Le Clerc, General-in-chief of the Army of St. Domingo, Captain General of the Colony, to the inhabitants of St. Domingo:
Inhabitants of St. Domingo! Read the proclamation of the First Consul of the Republic. It assures to the blacks that liberty for which they have so long fought; to commerce and to agriculture that prosperity without which there can be no colonies. His promises will be faithfully fulfilled; to doubt it would be a crime.
The General-in-chief,
LE CLERC, Captain General.
By order of the General-in-chief,
LENOIR.
Extract from the Register of the Deliberations of the Consuls of the Republic, Paris, the 17th Brumaire, 10th year of the French Republic, one and indivisible, (November 8, 1801.)
PROCLAMATION.
The Consuls of the Republic to the Inhabitants of St. Domingo.
Inhabitants of St. Domingo! Whatever may be your origin and your color, ye are all Frenchmen; ye are all free, and all equal before God and the Republic.