SAINT-DOMINGUE. Alexandre de KENSCOFF DE... - Lot 252 - Rossini

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SAINT-DOMINGUE. Alexandre de KENSCOFF DE... - Lot 252 - Rossini
SAINT-DOMINGUE. Alexandre de KENSCOFF DE LA POMMERAYE (1757-1834) magistrate in Saint-Domingue. Manuscript a.s. and sending L.A.S., Lascahobas January 9, 1793, to the civil commissioners and commanders for the Nation in the French part of Saint-Domingue, ; 6 pages in-4 and 1 page in-fol. Explanation of a royalist colonist, who left Saint-Domingue during the slave revolt. Believing that he has bought the right to tell the truth by the sacrifice of the fortune of his whole family, Kenscoff invites the commissioners, whose safeguard he refuses, to read his address to the citizens of Mirabelais... - Sure of the esteem and friendship of his countrymen, he expresses his respect for their republicanism, but doubts that their wish to be republican is free, because their interest and nature are opposed to it: the republic could not be established except on a land reduced to ashes, sprinkled with the blood of their own... He advocates that the propertyless patriots embark with the civil and soldier commissioners brought to the colony, and that free men come together to contain the wicked. Should peaceful citizens, inhabitants and merchants fight for the republic? "No, of course not! Let all the brave men go and fight with the foreign powers, and let us be busy here making sugar, coffee, etc. [...] Let all those who burn with the love of liberty and equality go and make it triumph in another country than this one, where the great art is to contain 600,000 slave men in irons by 50,000 free men: we will still find it (this art) if MM. As for him, he resigned himself to voluntary exile, "too happy [...] if I took with me in my retirement the sweet consolation of having saved my country by the advice that my love for it dictated to me"...
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