Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - "The New York Times" ya kare mai kula da Bancroft Gherardi daga sakamakon abin da ya faru, yana cewa duk wani zargi da jami'in sojan ruwa ya yi "mai mugunta ne". Maimakon haka jaridar ta zargi Frederick Douglass da abin da ya faru kuma ta bayyana shi a matsayin "abin tausayi... ga wani mutum mai suna da matsayinsa, kuma shi ne wanda babu wani bayani da kuma yawan labarai a cikin Arewacin Amirka Review zai iya kawar da shi". Bayan ya koma Amurka a 1891, Gherardi ya ce a cikin wata hira da "The New York Times" cewa a cikin ɗan gajeren lokaci Haiti za ta sami ƙarin rashin kwanciyar hankali, yana nuna cewa gwamnatocin nan gaba a Haiti za su bi bukatun Amurka. Shekaru ashirin da biyar bayan faruwar lamarin, Amurka za ta mamaye kuma ta mamaye Haiti
shekara goma sha tara.