Excerpt from The History of Toussaint Louverture: A New Edition, With a Dedication to His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of All the Russias

How would it have cheered the gloom bf that solitary dungeon in which this great man' re signed his gallant spirit, had he been assured that an arm more powerful than his own would shortly vindicate on his oppressor, the rights of suffer ing humanity! But could he also i have foreseen that with that arm Would 'be found a heart, the seat of every. Generous. Affection, a soul en nobled by every elevated sentiment, the unhappy hero would perhaps have lost the remembrance of all his sonbws, while he indulged the animating hope now cherished by every friend to the same sacred cause - the hope that Alexander.

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