APPENDIX.—G. NO. I.                           [cvîi
Whilst the only obstacle to our reunion yet lived, the Hay-
tians have witnessed all t' e overtures we made to procure
peace by means of conciliation. We have not hesitated to
make the first advances, and it will always be pleasing and
honourable to sacrifice every personal feeling to the general
welfare and prosperity of our compatriots.
At present when there no longer exists any obstacle to
peace, reunion, and the extinction of civil war, we call upon all
good citizens, all good'fathers of- families, in a word, all Hay-
tians who love their country, and value good order and tran-
quillity, to second us with all their might in labouring to
accomplish the reunion of the Haytians, to terminate our
dissentions without bloodshed, and produce a new order of
things which shall be just and reasonable, honourable and
advantageous for all.
Our first duty and our most ardent wish is to labour with
all our ability for the welfare of the Haytians, and to bestow
upon them all those advantages which ought to attend a just
and paternal government, to introduce public instruction, * to
promote religion, and to make the arts and sciences, agriculture
and commerce flourish, but to the effectual accomplishment of
this it is necessary to consolidate our internal peace.
We are informed that the evil-disposed, who desire to see
a renewal of the horrors of civil war, have circulated a report
that, under the pretence of visiting the kingdom we avail our-
selves of the new circumstances which have arisen, to march an,
army to Port-au-Prince, while the real object of the circuit
we are now making through the kingdom accompanied by ouc .
family is to examine personally into the situation of tbe people
and their plantations, to promote law, order, and justice, to
ameliorate and reform every thing susceptible of improvement.
To dissipate these false reports whose only object is to
produce animosity, to excite mistrust, and prevent the reunion
of the Haytians into one and the same family ; we have felt
it necessary to make known our real views and paternal
intentions.
It is for the purpose of fully and entirely accomplishing
this, that we have determined upon prolonging our stay at the
town of St. Marc that we may be nearer to communicate with
the Haytians of the West and South ; and they should not con-
sider the troops which occupy the lines of the cordon of the
West otherwise than as friends and brothers who come not to
contend with but to welcome and fraternize with them.
• See a proof in the Report of the Schools, Appendix I. No. 1. p. 115.