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1822-08-30

Darfour presents an incendiary memorial; he and others arrested

Haitian

On Friday 30 August 1822, the citizen Darfour went to the Chamber of Communes and presented there a memorial tending to destroy the institutions and to overturn the State. This incendiary memorial was read on the spot. The people, indignant at the contents of this memorial, went in a crowd into different quarters of the town, and arrested the citizen Darfour, the deputies Bérenger and Laborde of the commune of Port-au-Prince, Saint-Laurent and Saint-Martin, of the communes of the Cayes and of the Cap-Haitien, Pierre André, judge of the tribunal of Cassation, and Noël Piron, dean of the civil tribunal of the capital. The citizen Dugué took flight. These men were led to prison to be tried. The Chamber expelled its above-named members, and called on their substitutes to come and replace them. Darfour was executed in September. Darfour was an African; he was admitted as a citizen of Haiti like all men descended from African blood.

Rouzier tells this under the entry PORT-AU PRINCE [le].

Source  ·  p. t. III, p. 471 Sémexant Rouzier, Dictionnaire géographique et administratif universel d'Haïti (t. III) (1927), p. t. III, p. 471