LIFE OF TOUSSAINT L'OUVERTURI.


dence. When near it, he was surrounded by crowds of
who shouted out, General, hare you abandoned us ?"'
 "No, my children," he answered; -all Nour brethren
under arms, and tihe roffierr iof all ranks ri-tain their postal'
 When Touisaint L'Oui rture lhad fiidl lin imelf in the
and delightful vall.'y o' Enntry, to ciuji.y tib- rerpo.e of pri
and domecitic lile, h. rbund or-upat.on a nei-e..ity, and.
pl~ycd his energyy in repairing and improving the dwell
the inhabitants, and i4rpnding around him other be
Though retired from the world, he wa. not l'oro:tten. Ge
and other ollil:. r -aI' ith French army, and strangrs
distant lands. cann. to., vi'it him, and were we'lcomedWith
affability whih war a part ofl hii nature. Exempt from
and disquietude, he li ed in the bo'jom of hi,- lAiuly as if he
been guarddd by an army. l-e rode over the country and
everywhere greeted with tok. n, of resp(:r.t.
 With the cessation of hostilHtie, band, of black troopa.;J 
scended from the mountainA, and the two armies mingli
together as brothers. Freedom rendered friendly those wb.
slavery had made deadly enemies. The population laid dow
their armo to ringagi, in the labor; lo rthie Illd. The dwelling
which the fiear .,I' s.rx'itu,'l had burned down, ro-e again mund
the reign of liberty. With a view to Ionfirm the peace, iB
captain of the expedition pat into the. hands of Christophe tS
polite of the North, and i)to Dessalir.es the police of the Wea
The cities which had been consumed were rebuilt. Vead
soon filled the ports. Commerce began once more to flourni
Ererything promised a smiling future. Sonjg were heard, aa
dances were seen in the villages. The whole country offered
proof how happy this world would be but ltr the disturbanai
occasioned by human passions.