Catos in fanor of Emigration. 
From an official record of the proceedings of the Legislative 
Chambers of Hayti, we translate the following important docu¬ 
ments. 
Senate. Session of September, 1860. 
.... The President (of the Senate) announced to the 
organs of the Government that the Assembly was ready to 
receive their communications. The Secretary of State of the 
Interior rose and stated that his colleagues and himself were 
charged by the Government to submit to the Senate a project 
of law on emigration. He then made the following exposition 
of the reasons for the project: 
Gentlemen: For many years past, tendencies to emigration, 
more or less decided, have appeared amongst men of our race 
on the American Continent and in the Islands of our Archipelago. 
Already, under the fallen government, an agent was sent to 
New Orleans to endeavor to profit by these dispositions, and 
the present administration, finding this work already begun, has 
sought to give to the movement a more vigorous impulse. 
Recent facts were used as the starting-point to our efforts. 
A large number of the States of the great North American 
empire, in consequence of events which it is useless here to 
retrace, adopted a new policy, the rigors of which were des¬ 
tined to produce throughout the world a dismal echo. Our 
hearts were moved by the sufferings of our brethren on the 
