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and relates the history of the last few months, passed in opposition to his rule, addresses four of his fellow-citizens and calls them to his councils. 'I never consider myself,' says the speaker, as any other than a servant of the people, and the instrument of its will. I have but one thought, but one object, the overthrow of tyranny and the regeneration of my country. The destructive part is accomplished; the regenerative part is now to be commenced. Citizens Imbert, Voltaire, Guerrier, and Segretier, in the name of the sovereign people, and in virtue of the power conferred upon me by the act of the 21st of November, 1842, I proclaim you members of the Provisional Government.' The Chief having thus surrendered his power into the hands of the people, the latter re-elected him unanimously to a seat at the Board of Government, and constituted him the colleague of those whom he had just called to office. A salute of a hundred and one guns was fired in honor of the new appointments; a Te Deum was chanted with great pomp, and the multitudes who had assembled to witness the ceremony, dispersed. Let us now review the acts, orders and decrees that have emanated from the new Government since its installation, and see how far the people of Hayti are qualified for the task on which they have entered, of regenerating the Commonwealth.

" 1st. The ex-President Boyer is declared guilty of high treason, and all his real and personal estate forfeited to the republic.

*“2d. All the estate, real and personal, of parties accused, (their names are mentioned, including those of General Inginac, Senator Ardouin, and two or three public functionaries,) are sequestered provisionally, subject to the decision of a jury. The farms and sugar-works to be let by auction for a given term, and the money to be paid to the Minister of Finance, out of which, and out of the proceeds of sales, if hereafter such sales should be ordered by a jury, the claim of creditors and those parties are to be satisfied. Sums of money to be immediately allowed for the support of the wives of the accused, and the bringing up of their families.

3d. Several new ports are opened to foreign commerce, and all restrictions of commerce hitherto existing

between Hayti and the British West India islands are removed, and certain duties on the importation of foreign goods are temporarily reduced.

"4th. The popular committees or clubs of the different communes are directed to send in lists of persons whom they consider to be best qualified to serve the Republic in the various offices of judge, justice of the peace, curate, vicar, church warden, school-master, and prison-keeper, with a view to the selection by the new Government of all public functionaries in different departments of the State.

"5th. The national guard, or militia, under officers of their own choice, to come into the field for drill, twice every week, without receiving pay, till further orders are issued.

"6th. The executive chief is directed forthwith to make a military law of the island, to bring all the inhabitants to acknowledge the provisional government.

"7th. The communes are directed to meet in primary assemblies to choose an electional body of 620 members, which 620 members, when they have verified their powers, are to elect one-fifth of their number to constitute a national assembly, to which shall be entrusted the power of forming a new constitution for Hayti. Every industrious man, of the age of twenty-one years, to be entitled to vote in the primary assemblies.

"The members of the national assembly are appointed by a special decree to meet at Port au Prince, 15th September, to exercise all their high functions of the delegated office. Thus far the Provisional Government has proceeded on its course with great moderation; life is held sacred, property is respected, the liberty of the subject is preserved inviolate. The great questions of reform, such as those which relate to the education of the people, the reduc-. tion or annihilation of the standing army, the regulation of import and export duties, and the jurisprudence of the country are left to be determined and acted upon by the Executive Government that may be chosen by the national assembly. It is delightful, however, to observe that the individuals now in power hold sound and enlightened opinions on some of these important topics, and especially on the momentous one of national education. Elementary instruction, they tell us, 'The vehicle of mor

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ality and happiness, the vital principle of nations, is almost unknown in Hayti; it is there deprived of all support; it there has no encouragement;' and they call on the people to remember that, it is this absence of education, above all other causes, that has served to depress Hayti, and to keep her stationary. Are not our young people the hope of their country? Is not this the class that must transmit to posterity the precious deposit, that our predecessors have confided to us? Brute force never leads to anything good; we must listen to reason's voice; we must light the torch of civilization by educating the people.'

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"The late contention, though of short duration, has brought much misery on the country, and has plunged the new Government into deep financial difficulties. fields and provision grounds in the south of the island have been ransacked by the army for subsistence, and owing to the absence of the owners, who had left their homes to join the insurrectionary party, their renewed cultivation had been neglected; there is, therefore, at this moment, a great dearth of exportable produce. The trade of the towns has been paralyzed. Added to these disastrous consequences, arising out of the recent movements, are the melancholy results of the great earthquake, and of a fire that occurred soon after in Port au Prince, which, together, have destroyed property to an awful extent. The Haytiens, however, are not discouraged; they are resolved to exert themselves, and to cultivate the arts of peace; they believe themselves to be on the way to surmount all their difficulties; they write and speak like men who have learned a great deal; they have full reliance on their qualifications for self-government. We trust that the experiment about to be made of forming a new constitution, and of framing laws suited to the present and future exigencies of society, may be entered upon with prudence, and carried through with wisdom. Hayti will then become what her situation in the Western Archipelago, and her natural capabilities fit and intend her for, a fruitful land with a prosperous people."

For those who question the industry of the Haytiens, we subjoin the following tables, showing the exports from the island of late years. No better proof can be given of the general industry of a people, than the

amount of their productions, and the record of the custom house is one of the readiest evidences of this, though of course but an approach to a just estimate. It enables, us, however, to compare one nation with another.

It will be remembered that the population of the island is rated from 800,000 to 900,000.

From Essays on the Colonies, &c., by Judge Jeremie.
Exports in 1832 from Hayti.

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1830-35, Hayti.

1832 2,053,386 1,669,003 $1,759,216 | $905,432

1833 1,740,058 1,427,963

land to Hayti.

France, in 1833, exported to Hayti, $701,729

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The trade with Germany is considerable, but we have not been able to obtain any statistics of it.-See M'Culloch's Dictionary, Art., Port au Prince.

If we estimate the value of Haytien exports at $6,000,000 annually, as the first table would authorize, it would be $7 per head for the population which is the ratio in the United States. When we take into account our superior advantages of accumulated capital, education, &c. &c., this result is very honorable to Hayti.

EXTRACTS

From the Translation of the Letter of Abbe Gregoire, Bishop of the Department of Loire and Cher, Deputy of the National Assembly, to the Citizens of Color in the French West Indies, concerning the Decree of the 15th of May, 1791.

'FRIENDS, You were men; you are now citizens. Reinstated in the fulness of your rights, you will, in future, participate of the sovereignty of the people. The decree which the national assembly has just published respecting you, is not a favor; for a favor is a privilege: and a privilege to one class of people is an injury to all the rest. They are words which will no longer disgrace the laws of the French.

'In securing to you the exercise of your political rights, we have acquitted ourselves of a debt: not to have paid it, would have been a crime on our part, and a disgrace to the constitution. The legislators of a free nation certainly could not do less for you than our ancient despots have done.

'It is now above a century ago that Louis XIV solemnly acknowledged and proclaimed your rights; but of this sacred inheritance you have been defrauded by pride and avarice, which have gradually increased your burthens, and embittered your existence.

'The regeneration of the French empire opened your hearts to hope, whose cheering influence has alleviated the weight of your miseries: miseries of which the people of Europe had no idea. While the white planters resident among us were loud in their complaints against ministerial tyranny, they took especial care to be silent as to their own. Not a hint was suggested concerning the complaints of the unhappy people of mixed blood; who, notwithstanding, are their own children. It is we, who, at the distance of two thousand leagues from you, have been constrained to protect those children against the neglect, the contempt, the unnatural cruelty of their fathers!

'Citizens, raise once more your humiliated countenances, and, to the dignity of men, associate the courage and nobleness of a free people. The 15th of May, the day in which you recovered your rights, ought to be for ever

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