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1808-01-11

Gérin, posted at the Boucassin, resigns his seat in the Senate by letter.

Haitian

“Boucassin, 11 January 1808, Year V.

“Étienne-Élie Gérin, general of division, commanding the department of the South, to the Senate of the Republic.

“Citizens Senators,

“Having felt my slight vocation for the kind of declamation that suits deliberations, I had, in the month of March of the year just expired, begged the Senate to name a member in my place. Members, whose consideration I am honored by (sic), made me feel the bad effect that my retirement from the Senate would produce (sic), and above all at a moment when the President of the Republic had just been elected. I attended the sessions (sic) of the reception, though tacitly keeping the sentiment of my resignation. Here are ten months elapsed since that moment. The deliberations have gone their course none the less. Thus of what use would I be, today when my poor head, besieged by all that I see and by all that I do not see, makes me feel more than ever the necessity of fleeing public charges?

“Thus, my dear fellow citizens, I believe I can without fear beg you to name a subject worthy of the place and of you to mine (sic).

Source  ·  p. 88 Joseph Saint-Rémy (des Cayes), Pétion et Haïti: étude monographique et historique, tome 5 (Paris: Auguste Durand, 1857), p. 88; English translation, Rasanblaj.