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phetic words will have accomplishment; nor ever will thej.l..
fulfilled until slavery is blortted out of Ameria, and is kag
no more in the world.
 From the plantation where' he was arrested to Gonaive
troops had beLen plat e d from listance to ditrancer along the roa
At midnight, the prisoner wa tak on on oiard a French irigai
called th. Cr,:ole." 'The .r'fi-- r who conimu:ant:d the ship W
touched, ,.'n 1t tear's, at the lot of that vi,.rim ot' the basael
treabrhry. TI~'v saik'-,l Iibr th.- Cape, whinre Toii-jaint was trans..
r'err.-'. to thl I Horn, -whii.h wairc.I flr them oif tht port. "Adie
Captain," said thlt- anpli i., :., I -aling the Creole; *I shadll
remembtr iou till nmy lait sigh \When he rTZeathe' the Herj'i
he found in his armns St. Jtan L'Ouvertrtlre-, the very son, wbo.
on a brighter day, had been r-tronr-d to him 1b. L.cle-rc. PL*('t
cide L'Ouverture wa- arrretel next da.. Isaai: "wa at Enneryst
Ignorant that his Iather had hre-n tsizt'l, he wa4 tranqailly
reading, about seven o'cl.x-k in thr mnruing., vwhn he was startled:
by a brisk firing, Ihllowed by tlarLrin, i ri-s'. Hast-ning froi
the room, he bh-held latborert., c.-ru.-n, and .:hildrten, running!
hither and thith.r in terrr.r, an'd fromt three to lour hund
French s.lhliers thfing on tllt'm in puruu;t. A servant urg
him to fly. II' 1-nr,.-] th-t c-iil had b..Iallt-n his- lther, hb
remained. Forthwith he wagt arr"-tr.-l. The otlic:r told h'
that his lather lihad bi n I:ril.,rkeil, and that he had orJerm r
General Brunet t.'. aptprthinI hili ai.l all the family; addi
that he should nt have fired\ ocn the people, had thy-v not
tempted to bar bii 1a's-a;g The nrmney and the papers belong
ing to Ttussainit .'Ouvetrture were tak. n pus;s-inon ol0 T
house was rifled; iri'olence was add-d to- robbery. Ma
Toussaint and htr niece were arrivedd 01't. Ouly a heart
ttone." savs I-aa- L'Ouverture,* who hab described the w
scene, "Loul thil tI bie ltenfrin.-l by the t,-ar and the lamen
tionls of the minr, l. w,, nr-nm an, thl ..l. illnr n who were
ent, and who ldeplired h,..r (1Malanie Triu.'-rit'-) 1.t, when
was Ibrever qulittln.- her .:.untr.y. a part ol' her family, and
 M* Almoirch dlI.uaa', ill i j lous6aint L'Oivr rtare," &c., p. 309.
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