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 CHAPTER III.
 ore tries to rle by creating jealousy and division l-treats the men
 Oedor Disarms the blacks An lsurrection ensues, and gatma had,
 -.matil it wresU from the violent hands of th General nearly all bls pos-
 Sseassions Leclerc dit Bonaparte resolves to send a new army to
 Baint Domingo.

 S the news of the deportation of Toussaint L'Onverture
 spread abroad, secret and deep discontent began to pre-
 which threatened disturbance, if not disaster. In vain
 lere tried to prevent these consequences of his own mis-
 a by a slow, concealed tyranny. He created division among
4e black chiefs by insinuating into their violent natures rivalry,
eualousy, and hatred; he set the ambition of one in opposition
|to the moderation of another; now he brought into contrast
Wlis man's fidelity with that man's want of fidelity; mingling
ladroitly together praises and enticements, favors and disgrace,
qinCouraging and rewarding mutual accusations. Special pains
bd e take to revive the old animosities between the blacks
ted the men of color,-animosities which in reality were only a
.eonsequencu of the difference in the servitude to which they
'*ere in common subject. As a result of this Machiavellian
policy, many officers of black and of mixed blood were pese-
euted, imprisoned, or banished to a distance. Of this number
:was Rigaud, nest to Toussaint the most renowned of all. He
*was arrested in the port of Saint Mare, whither be had been
:!sent as if to take a command. In his indignation, he threw Wi
wolrd into the sea to prevent its being sullied by traitors. He
:was sent to France, and, curiously enough, was, as we have seen,
voat into the prion which held Toussaint L'Ouverture. La,
 .iartinire, who had displayed the virtues of a champion of
 liberty behind the walls of Cr4te-&-Pierrot, was massacred ia