Spain boasted, in official papers, that in the act of reannexion the Dominicans were spontaneous, free, and unanimous,--that no Spanish emissaries were in the territory to influence its people, nor was there a Spanish bottom in its waters or a Spanish soldier on its land.
He critiques Spain's claims about the reannexation of Dominica, questioning the legitimacy of their assertions.
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