Les Cayes. Pétion is ordered to march there against the armed rebels

Your express messenger, general, arrives this moment, at eleven o’clock; I send him back at once. You will take the necessary number of troops from your division and go without delay to Les Cayes; once there, you will act with all possible vigor against the rebels who are under arms, cultivators, soldiers and the rest. If the rebellion is dispersed, you will arrest all the officers of every rank of the 13th demi-brigade who have demanded money; you will do the same with all the officers of the other corps, if they have been in that case; you will spare no one; you will have the leaders of the rebels among the cultivators arrested; the least resistance is to be punished with musket shots. DESSALINES.