Hispaniola. The Manifesto argues that the island’s single name gave the west no claim to the east.

« If it is considered with respect to the Constitution of Haiti of 1816, it will be seen that, besides the singularity of giving a bastard Constitution to a foreign country that had no need of it and had not named its natural deputies to debate it, there is also a most scandalous usurpation, because at that time the Haitians were not in possession of this part, any more than when the French were expelled from the French Part, the French having been unable to abandon it to them, since it was not their property. By the treaty of Basel this part was ceded to France, and restored or returned to Spain by the peace of Paris, by virtue of which the taking of possession made by the Spaniards in 1807 was sanctioned, a possession which continued until 30 November 1821, the date at which this Part separated from the mother country; when the sons of the west revised their Constitution in 1816, this part belonged neither to Haiti nor to France. The Spanish flag flew over its fortresses by virtue of a perfect right; and from the fact that the natives called the island Saint-Domingue (Haiti) it does not follow that the Western Part, which first constituted itself a sovereign State, had the right to regard the Eastern or oriental Part as an integral part of itself, when the one belonged to the French and the other to the Spaniards.