The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1820-12-19 00:00:00

ST. DIMIAGO.

PROCLAMATION.
REPUBLIC OF HAYTI.
Prochtnation to the People and the Artuy of the Artihonite
and the North.

Jean Ptraae Verve, PRFSIDeIIT or HAYTI.
Citizens! Soldiers!—The horrid despotism under which
yen have groaned these last fourteen years, and the misery
you have unite, gone, appear to approach to their rid. The
tint effort for yuor liberty is given you by St. Marc., which
has just ranged itself under the banner of the Republic. It
”aa nothing, my dear countrymen, to have fought the
Vrench,to acquire our national isidept ndence, if a wise urge.
privation and a well-represeinid Government bad not come to
ignore, nut only fur our 1 rearm g• aeration, but to our
children, tae benefits of the church and the equality •of
sights; and in the end to guarantee a lung existence to re.
generated Haytians. It is for that object that the Represent.
lii;ves of the people are labouring, while Geueralairistoptie
ettasulted nothing bet hie ambition meal pawning. He anis-
need the authority which his rank gave bine; and at the head
of the army which had conquered our ancient tyrants, fell
Jibe a mad man upon that city, in which the Coostitueut
Assembly were sitting, and thus commented the civil war,
because our legiatalors bad thooglit proper to fix limits, to
the authority of the anigisirans. God did not permit that
Unit proud man should succeed in his dreadful projects; he
w 11M I.cd in his lint acct rcpt.,
The Gni erunient of the Republic has been organised
cu Ile rinciples of the Cotislittileon, emanating from the
general wish ; the laws, tepidly beneficial to all the citi-
zees, have established their empire ; and the State, with a
slow but firm step, lies invariably marched, since that
epoch, towards its roostilielation and ita prosperity; while
the phantom of pone.. which General Christophe had
%insipid over yon, has never ceased to fall from vitas.
trop) into catastrophe. The irou rod, which he delighted
in holding over your heads, has kually broken in his own
baud*.
Citizens ! Soldiers !—I shall not reeal to your minds all
the horrors which the Chief of the North, or .hie *gen.%
have abandoned themselves to : they are repuguant to my
heart, and I Widen to erase them from my itatigivation ;
lint vaunt me to revel to your minds that iscontestehle
trntli—" Wh irtue is fighting agsiost vice, the
triumph of 11w latter cannot be of long duration."—Such is
the will of the Most High.
lake my illustrious predecessor, Alexander Petitm,
fentoder of the Reptiblie, I b aye always ...zinc-lid with con.
ftdessee, that, tired of bring the unturiatiale instesimeois of
strolote posses, you would sootier or later resume your
ululated rights; and thus governed by your own interest
sad 14 wifely of the country, you would abandon hue who
had disregarded the tights of the people, nod who had
beeped ill kinds of misfultunes upon Hayti, by spreadiug
rivet it torrents of blood. The vainest eighth brigade, tog._
dor with the garrison of St. Marc, have just art you the
tkekille; hasten then tu fuUvw it, and all military Lek

who shall joie the Regnablie, and shall render any nominal
services, 1641 6 eottably rewarded.
To the dein( grief slid disgust is going to succeed that
of reunion oust fraternity. Inhabitants of the Arbonite and.
of the North! Soldiers! Companions in Arms! the Haynes*
have no more battles to light against eac► other. Let us
offer our thanksgiving to the Almighty—let us forget the
past—let us always be generous towards the unfortunate.
The armies of the Republic, which are stationed at St.
Mare, in the Ferrettes, at Calms, at St. Raphael, at Grande
Revierre, and at Valuer, are to be employed only for your
protection, and the protection of your dwelling., of you►
alit) property; they will touch nothing of what be-
longs to you, they will purchase and pay fur all that they
shall receive from yon. Hasten, then, my friends, to raise
in your respective districts the sacred tree of liberty, which
your tyrants have overthrown ; surround it, and give your-
selves up to joy; but above ■ll things, spare the blood of
your brethren, whatever cause you may have to reproach
them. The Republic does not wish foe bluntly conquest■;
she aspires only to that of the heart. If there are stay cri-
minals, let the klagistrstts do their duty. If they can jus-
tify themselves, let us forget the past, and occupy ourselves
wily with the future. Cubic with confidence, my children,
and enjoy the benefit of our laws, and cry with me, a lIIMW
Ftl..! times—Emig live the Republic of Hayti! Long live
ludepeodenee! Loss* live Liberty soil Equality!
Given at the National Pslace of St. Marc, October
1(41820, stud the 17th of the Independence,
By the President,
(Signed) ROYER.
The Secretary-General,
(Sigurd) B. INGINAC.

DILTIMORT, NOV 88888 14.
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