National Palace (Saint-Marc). Pierrot dates his address to the people and the army there.

“Given at the National Palace of Saint-Marc, 1 May 1845, year 42 of Independence. Louis Pierrot. This act, wholly paternal in form, seemed to announce an order of things calm, lawful and perfectly tranquil, though it was to prove one of the most troubled. Around Pierrot, at Saint-Marc, were gathered a crowd of citizens, particularly from Le Cap, of various ages: wholesale merchants, shopkeepers, pacotilleurs, speculators in produce, who until that day had busied themselves with nothing but selling, buying or barter, and who all at once, by improvisation, had become generals of engineers, of artillery and of cavalry. They offered everyone their goodwill and their protection with the Head of State for the obtaining of ranks and posts. Most of them wore handsome braided coats, magnificent white plumes, and glittering sabers that rang upon the ground.