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1811-04-22

The citizens of the West publish their address to their brothers of the South in reply to Rigaud.

Haitian

“Done at Port-au-Prince, 22 April 1811, Year VIII of Independence.

“Bazelais, Lamothe-Aigron, Nicolas Louis, J. Marion, Malette, Boyer, Gédéon, Delva, J. Lacroix, Chauvet, Beauvoir, Ulysse, J. Simon, Néret, A. D. Sabourin, Boisblanc, Lespinasse, etc., etc.”

I have thought it right to report these two documents in full, despite their length, the better to put the reader in a position to pronounce a definitive judgment; for it has seemed to me hitherto that too fair a share has been given to Pétion and too small a one to Rigaud in the causes of the departmental scission.

Source  ·  p. 275 Joseph Saint-Rémy (des Cayes), Pétion et Haïti: étude monographique et historique, tome 5 (Paris: Auguste Durand, 1857), p. 275; English translation, Rasanblaj.