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 tmstances was both needful and virtuous; and, if the study
 *Necreev on hiq part was undue, let the failing be set down
 iast him at its full value. It has even been intimated that
 aen in- power he yielded to the fascinations of the accom-
 tIhed creole women of the Cape. But the intimation, faint
 indirect as it ii, rests on.no solid grounds. In truth, it was
 possible that a man of the origin and aims of Toussaint
iOuverture should hame escaped the shafts of calumny, and,
ler all due abntements are made, enough of excellence re-
las to command our admiration and win our esteem.
*'While, however, the world has seen but one Toussaint
OrOuverture, this history sets forth many black men who were
insess.ed of great faculties and accomplished great deeds.
Aid though the instance of their chief only Fhows what an cle-
ation men with a hlat.k skin may i rsibtly attain, there are in
Ae general tenor if this narrative prxoof< \vr ne meru n and ir-
W gfable that, in the ordinary powers and virtuess whi'h form
be texture andi ornament of civilized lifi, an African origin and
tegro blood involve no et-ential dilqualifiration.
SVery clear, certainly, has it appeared, that whether in its
tghts, its wrongs, its penalties, or its rewards, Justice the ever-
ring daughter of the eternal God, and the eer-present and
iwer-active admini~tratrix of divine Providence-knows noth-
fag whatever of the distinctions, the prejudices, the dislikes, or
Lte preference of color. An injury done toa European ceases
hit to be an injury when the ulffrrer is an African. Nor are
ireakers of (God' laws punished with lcss severity within the
*opics than they are in the temperate ones. Slavery, which
Sthe essence and the concentration of injustice,-Slavery,
*bhich from its foundation to its top-stone isone huge and fright-
tW accumulation of wrong~ of wrongs the hugest and the
rest, Slavery, which is the worst form of treachery to
'Han and treason against CGod, entails vengeance the most ter-
ible, the most awful; vengeance not less sure than dreadful
aIas I that in the scourge the innocent should suffer as well as
the guilty. The thought would sink the mind in grief, were
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