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 i: ldier, a general, a governor. He possessed a rare genius, the
 i-ficiency of which was augmented by an unusual power of sel-
 Sconcealment. His life lay in thought and in action rather than
 in words. Self-contained, he was also self-sufficing. Though
.he disdained not the advice of others, he was in the main his
own council-board. With an intense concentration of vitality in
his own soul, he threw into his outer lile a power and an energy
which armed one man with the power of thousands, and made
him great alike in the command of others and in the command
of himself. He was created for government by the hand of
Nature. That strength of soul and self-reliance which made
him fit to rule also gave him subjects for his sway. Hence it
Was that he could not remain in the herd of his fellow-slaves.
Rise he must, and rise he did; firt to humble offices, then to
the command of a regiment, and then to the command of "the
armies of Saint Domingo."
 To the qualities which make an illustrious general and states-
 man, there were added, in Touasaint' soul, the milder virtues
 .that form the ?trength and the ornament of domestic life.
 Great as he was in the field and in the cabinet; scarcely lesm
 greatt and more estimable was he as a husband and a father.
 j.There his excellences shone without a shade. The sacrifice of
 I& sons to the duty which he owed to his country only illus-
 trates the intensity of a patriotism which could extort so pre-
 dous a possession from a father's hands.
 1 But he had learned his duty from the lips of One who taught
 e..We to make the love of children and parents subordinate to
 love of himself; and assured that he had in some special
 Luanner been called and sent to set the captive free, he, in a
 4"tive benevolence ot character which the gospel enriched,
 strengthened and directed, concentrated all the fine endow-
 aents of his soul on the great work of negro emancipation.in
 c island of hs birth.
 iHis mind appeared in his countenance and his manner, yet
 y as if under a veil. His looks were noble and dignified,

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