832 NOTES AND TESTIMONIEB.

 Ever zealous for the redstablishment of order and of
Toussaint L'Ouverture, by a paternal government, restored t
original energy to law, morality, religion, education, and indu
try. Agriculture and commerce weru flourishing; he was .
vorable to white colonists, espci-idly to those who occupied ne*A
poseesions; and the care and partiality which he Melt for thig
went so far that he was severely censured as being more a
tached to them than to people of his own color. This negi
wail was not without reason; for some months pr-vious to tCI
arrival of the French, he put to death his own nephew,
eral Moise, for having disregarded hi: orders relative to It.
protection of the colonists. This a' t or the Governor, auk:
the great confidence which he had in the French Government,:
were the chief' causes of the weak resistance which the Freues%
met with in Hayti. In reality, his confidence in that Goverzp.
meant was so great, that the General had dliandid the great,
part of the regular troops, and employed them in the cultivatic.,q
of the ground.
 "Such was the state of affairs wbilt the peace of Amieni
was being negotiated; it was scarcely concluded, when a pow~i
erful armament landed on our coasts a large army, which, a.:
tacking us by surprise?, when we thought ourselves perfectly q,':
cure, plunged us suddenly into an abyss of etils.
 "Posterity will fnd a ilifi(ulty in believing that, in so exi:
lightened and philosophic an age, u..b an abominable enterpria.q
could possibly have been conceived. In the midst of a civiliz
people, a horde of barharians suddenly set out with the design
of exterminating an. inneut nt and peaceable nation, or at Ile
of loading them anew with the chaino of national slavery.
 It was not enough that they employed violence; they
thought it necessary to use perfidy and villany,- they wei
compelled to sow dissension among us. Every means was i
in requisition to carry out this abominable scheme. The leader
of all political parties in France, even the sons of the Gove.j
Toussaint, were invited to take part in the e-xpedition.The
as well as ourselvt%, were deceived by that chef-d' ema or