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 Work he had undertaken, and by whose hand he
 I ded and protected ? Was his country, after all, to
 the dishonorable yoke of servitude ? Adversity
 ily ordinary men. Toussaint took courage even from

 ~ he learned that Dessalines had imitated Christophe
 the ranks of the enemy. This was the second heavy
 ousaint did not so much regard the individual loss of
 o leaders, nor the loss of the troops they carried with
 Ifr the los of the lands they commanded, as the loss of
 influence which must ensue, and the perplexity in
 le found himself as to who was and who was not trust-
 His best captains, Chri rophe, Dessalines, Laplume,
 ntx, his two brothers, his nephew w-re in the camp of his
 Where could he be sure to find men worthy of his confl-

 ider these circumstances it was that Leclerc put every
 Into action in order to indue.- Toussaint to come to an
 action. The Captain-Greneral was the more desirous
 a result because, though he knew that Toussaint's power
 broken, he knew also that the population at large were
 y alienated from his own Government, and might at any
 t be roused to a resistance more determined and more
nary than what they had made already. With a view to
Itse the hardly suplj-rsled ill-humor, Lcclerc had sent
ud out of the i-land, Lhoping thereby to gain some favor
 the blacks. The elfrltt dn the whole was inconsiderable.
ie after their treachery, the negro chiel; were idols, while
bechmen were objects of inditlerence or detestation. This
ihasted feeling was ob-erved, and is spoken of by an eye-
aiess thus:-
r".On arriving at the Cape, I had occasion to make very
Riae reflections. I saw many of our general officers in full
llfom pass by; the inhabitants, no matter what their color,
laed no sign of exterior deference. Suddenly I heard a
Ir--it was General Dessalines; he came for the .fst time
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