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Call for Emigration. 
ately on arrival, declare his wish to he naturalized : and after 
one year’s residence, he can become a citizen of Hayti, enjoying 
all his civil and political rights. 
The emigrants will be exempt from military service, but their 
children, when they are of the requisite age, shall be held to 
perform the service conformably to the laws of the country; that 
is to say, for a limited time, and by the result of conscription. 
[Par suite du tirage au sort .] This exception does not con¬ 
stitute, in their favor, a modification of the law on the National 
Guard, of which every citizen must form a part. 
You will have power, also, freely to exercise your religion. 
I have spoken here only of the members of the African race, 
who groan in the United States more than elsewhere, by reason 
of the ignoble prejudice of color; but our sympathies are 
equally extended to all those of our origin who, throughout the 
world, are bowed down under the weight of the same sufferings. 
Let them come to us! The bosom of the country is open to 
them also. I repeat it, they will be able to acquire, either on 
the public or private estates, fertile lands, where, by the aid of 
assiduous labor, they will find that happiness which, in their 
actual condition, they cannot hope to find. 
The man whom God has pointed out with his finger to elevate 
the dignity of his race, is found. 
The hour of the reunion of all the children of Hayti is 
sounded ! Let them be well convinced that Hayti is the bul¬ 
wark of their liberty! 
Given at the office of the Secretary of State of the Interior, at 
Port-au-Prince, the 22d August, 1859, Fifty-Sixth year of 
Independence. 
The Secretary of State, of Justice, and of Worship, charged 
par interim , with the portfolio of the Interior and of Agri¬ 
culture. F. E. Dubois. 
