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Toussaint Louverture's Lesson to His Country.
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tinction of being the liberator of his people from the yoke of the French dominion. But he was the precursor; he imbued the men of his race with great hopes and high ambition; he taught them, by his own example, that power was accessible to those who knew how to fight and be victorious. At the very moment when he was breathing his last, blacks and mulattoes whom his misfortunes had forever firmly united were engaged in a desperate struggle with a view of reaching the goal the road to which he had pointed out to them at the cost of his life and liberty.
