Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-12-27
Haytian Bureau Of Emigration.


our space will not allow us to present
them at present. We notice from the
p iae and Palm, which is the able organ
of the Haytian Emigration movement,
that the stream of emigration is swell
ing into a magnitude little known to the
community in general The Haytian
Government has issued the following
official
CALL FOR EMIGRATION:
"Men of our race dispersed IN the
United States! Your fate, your social
position, instead of ameliorating, daily
becomes worse. The chains of those
who are slaves are rlveted, and preju-
dice, more implacable, perhaps, than
servitude, pursues and crushes down the
Everything is contested with US in that
free country in which, nevertheless, they
boast of liberty; they have invented a
new slavery for the free, who believed
that they had now no masters; it is this
humiliating patronage which is revolt
ing to your hearts. Philanthropy, in
spite Of its noble efforts, seems more
! nowerless than ever to lead your cause
to victory. Contempt and hatred in
crease against you, and the people of the
United States desire to eject you from
its bosom.
Come, then, to us! the doors of Hay
are open to you. By happy coincidence,
which Providence seems to have brought
about in your behalf, Hayti has risen
from the long debasement in which a
tyrannical government had held her;
liberty is restored there. Come and
join US; come and bring to lis a contin-
gent of power, of light, of labor; come,
and together with US, advance our own
common country in prosperity. We
will come by this means to the aid of
the philanthropists who make such
generous efforts to break the chains of
slavery.
Our institutions are liberal. The
government is mild and moderate
Our soil is virgin and rich-we have
large tracts of good land, nearly all un-
cultivated, which only need Intelligent
workmen to till them. Everything as
sures you in this country of happy fu-
ture. For those among you who
possess capital, it will be easy to find at
once place among Us. The country
offers them immediate resources. They
can count on the solicitude of the Gov
ernment, and on its special protection.
Our society is ready to adopt them and
prepares for them fraternal welcome.
They will enjoy here all the considera-
tions that they merit; they will occupy
the rank that their responsibility assigns
them-all the things that blind and
barbarous prejudice refuses to them in
countries inhospitaDle to our race.
| The poorer emigrants shall have the
right to all that their situation demands.
The Government will provide for their
first necessities, and will take the proper
measures to secure to them quiet and
honorable asylum, as well as to facilitate
for them the means Of obtaining en-
ployment.
| 1t Is very natural that you should ask,
before coming to an unknown country,
what are the facilities that will be af-
forded to you, as well for the satisfac-
| ton OF your first needs, as for your
deinitive settlement. This thought has
seriously occupied the Chief of the Re-
public and his Government.
proceed to state the deterninatio
to which it has come:
To such of you as are not able to pay
the expenses of your passage, aid will
be given from the public treasury.
Agents, whom l shall presently ap-
point in the United States, will be
charged to make the necessary arrange
ments in this respect,
On their arrival here, the emigrants
will find lodging gratuitously, where,
during the first few days, their needs
will be provided for.
Government will occupy itself from
this time with providing means to offer
to each person, on arrival, either on pri-
vate estates OF the public domains: suf-
fciently remunerative work.
Every individual, the issue Of African
blood, may, Immediately on arrival, de-
clare his wish to be naturalized: and af-
ter one years residence, he can become
a citizen of Hayti, enjoying all Ills civil
and political rights.
The emigrants will be exempt from
military service, but their children,
when they are of the requisite age, shall
be held to perform the service conform
ably to the laws of the country; that is
to say, for limited time, and by the
result of conscription. Par suite du
tirage au sort] This conscription does
not constitute, in their favor, a modif-
cation of the law on the National Guard,
of which every citizens must form a
part.
You will have power, also, freely to
exercise your religion.
1 have spoken here only of the mem
bers of the African race, who groan in
the United States more than elsewhere,
by reason of the ignoble prejudice Of
color; but our sympathies are equally
extended to all those of our origin who,
throughout the world, are bowed down
under the weight of the same suferings.
Let them come to us! The bosom of
the country is open to them also. |
repeat it; they VIII be able to acquire,
either on the public or private estates,
fertile lands, where, by the aid of assid-
uous labor, they will find that happine
which, in their actual condition, they
cannot hope to find.
The man whom God has pointed out
with his finger to elevate the dignity of
his race, is found.
The hour Of the reunion of the chill
dren of Hayti is sounded! Let them
be well convinced that Hayti is the bull
work of their liberty!