L’Anse-d’Hainault. Named by Donat as one end of the country across which new epaulettes were paraded.

He resumed: “I say more: I say that to prolong the present state of things is impolitic and imprudent; the speed with which the Revolution has raised some to high military distinctions has awakened the pretensions of those who have had no share in its favors. (1) The sparks of discord that have come more than once to alarm us were fanned by desperate ambitions. The brilliant epaulettes paraded from L’Anse-d’Hainault to Santo-Domingo have excited covetousness. It seems to me urgent to put an end to a spectacle fit to feed greed further and to arm ambition. And let no one say that the many commissions, avowed or concealed, now in existence are necessary to the strengthening of the new order of things. What! Is a colonel’s epaulette at a hundred gourdes a month, or a major’s commission at fifty gourdes, then necessary to defend the public liberties? In the coat of the national guard, can one not protect the cradle of the Regeneration as effectively? From where did most of the officers commissioned by the Revolution come? Was it not from the ranks of the national guard? Let them return to it with the zeal they showed in the coat of the paid national guard, and the commonwealth will be equally secure.