Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-02-24
ANNEXATION OF HAYTI.
An Address Issued to Haytiens by Gen.
Manigaf.


The intimation in Yesterdays STAR that the
appointment Of Mr.. Haentjens as Haytien
minister to the United States is in pursuance Of
the policy Of President Hippolyte to have the
United States annex the black republic re-
ceives partial confirmation by the actions OF
Gen. Manigat. the recognized leader OF the
revolutionists in Hayti. who Is now engineering
a sort OF literary campaign in this country
against the present government OF Hayti 1t Is
said that ever since the negroes OF Hayti were
freed from slavery they have had dread OF
being annexed by a foreign power and again
becoming servants Of the white men. Hippo
lyte has IN several occasions intmated that
protectorate would be good thing for Hayti,
and Nanlgst hopes to make the best of this to
overthrow his enemy He has accordingly had
prepared in New York for distribution in
Hayti an Incendisry proclamation with the
hope of organizing a successful revolution
against HIppolyte.
An ADDRESS TO HAYTIENs.
In this proclamation. which is address ed to
Haytiens, he says: At the time when the United
States are annexing the Sandwich Islands after
a pretended revolution provoked by the Ameri-
can element living in those islands, and simply
because the group is the key to the navigation
of the Pacific ocean. Gen. Florville Hippolyte
senCi- a. ulr REPRESENTATIVE at washington MS
former secretary. Clement Haentjens. that arch
enemv OF our nation. that renegade, who on
September %. 1890. was not afraid to say such
impious words as IL see no other hope for
Hayti than the establishment of a foreign &C.
cupatiOn." He said this in the presence of
traitors who. like himself, are nursing the idea
o: enjoying in peace the benefits of robbery
under the shadow Of foreign flag and who
share with him his annexationist ideas and his
desire to accomplish them.
ALLEGED POLICY OF Mr. CLEVELAND.
On the very day after his arrival the Ameri-
can newspapers announced, upon good au-
thority." that "Mr. Cleveland, as President
would adopt an anne xationist policy" and they
added that the word annexation" had pleas
ant sound to American ears and gave rise every
where to enthusiasm. He landed on the day
after those very newspapers had said that, ow-
Ing to the increase in the size of the navy, the
problem OF acquiring new coal stations was be-
coming a serious one to the United States, and
that. besides Hawaii, they needed two more,
one In the West Indies and the other in tho
South Pacific. He landed on the day after it
was announced that the Dominican customs
had passed under the control of an American
syndicate. This is the time that the obedient
slave of Gen. Florville Hippolyte chooses to let
the Americans know, through these same news
papers, that the envoy to Washington is the
acknowledged leader of Haytien annexationists,
and that his mission indicates a change of policy
on the part of the black republic. whose eyes
are about to turn no longer toward Europe and
France, but toward the North American colos
sus. which aspires to incorporate within its
boundaries all of the northern hemisphere of
the new world and the islands pertaining to il.
CALL TO ARMS.
This is also the time chosen by Gen. Florville
Hippolyte to inform US in all his speeches that
we must bow servile heads to his dictatorial
authority or bid farewell to our independence.
He CHOOSES this as the time to have placed at
his disposition the kearsarge and the Concord
of the American navy, constantly kept in our
waters or within easy call.
Havtiens,
Such policy shows us our duty, We received
from our fathers free AMI independent coun-
try, Free and independent We must hand it
down to our children.
To armsi
Let powder answer the provocations of that
unworthy chief who. hesitating at no means Of
usurping power. at no infamy to retain it. is
now preparing to sell his country to foreigners,
rather than to submit to the will of the people.
who are crying out at the top of their voices for
the end of such things and the surrender of
power to men more patriotic and more worthy.