Les Cayes. Cited in the Dominican Manifesto as the town that raised the cry of reform on 27 January 1843.

« Such was the sad state of this Part when, on 27 January of last year, the town of Les Cayes, in the south of the island, raised the cry of reform: with the swiftness of lightning the populations took fire at this signal; they adhered to the principle of the Manifesto of 1 September, and the Eastern Part, so great was its good faith, flattered itself, though in vain, with a happier future. But the Commandant Rivière proclaimed himself Chief of Execution; as the organ of the will of the sovereign people he made laws at his fancy and set up a government without any legal form, without including in it a single inhabitant of this part, which had declared itself in favor of his revolution; he went through the department of San Yago, and without any lawful motive he painfully recalled the unhappy era of Toussaint and of Dessalines, dragging after him a numerous staff that carried demoralization wherever it passed; he sold offices, stripped the churches, and undid the elections the inhabitants had made in order to secure representatives who could defend their rights, and this so as to keep this Part in misery and to make himself candidates who would raise him to the presidency, although without special mandate from their constituents. That is what took place; he threatened the Constituent Assembly, and, in consequence of strange communications made by him to the army under his command, he succeeded in becoming President of the Republic.