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 Sby the neck to the rocks of an uninhabited island,
 ied their last miserable sigh after wasting away during
 tndays. Thse abominable cruelties are not wholly with-
 lliekf. Captains of ship-, instead of casting the innocent
 ,put into their hands for the purpose, into the sea, sup-
 them at their own expense, and landed them on some of
 eighboring islands, or on some remote shore of Saint Do-
 None showed more humanity than Mazard, who em-
 as much zeal in saving victims as others did in destroy-
 them. I have," he said, deceived your tyrants; my
 is lacerated to see the land and the sea covered with vic-
 ; go into the mountains, rejoin your people, that posterity
learn rhat savages dragged to servitude have founded a
sw state; but pity men'n pa4,ions, aud leave your revenge to
 ,to remorse, to Heaven."
rAll the sea-captains didi not aIt. with the same elevation of
SThey did, indeed, vav.- the bla..ks from death, but their
rnduct was dictated by a bae at ari. e ; Ihey took them and sold
Pem as slaves in some neighboring island. On one of these
icasions, the Go-vernor of Porti-Rico madn this fine reply: "' If
ley are slaves, I will not purchase them; if they arefree men,
pa have not the right to sell them."
r:Nor wa the army without examples of virtue. There were
Ierals who, indignant at so many cruelties, uttered remon-
anees, or disobeyed inhuman commands. Allix, who com-
anded at Port-au-Prince, rel'used ten thousand shot intended
) be fastened to the feet of rittims to freedom. This act of
.anobedience, which was really a virtue, Rochambeau punished
y banishment. Other oflictrs were punished Ibr similar of-
*ees. Truly did the forcible eloquence of the Africans char-
.terize the war as a War of Cannibals."
::Suddenly the Soutlh, whi. l had bern tranquil, awoke at the
aIse of the puniahnirnti which sent from'the North and the
?ert corp-es to flnat on its shores. That province was peopled
defly by men of color, who possessed great wealth, and who
laowed themselves les than in other parts enemies of the