TOUSSAINT L'OUVERTURE.


country, Spaniards had employed dogs to run down the
opent savages. Frenchmen of the nineteenth century re-
ed that they had at their command a resource so effectual,
I must add, so diabolical. Rochambeau, however, sent a
ael to the isle of Cuba to purchase dogs whose nature, under
O's training, made them fit for the work of hunting human
ings. When this ship appeared at the fort of the Cape,.
res of the colonists went to receive them on the shore, and
ide the air resound with cries of joy; they put garlands on
w necks, and strewed their path with flowers. Some degraded
smselves so far as to cover those instruments of their ven-
mce with kisses. To what extravagances does slavery lead I
experiment must be made. In the court-yard of a convent
sort of amphitheatre was erei ted, which was filled with a
altitude panting for negro blood. The victim was bound to
ost. The dog, sharpened by extreme hunger, were no
per let loose than they tore the poor wretch to pieces. The
ing animals disputed with each other the palpitating mem-
ps, and the ground was dyed with human blood and canine
. A report spread among the blacks, that, at the last
an of that pitiable creature, the heavens opened and received
soul.
This kind of death, with circumstances more or less frightful,
jme common, until cruelty, dispensing with all forms, dis-
ifully cast human beings to the dogs, who were kept in
Near the city; and when the appetite of the animals, sat-
ld with human flesh and gore, refused any longer to destroy,
g.,word finished the bloody work: showing that man's pas-
& surpass in atrocity those of wild beasta. Indeed, language
ld of terms to describe the crimes which the lust of unjust
iWer perpetrated. New expressions were invented. The
frning of two or three hundred human beings was called "a
Shaul;" death on a gallows was "a step upward;" to be
1 is pieces by dogs was to enter the arena." Some execu-
ger ained celebrity ; the name of Tombarel long continued
iake men shudder. The sea and the rivers were stained
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