt his blows on every side. As
 ed to the Cape, or to Port-au-Prince, he disturbed
 beat them, worried them, alike in their communications,
 attacks, in their marches, in their retreat. Everywhere
 Salary and dread. When the soldiers entered the
 Toussaint appeared in its suburbs. The city required
 and defenders. The blacks, if they appeared to be
 proved to be enemies in reality. With all dispatch,
 raised anew the fortifications of a town in which, more
 .ver, the party of servitude and the party of liberty dis-
 and contended. In that war no man knew his neighbor;
 ed side by side with your enemy; you slept under the
 roof;ewou ate at the same table with him, and yet you
 whim not; for there were blacks on the side of the Consul,
 Here were whites on the side of Toussaint. At length,
 were taken up. The ships supplied cannon, and the sailom
brought on shore tn fight. Only the more vigor did Toms-
 put forth, and the city was about to become his prey when
 troops arrived from France, and the black hero thought it
 t to retire.
 Position of Le, lerc had become one of extreme difficulty.
*pinful experience he had learned with what singular ene-
1 he had to contend. Of what use was it to continue a war
rhih victories cost so much and were so readily effaced by
raes? Already had he lost five thousand men in battle; a
numberr. ;ick or wounded, were in the hospitals. Besides,
Fwar offered no reward. What glory was there even in
ly subjugating ,emi-barbari-n Lla'ks ? Conquest, instead
priching the soldier, only carried him into burning towns or
rt mountains. The arm)' murmured; the climate was in-
 ; the work they had to perform was repulsive "The
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