Ashtabula weekly telegraph

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except on tho Hayticn border, which is

disturbed by insurrectionary leaders, aid

ed by the Haytiens and political intrigu

ers. These are incited to be extraordina

ry active at this time, by fear of annex

ation to the United Slates. From all

that the Commissioners could ascertain,

President Jiaez has the respect ot the

great majorities of the Dominican peo

ple for his administrative abilities, and

the strong attachment ot many leading

men, who regard him as the only states

man among them who can hold the na

tion against domestic factions and for

eign foes. In the year 1848, after five

years of anarchy consequent upon the

expulsion ot the Haytieii power, Gener

al Haez was regularly elected President

of the Republic. It appears that he was

chosen as tho man who by his education,

fortune and public services, would be the

most likely to securo general confidence,

and lieal the wounds inflicted by civil

and foreign wars.

In one of the delegations of leading

citizens who tendered him the chief mag

istracy, was Gen. Cabral. There is am

ple testimony to the fact, that under

him, despite the difficulties that have be

set him, tho Republic has enjoyed as

much liberty as any of his predtccssors

dared to allow, and more tranquility

than they knew how to give.

Nor do the Commissioners find that

there is any opponent to the present ac

miiiistration of that Republic, who has

now, or ever has had, any claim to the

phief magistracy, by a title superior to

that of the present incumbent. What

ever technical defects there might have

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Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (1871). Ashtabula, Ohio, 1871-04-22. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83035216/1871-04-22/ed-1/?sp=1

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Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Ashtabula weekly telegraph, 1871-04-22.