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• • -* .it-. »• . . ■ * , JM[TRANSLATION.}Extrafl from a Proclamation iiTjed by Dfeffalines, General in Chict df the indegenous army at Saint Domingo, on cr *b%ut the loth of januaryu The First Tear of the Indepcn-denccof the people oj HaytU 1,H Citizens Countrymen, . ^ , u I have afiembled on this folemn | day thole brave military men, who, on the eve of collefting the lad breath of j ! liberty, have lavifhed their blood to favc jit.—Thofe generals who have guidedyour efforts again it tyranny, have not yet done enough for your happinefs. j The French name dill hangs your c«un»| try with mourning—every tiling traces i back the remembrance of the crueltiesi of that butchering peonle.—Our laws, our manners* our towns, all If ill wear the French image—what do 1 fay ! there cxifts Frenchmen in £ur illand, and you I think yourfclyet free and independent ofthat Republic, which, it is true, has combated again 1\ all nations, hut which has never vanqujfhed thole who would; i ; ■ . | \ 3 iAh ! what viAims of credulity and indulgence during fourteen years—V an-quifbed, not by French arms, but by thedeceitful eloquence of the proclamations of their agents; When fhall we get tired of breathing the fame air with them ? What have we in common with a people who commit fuch cruelties ? Compared to our patient moderation, their colour to ours, the extent of the feas which feparate us, our avenging clime—all tell us fufRciently they are not our brothers—that they never willbecome fo—-and that if they find refugearnongfi us, they will ffill be the plotters of troubles and divifions*Indigenous Citizens, Men, Women, Gvrli and Children—caff your eyes a-round every part of this iiland— Seek you therein your wiv^s, your hulbands, your br thers, ydnr fifTrs ?—Whkt do I City—ferk you therein your children, your lucking babe*. ? What is becomeof thetn 'lt;—the prey oi French vut* tures ! Infiead of thefe endearing ob-jedis, the rye, difmayed, beholds theiralfatfini, like tigers trickling yet with blood, whofe prefence reproaches your infeniibdity and guilty slownef* in a-Ringing thcni*^;;^^^^ {Remember that you have done nothing if you do not give nations a tftrr/s-ble but juft example of that vengeance:, which a people, proud of having recovered their liberty and jealous of maintaining it, ought u ex rate.—Let us terrify all thofV who would dare attempt to ravifh it from us—Let us begin withthe French*0 lt;Gen. D flyiines arrived at Aux-Cayes from Port-au-Prince t.ie day before captain Fowler of the fehooner Eagle left that port. On bis arrival he order- | ed the late comma: dant to be amfted, | and thrown into pit ion ; and thus terminated the work of deliruAion which ! for fame time back bad been progrefltr.g in that unfortunate iilaod.
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Washington National Intelligencer and Washington Advertiser
Washington, Washington-DC, US
Mon, Mar 19, 1804
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