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Show 7'2 The herald's line of long renown, The mitre and the kingly crown,Perishincr glories all ! The pure devotion of thy gener.o ~s heart ' Shall live in Heaven, of which lt IR a part. TOUSSAINT L'OUVllllTURE. [ToV SSA INT L'OU\"l:l>.TUH. t: ,lhc black chi cft11.in ofllayti, wns :s. 11\avc on the plantatiun nf 1\1. llayun de Lihcrta s. \\' hen the gen eral rising of the ncgmes took place, in 1791, 'l'o11ssuint refused to join them, until lw h:ul aided i\1, Uay1m am\ his family to escape to Ualtimore. Th t~ white man had di scovered in Toussaint many noble qualities , and had ins truc ted him in some of the first hra ncbe;; of ctlucation ; and the prescn ·ati on of his life was o wiu ~ to the negro's gratitude fur this k indncss. In 1797, Totts:-=aint L'Ouvcrture wall appointed, by the French G!n'enunent, General- in-l'hief of the armic8 of St . Domingo, and as such, signed the C01wcntion with Gem~ rall\Iaitbnd, for the evacuation of the island Ly the Driti sh. From th i:; pr ri oJ un t il lSOJ, the island, un1lcr the gr,1·crnment ofToussaint. was happy, tranquil, and pmsperous . The mi :;erahle attempt of Napoleon to re-establish slavery in St. Domingo, alth ough it f;~.il cd of its intended object, prol'ed fawl to th e Negro ehicfmiu. TrNJ.chcrously seized hy Leclerc, he wa >~ hurricJ on board a vessel hy ni ght, and conveyed to !''ranee, where he w:l s confinctl in a cold subterranean 1hmgcon, at De!ancon, w1wre, in Ap1·i\, JS03, he 1\ietl. The trc~ttm c nt of Toussaint find» a parallel only in the murder of the Duke d'Enghein. It was the remark of Godwin, in hi,; Lccttu·cs , that the \Vest lndia i sland:~, sinrc their first di scovery hy Columht~s , could not boasl of a single name which tlcserl'es comparison with that of ToussAINT L'OuvJ-:n TUJtt:.] |