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Foreign News
May 18, 1849
The Daily National Whig
Washington, District Of Columbia
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Faustin Soulouque, President of Hayti, issues a proclamation on March 8, 1849, from Lascahobas, exhorting eastern citizens to reconcile with the republic, end divisions, and restore national unity, promising respect for local property, customs, and religion.
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Presidential Bowlougas:
In the Jamaica despatch of the 21st ult., we find a proclamation that may give the reader some idea of the character of the Haytien President :
PROCLAMATION.
Faustin Soulouque President OF Hayti
Fellow-citizens of the East: I come in person to exhort you to reconciliation and peace with the legal government of the Republic. Put an end to our dissensions and rejoin your brethren and your fellow-countrymen; we cannot be enemies, because we are of the same race, and, above all, we are united by the fraternity of blood. We cannot have but one and the same country, and form but one and the same people, except under the penalty of abdicating all--independence, nationality, the future. The moment has arrived for you to decide; and dread lest when too late, and when your eyes become opened, your irremediable loss will have left you only a vain and impotent repentance.
You have suffered ; I know it. But since you have detached yourselves from the Republic, have your sufferings diminished? Have they not, on the contrary, filled the measure? Since you have divided our common country, are you quite sure of having founded another more happy, more free, and more independent ? In breaking up the national unity, in dividing the territory, is it that, disuniting heart and soul on this divided soil, we shall afterwards be stronger against foreigners who might wish to enslave us. I adjure you, fellow citizens, open your eyes to the abyss to which your imprudence is leading you. Retrace your steps. there is still time I should esteem as the most glorious event of my administration, your reconciliation with the Republic--your return to the bosom of our common country, whose destinies are confided to me. I promise you-and I make a solemn engagement before the world--I promise you that your property, your manners, your usages, your religion, (which is also ours) shall be scrupulously respected. You shall henceforth have laws more conformable to the manners. usages, and interest of your locality. You will there co-operate more freely and more efficaciously than you ever could under any other form of government. You will have the magistrates and functionaries of your choice ; but for the love of God and our country, save the national unity. Unite our forces rather than weaken them rather than endanger our future with fratricidal struggles.
The army that accompanies me is not an army of enemies; it is a support, a succor for the true Haytians of the east, with whom they come to fraternize. Your enemies are those who remain deaf to my appeal, and try to oppose our reconciliation, by arming you against us-against your brethren. If there are any such among you, they conspire against the liberty and nationality of the Haytien people. Do you not, then, see that they are betraying you, and that it is time to deal out justice to them ?
Live the Constitution! Live Liberty! Equality Live the Union! Live the Indivisibility of the Territory!
Given at Head Quarters, Lascahobas, 8th March 1849.
SOULOUQUE.
L. Durrene, Secretary General.
In the Jamaica despatch of the 21st ult., we find a proclamation that may give the reader some idea of the character of the Haytien President :
PROCLAMATION.
Faustin Soulouque President OF Hayti
Fellow-citizens of the East: I come in person to exhort you to reconciliation and peace with the legal government of the Republic. Put an end to our dissensions and rejoin your brethren and your fellow-countrymen; we cannot be enemies, because we are of the same race, and, above all, we are united by the fraternity of blood. We cannot have but one and the same country, and form but one and the same people, except under the penalty of abdicating all--independence, nationality, the future. The moment has arrived for you to decide; and dread lest when too late, and when your eyes become opened, your irremediable loss will have left you only a vain and impotent repentance.
You have suffered ; I know it. But since you have detached yourselves from the Republic, have your sufferings diminished? Have they not, on the contrary, filled the measure? Since you have divided our common country, are you quite sure of having founded another more happy, more free, and more independent ? In breaking up the national unity, in dividing the territory, is it that, disuniting heart and soul on this divided soil, we shall afterwards be stronger against foreigners who might wish to enslave us. I adjure you, fellow citizens, open your eyes to the abyss to which your imprudence is leading you. Retrace your steps. there is still time I should esteem as the most glorious event of my administration, your reconciliation with the Republic--your return to the bosom of our common country, whose destinies are confided to me. I promise you-and I make a solemn engagement before the world--I promise you that your property, your manners, your usages, your religion, (which is also ours) shall be scrupulously respected. You shall henceforth have laws more conformable to the manners. usages, and interest of your locality. You will there co-operate more freely and more efficaciously than you ever could under any other form of government. You will have the magistrates and functionaries of your choice ; but for the love of God and our country, save the national unity. Unite our forces rather than weaken them rather than endanger our future with fratricidal struggles.
The army that accompanies me is not an army of enemies; it is a support, a succor for the true Haytians of the east, with whom they come to fraternize. Your enemies are those who remain deaf to my appeal, and try to oppose our reconciliation, by arming you against us-against your brethren. If there are any such among you, they conspire against the liberty and nationality of the Haytien people. Do you not, then, see that they are betraying you, and that it is time to deal out justice to them ?
Live the Constitution! Live Liberty! Equality Live the Union! Live the Indivisibility of the Territory!
Given at Head Quarters, Lascahobas, 8th March 1849.
SOULOUQUE.
L. Durrene, Secretary General.
What sub-type of article is it?
Political
Rebellion Or Revolt
What keywords are associated?
Hayti Proclamation
Soulouque
Reconciliation
National Unity
Eastern Hayti
Political Division
What entities or persons were involved?
Faustin Soulouque
L. Durrene
Where did it happen?
Hayti
Foreign News Details
Primary Location
Hayti
Event Date
8th March 1849
Key Persons
Faustin Soulouque
L. Durrene
Outcome
proclamation calls for reconciliation, promises respect for local customs and unity; warns against division and betrayal.
Event Details
President Soulouque personally exhorts eastern citizens to end dissensions, rejoin the republic, and restore national unity, emphasizing shared race and blood, promising protection of property, manners, usages, religion, and local laws and officials, while portraying his army as support and identifying opponents as betrayers.