[…]—clearing out by military murders,—since they are executions without judicial trials—the descendants of the Sanchezs, the Garcias and the Remirezs,—the brave men who had achieved all that has been done for liberty and independence,—the result of Spain’s surrender of her colony by the Treaty of Bâle.
1862, Richard Hill, Haïti and Spain: A Memorial, by Richard Hill, Dedicated to the Honorable W. H. Seward, Secretary of State at Washington, Jamaica: M. De Cordova & Co., […], page 10