Refutation of the Letter of the French General Dauxion Lavaysse

The author writes at a time when, in his words, Haiti's enemies threaten to put the country back under slavery and French agents seek to sow disunion. He undertakes to refute the letter of October 1 addressed to the government of Haiti by the French general Dauxion Lavaysse, and he proceeds by quoting each paragraph and answering it.

The pamphlet challenges the agent's account of his mission, asking why he went to Jamaica instead of Haiti, stayed two months among the colonists and let three weeks pass between his letter to General Pétion and the one sent to the north. It was printed at Cap-Henry by P. Roux, printer to the King, in the eleventh year of independence. The scan comes from the Library of the Department of State and from a copy digitized by the Internet Archive.