Lescahobes. Lazarre is ordered there to reinforce the Cachiman line.

“In sending you to the frontier, my orders were that after the taking of Las-Cahobas and of the line of the Cachiman you should remain fixed at that place: but the ardor of victory had carried you beyond Las-Matas; my dispositions not yet being settled for a regular campaign, you received the order to retrace your steps. That order was absolute and was to preserve the advantages you had won over the rebels, when the spirit of plunder, seizing upon your chiefs (*) and upon you, made you the victims of an enemy among whom your presence had carried terror.

“Soldiers, you are in sufficient number to guard the frontier; the enemy is no more a man than you are, to hold you in check; you have only to recall your discipline, and he will not dare to look you in the face.

“If the army, unworthy of its renown, lets itself be deceived by the wicked who desire the ruin of the country, it will be an eternal stain upon it; but, soldiers, you will not be so blinded as to forget that you alone are the guarantors of your liberty, of your independence and of the indivisibility of the Republic: you will not fall short of your noble mission.(j)

“Soldiers of the 21st regiment, I have learned that desertion had spread through your ranks, and that the greater part of you had gone off to Léogâne; you were doubtless deceived by the mad hope of the success of Pierre-Paul, who, disregarding his obligations as citizen and as soldier, did not fear to raise the standard of revolt against his country and his government; but his enterprise was impious, God has punished him, and death has been his just chastisement. This example will not be lost upon you, and you will not let yourselves be drawn into the snare your enemies are laying for you. For my part, faithful to my oaths, I shall maintain the peace and tranquillity of the country in spite of all those who would destroy it, and I count on you to second me.”(k)

Two days later Pierrot published a proclamation concerning the revolt of Léogâne. He congratulated the soldiers of Terlonge’s column and of Lazarre’s. He told them that the nation was grateful to them and that the attempt of the Riviéristes would be the last.

General J. Paul, charged ad interim with the portfolio of War, announced by an order of the day of 28 September the return from Léogâne to Port-au-Prince of General Lazarre at the head of the 1st and 3rd regiments and of the national guards of the plain of the Cul-de-Sac, and the approaching departure of that general for Las-Cahobas with the aim of reinforcing the line of the Cachiman, which had been almost abandoned through desertion. He ordered all soldiers belonging to the regiments that guarded that line to rejoin their colors within eight days, on pain of being handed over to the special councils as deserters in the presence of the enemy.