SAINT-DOMINGUE. Jacques LOISEAU, Creole landowner... - Lot 325 - Ader

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SAINT-DOMINGUE. Jacques LOISEAU, Creole landowner... - Lot 325 - Ader
SAINT-DOMINGUE. Jacques LOISEAU, Creole landowner and magistrate, honorary councilor and later president of the Superior Council of Cap-Français in Saint-Domingue. Manuscript, Speech by M. Loiseau at the time of his reception in the office of President of the Superior Council, February 4, 1778; 12 pages in-fol. (wetness and small marginal tears). "The love of the Fatherland is not a vain chimera imagined to deceive the narrowed souls of some sedentary or timid Citizens: it is a virtue innate in almost all men; it is an interior spring, an intimate attraction which is formed with the blood; a kind of magnetic force which always moves the soul towards its pole. The intoxication of great journeys, the pleasures of displacement, the events, the connoissances, the connoissances that one promises oneself of the most pleasant cources, all these errors of the wandering characters are sooner or later annihilated by the love of the Fatherland and the end of life seems to be a tribute that one must absolutely recall to the native countries. Yes, gentlemen, in the midst of the tumult and the great spectacles of the capital I have always felt this propensity for my country ; and without being able to define this inner vision, these ever-present anxieties, I saw myself imperatively carried to St. Domingue, but the first of my wishes before seeing this colony again was to take back a State where it seemed to me that my fellow citizens had seen me with pleasure, to spend my life among magistrates from whom I promised myself feelings that I am resolved to acquire by all the care of which humanity can be capable: Here you are, Messrs., the project which made me desire the honor of presiding over this respectable Court"... Etc. .
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