Daily national intelligencer

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than weaken them, rather than endanger our future with fra

tricidal struggles.

The army that accompanies me is not an army of enemies

it is a support, a succor for the true Haytiens of the East, with

whom they come to fraternize.

Your enemies are those who

remain deaf to my appeal, and try to oppose our reconcilia

tion, by arming you against us—against your brethren. If

there are any such among you, they conspire against the liber-

ty and nationality of the Haytien people. Do you not, then, I

see that they are betraying you, and that it is time to deal out J

justice to them j

Live the Constitution Live Liberty Equality Live the i

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Union Live the indivisibility of the Territory

Given at Headquarters, Lascaobas, 8th March, 1849.

By the President

SOULOUQUE.

L. DuFHENE, Secretary General.

How Truk !—In the language of an eminent writer, man

courts happiness in a thousand shapes, and the faster he fol

lows it the swifter it flies from him. Almost every thing

promiseth happiness to us at a distance, such a pitch of es

tate, such a fortune, or match for a child, but when we come

nearer to it, either we fall short of it or it falls short of our

expectation and it is hard to say which of these is the greater

disappointment. Our hopes are usually bigger than enjoy

ment can satisfy; and an evil long feared, besides that it may

never come, is many times more painful and troublesome than

the evil itself when it comes,—Cherokee Advocate.

How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

Daily national intelligencer. (1849). Washington City [D.C.], 1849-05-16. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83026172/1849-05-16/ed-1/?sp=3

ReferencesReferencias

Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Daily national intelligencer, 1849-05-16.