Port-au-Prince. Men of color and whites enter together; Caradeux and Bauvais arm in arm.

The next day, 24 October, the men of color, about two thousand in number, entered Port-au-Prince in solemn procession together with the whites. Caradeux and Bauvais marched at their head, arm in arm. Whites and freedmen embraced and swore to one another to remain forever united. Amid the general enthusiasm, Caradeux was proclaimed general of the national guards of the West, and Bauvais second in command. The freedmen occupied the government palace under the orders of Bauvais, and the quarter of the Bel-Air under the orders of Aubrant. A few days later they were reinforced by the men of color of the Mirebalais, commanded by Borno the elder, by those of the Arcahaie with Lapointe at their head, and by those of the Petite-Rivière of the Artibonite, of Saint-Marc, of the Verrettes and of Jacmel. Lapointe went to the registry of the municipality, had all the judgments rendered against the people of color before and since the revolution handed over to him, and gave them to the flames.