The Wheeling daily register

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volunteer regiments were af once formed

for that purpose; and on the occasion

of the anniversary of the taking of Port

au-r rince by the existing government,

volunteer militia to the number of three

thousand paraded in the public squares

and were presented with new. colors.'

which they received and resolved to de

fend, with the most unbounded cnrl.u

asm Subsequently the new* arrant

here that tlie L nited States Senate had

voted for the annexation of the eastern

province* in the so-called Dominican re

P' i." Tliis intensified tliealreadv ex

isting excitement, public meetings were

called and largely attended, the people

generally declaring their intention of

resisting to the last any attempt to coerce

them into annexation. Resolutions

j were carried with enthusiasm renounc

i ng allegiance to the existing republican

government, and declaring the intention

or the citizens of Port-au-Prince to save

j the authorities of the United States the

trouble of conquering the citv by burn

ing and abandoning if. The "feelin"

now is thai the HiSt intimation on the

part of the United States to enforce an

I nexat.'on, which is not desirous on their

part, will be the signal for the destruc

tion of the city and its total abandon

ment by the people, who will at once

flee to the mountains and org.inize a

system of the most inveterate guerrilla

wartare, which they are resolved upon

<*rymg out to the whole Havtien peo

ple, before they will submit to the scheme

of annexation as proposed by the Domin

leans

The Ilaytiens say that "annexation

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The Wheeling daily register. (1871). Wheeling, W. Va., 1871-01-11. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn84026847/1871-01-11/ed-1/?sp=3

ReferencesReferencias

Library of Congress, Chronicling America: The Wheeling daily register, 1871-01-11.