Jérémie. Attacked by the country people under Jason Domingo and repulsed by the citizens

As soon as Bergerac Trichet and the 18th had left Jérémie on the march to Port-au-Prince, Thomas Durocher went through the countryside, came to an understanding with Jason Domingo, an influential cultivator, and persuaded him to put himself at the head of the country people, whose liberty was threatened, and to assail the town. Jason Domingo came to terms with Citizens Bazile and César Novelet, bold and intrepid cultivators, drew them into the party of revolt and agreed with them that they would take up arms on 6 January. On the day fixed, all the country people of the commune of Jérémie rose. On the 8th they came, with Jason Domingo at their head, to attack the town. The citizens of Jérémie, who were not expecting this aggression, ran to arms, gathered in haste, put up a vigorous resistance to the insurgents and drove them far off. Durocher, who had secretly stirred up this revolt, appeared to the townspeople to have no part in it at all; he even condemned it most energetically. The 18th had reached the Bézin plantation, in the quarter of Nippes, when it learned of the attack on Jérémie; it turned back and returned to its cantonment. A few days later it was known that Christophe had raised the siege of Port-au-Prince. Bergerac Trichet and Thomas Durocher, seeing no serious chance of the revolt succeeding, took no active part in it; they even feared being compromised, and studied by their conduct to keep all suspicion from themselves. They made clandestine approaches to the principal chiefs of the insurrection to bring them back to their duty for the time being; but they could not govern the movement. The insurgents resolved to give themselves a chief of some influence. They turned to Goman, commander of one of the battalions of the 19th of Anse-d’Hainault, an officer much distinguished by his courage and by the long services he had rendered his country since 1794 under General Rigaud. * He received them favorably and put himself at their head, after vain efforts to draw his battalion into the revolt. He proclaimed himself the avenger of Dessalines. Such was the origin of the insurrection of the Grand’Anse, which President Boyer succeeded in extinguishing only in 1819, after it had worn itself out in fourteen years of resistance. For some time it was only feebly opposed by the 18th of Jérémie, which in 1806 had accepted the revolt against Dessalines with marked disapproval.