The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-01-11
The Negroes OF Hayti Kicking Up
Their Heels about Son Domingo.

The negroes of Hayti are kicking up
a terrible row. over Grants proposition
to gobble up the end of the island in
habited by the Dominicans. The mes
sage Of President Grant reached Port
au. Prince on the 18th of December,
and had a monster bomb exploded in
every Haytien domicil, the consterna-
ton and alarm could not have been
greater among the ebony population,
than that created by the appearance of
Grants paper pellet. Late advices from
the island state that:
1.-THE first news of the message ar
rived by telegraph, and in an instant the
city was ablaze. The position taken by
President Grant was violently denounced
and in promptu meetings were called and
largely attended. The supposed schemes
Of the United States for the obtaining
of the Island Of Hayti were inveighed
against in unmeasured language, and
resolutions were passed denouncing
them. The people Immediately resolved
to defend their republic to the last, and
volunteer regiments were at once formed
for that purpose; and on the occasion
OF the anniversary of the taking of Port
au-Prince 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-
feni, with the most unboundrl cnrhn-
s:asm. Subsequently the news arrS eli
here that the United States Senate had
voted for the annexation of the eastern
provinces in the so-called Dominican re-
public. This intensified the already ex-
listing 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
were carried with enthusiasm renounc-
ing allegiance to the existing republican
government, and declaring the intention
o. the citizens Of Port-au-Prince 10 save
the authorities of the United States the
trouble of conquering the city by burn
ing and abandoning it. The feeling
now is that the fast intimation on the
part of the United States to enforce an
nexation, which is not DESTROYS on their
part, will be the signal for the destruc-
ton of the city and its total abandon
ment by the people, who will at once
flee to the mountains and organize a
system of the most inveterate guerrilla
warfare, which they are resolved upon
csrrying ont to the whole Haytien peo-
pie, before they will submit to the scheme
ofannexation as proposed by the Domin-
leans
The Haytiens say that annexation
of any part of the island means war on
IIaytI.' They must be conquered
through series of guerrilla warfares,
which they will carry on with a bitter
amnesty lefore they will succumb, and
then only to renew the contest whenever
and wherever they may be prepared to do
so.
=On receipt of the intelligence Of the
tenor of President Grants message,
gold, which was quoted at 200, i'm
medatelv rose to 270, and general
panic was feared For time the wild
est rumors were circulated as news, and
it was generally felt that the United
States were about embarking in another
Mexican war. The expression of pub.
lie feeling has been so strong that the
government has decided upon calling
together the national assembly and ask
ing them for an expression of opinion
in the matter.
Now don't this look favorable to
peaceful occupation of the island ?
And in case annexation becomes fixed
fact we would strongly recommend Port
au-Prince and its neighborhood as
summer resort for Quakers. Those who
have different tastes, however, and de-
light: in field sports will have fine
opportunity of indulging their appetites
IN shooting, and being shot at by those
negro guerrillas.