0 0 NOTES AND TESTIMONIES.

an account is given of the great npero as to cause some wondli
that no one has till now be. n moen-l by it to present the fke6-
of his life in the lorm of an hirturi.-al no-vel. In that grticleit
is justly observ'-d that the .or:r, retsi with those who aocle i
Toussaint of hypotri-y to pro'e their all-gation by facts. I
.would say the si ule of the other chargee of cruelty. Meantime,
I disbelieve birth i harget., or these ra-onsi among others.
 The war. of Saint Duimin:. were .-ont ir:t:-dl in a most bar-
 barous spirit Li..lbre the timn- ,.t' T.:u.-.ainrt's avqrtistinn of powWt.
 and after his abduction. During the interval, the whole weight
 of his inllu-n:ir was giren t. (.urb the ferocity rf It-.h parties,
 Il- parI'-rned hi pe-r:snal ,.nimii..< ;u th, instan,. :- ol'the mulaL-*
 toes in thii-e.hurtLL), arnd i,- purinh.-l: in hi, own lollowers, as the
 most unpardonable ,trL.ri..' they r,,ild 'lommnnit. nay infringe-
 mient of-his nrle of No rPETALIATrI:N" Wh.en it ii conid.
 ered that the eru-elti,.- perpetrated in the ri-ing or' 1791, and
 renewed after the ihll of Tou'nairt, wer.- inventied by the
 whites, and copied Iby the nlnc:.-rx (who werre wont to imitate
 their masters in all thi-y did), it is no .,mall eiildence of L'O-
 rerture's magnanimity that he ,-c ncive-d, illusrrat:d. and en-
 forced, in such timeu utch a principle a3 that of No RETALIA-
 TION.
 All the accounts ol him a,.r>.i: that, frum his earliest child-
hood, he was distinguished Iy% a ti.nd'rnr.es of nature which
wonld not let him hurt a fly. IIL attached to himself the cattle :
and bores whi; h we-r-- indl r hii ib:arg,.- when a boy. to a de-
gree whi,:h made- him lhamin-u in a region where cruelly to ani-
manl at the lands of slave-i was almost unier-ral. A man who A
liUed till fiity, remarkable fri a -ingular gentleness and placa-
bilits, ou'ht not to be bclievcd sanguinary from that time for-
ward on the strengthh of thI unsupported lharpge of his disap-'
point.-d entemi.-.
 Pi-iyt wr-a, aslo.i. his undlipute'd -arly .-hara'-teritic. A slave,
 bringing to) the -uibject of religion the aptitude of the negroa-
 ture, early tr.atcd with kinJnc'-. by a priest, evinring the spirit
 of piety ti-om hil infant c-ars, finding in it the consolation