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Vacant Canbs. 
Office of the Secretary of State of the Interior and > 
of Agriculture, Section of the Interior. } 
REPORT. 
To His Excellency the President oe Hayti : 
President: — I believe the time bas come to submit to your 
Excellency tbe result of the labors undertaken by your order on 
tbe question of Emigration into our country of men of our race. 
After having examined, from different points of view, this 
important subject, it is time to substitute action for preliminary 
studies, and the more so that definitive questions are now pro¬ 
posed to the Government of the Republic. Men who have 
appreciated the riches of our soil, the mildness of our national 
manners, the working of our institutions, the good intentions of 
your Excellency, desire to put their hands to the work. Direct 
propositions have been addressed to us; demands for informa¬ 
tion have been made of us; time presses; they ought to be re¬ 
plied to. 
On the other hand, we ought to state that in all that portion 
of our hemisphere which extends from the rivers St. Lawrence 
to Orinoco, a work of expulsion of populations is in prog¬ 
ress, to which we ought not to remain inattentive. To profit by 
this movement in welcoming men of our blood, the victims of 
these outrageous persecutions, is to continue the work of reha- 
