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 paleness; his steps were hasty and uncertain; his eyes wers
 wild. Yes, here is a man deeply suffering under the stings caj.i'
 remorse. His nervous and agitated efforts to make it clear--.:
 very clear, beyond a question- that Toussaint has died of a
 natural cause, demonstrate that he knows more than he dares
 reveal, and has contracted a guilt that he would fain conceal
 even from his own eyes. But the keys of the dungeon were in
 his possession; and the words, The prisoners want nothing,"
 and the food recently carried thither; these facts -known to
 our authority,* and known to Captain Colomier, and known to
 other inmates of the castle declare that murder has been.
 committed. Yes; now we see why Mars Plaisir has been sent
 away. And now we see why this remote, solitary, wild, and
 freezing prison has been chosen. And now we see why Tou*
 saint L'Ouverture was entrapped. The series of crimes it
 consummated.
 -Still the question returns, What will be the opinion of the
 world ? Medical men were called in. The head was opened
 Sthe brain was scrutinized. It is apoplexy,", the authorities
 said; and apoplexy was set down in the formal report made as
 to the cause of Toussaint's death. Possibly so; but what pro.
 duced the apoplesy? Ask Captain Colomier,-ask the mayorti
 of the distriLt. They were both required to state that death h.':
 taken place by some cause different from hunger, and they both
 refused I
 Yes; what was the opinion of the world? The world bs'
 lieed and declared that there had been foul play. That be
 gained prevalence in Saint Domingo, and added fuel to
 flames of wrath which, without this new brand, burned
 intensest fierceness, consuming the French army, and maki
 their longer stay in the island an impossibility.
 Thus, in the beginning of April, in the ear 180:3, did TO
 saint L'Ouverture. A grandson of an African king, he pe
 S the greater number of' his days in slavery, and rose to be-'
 See panicularly Mitral's Histoire de IExpdion dea Frantla iS9
 Domingue," p. 201, seq.





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