The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1854-11-02

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From the Western States, we can rely upon one
from Ohio, one from Indiana, one from Illinois,
one from Iowa, and two from Wisconsin. Cass
and Bright will not go out till 1851
THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - THE GRAND
| PLOT
We expose, above, the process by which it is
proposed to carry out the conspiracy to estab-
fish Slavery ON the Pacific coast. The article
we copy from the Baltimore Patriot shows the
progress of the grand scheme of Slavery Propa-
gandism on our Atlantic coast. Intrigue fol-
lows intrigue; the conspirators give themselves
no rest. American Diplomats abroad sit in
conclave upon the best means of acquiring
Cuba Greytown is bombarded, to dspel the
illusion that prevails throughout the West In
dies. in regard to the absolute security afforded
by British protection. General Cazneau is
sent to Dominica to treat for the annexation Of
that part of the island of Hayti, or for the ac
QUESTION of territory for American slave coloni-
cation, or for certain valuable privileges in re-
lation to commerce and mining, which may be
turned to account in future steps of the grand
scheme of aggression. Everywhere the Slave
Interest is actively and insidiously at work,
| while Southern editors affect astonishment at
| the agitation of the Northern mind on the sub
| ject of Slavery, and Northern conservatives are
! crying, peace peaee!!
| A correspondent in Dominica. in an article to
the New York Tribune, dated September "a,
writes:
| at is well understood here, not only in Off
/ cial circles, but among the public in general,
that Gen. Cazneau, the United States Commits
sioner accredited to this part of the island of
Hayti, or, to speak more explicitly, to the Do
minican Republic, has succeeded in securing
| for the United States the right of establishing
military and naval depots upon the northern
coast of the island. Such depots are considered
essentially necessary for insuring the acquis-
ton of Cuba and Porto Rico by force of arms.
| This being once effected, there is no doubt that
| the Dominican territory will also be cOlonized
| and annexed to the Union slave State.
| The plan understand to be, that Cuba shall be
| divided into two States. which, with ST. DOmn-
| go and Porto Rico, will form four additional
saveholding States adding thereby four more
stars to the spangled banner.
81 am able to state, also, that Gen. Cazneau
| owes his success to the shrewd and insinuating
|
| him, but especially to lavish bribery among the
sable officials of this African Republic
| The Baltimore Patriot has more detailed
and suggestive account. The writer reveals
much, and evidently keeps something back We
infer from the letter that the course of Presi-
dent Pierce has been vaciating-bold when
the mission was commenced, wavering as it ad-
vanced-a phenomenon probablyto be explained
by the events following the passage of the Ne
braska Bill. Read the letter, and bear in mind
the other intrigues of Slavery, and then say
whether it is not of infinite importance that the
People of the free States thrust aside old party
issues and names, and unite in one grand
movement to install a real Republican Admins
tration, pledged to uncompromising war against
the dangerous conspiracies that threaten the
honor and safety of the Republic.
THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC.
From tho Baltimore Patriot.
A correspondent in the Island of ST. Domin-
| go has been so kind as to communicate, through
. our columns, an authentic account of the rea
| tons between the Government of that Island
and the American Commissioner. AS the pub
lie has been in uncertainty whether the treaty
alleged to have been negotiated annexed the
Island uncomfortable or merely obtained the
| rights of deposit and of commercial intercourse,
we can state, upon the authority of our cores
pendent, that the treaty Of annexation pas de-
teated, and that the only convention negotiated
| opens to our citizens a country. represented to
be rich in mineral and staple products.
OF the inducements to immigration and in
vestment set forth in the letter, there can be no
doubt. The acquisition of such country by
open and honorable purchase would do much
to supply the want of certain staple productions,
| and this nothing but an unfortunate sectional
question prevents us from efecting, while our
commercial rivals, by fomentng our own feuds
and the prejudces of the Spanish race against
u.s. obtain a practical monopoly of all the advan-
tages. Coffee lands at 50 per acre, equal to
those of Cuba, are certainly temptation to the
purchaser. The letter may be relied on as au-
Mentic, so far as 1t atfrms facts. The opinions
| expressed are, of course, those of the cores
pondent, in some instances, perhaps, adopted
with an imperfect knowledge of events which
have transpired, and which, if known, might
| have modified them.
SAN CHRlsTovAL, Dominican RepuJHc,)
| September II, 1854.
The Dominican Congress has adjourned,
and the member for this district has returned
home with the intelligence that five colleagues
were frightened out of the treaty almost conclu-
| ded with the United States. He says the Brit
| ish Consul, Sir Robert Schomburg, told the
members not to treat with the United States.
or England and France would set the Haytien
negroes upon them--or rather he said, the ne
gro army was forty thousand strong, and would
not leave drop of white blood on the Island,
| if European influence did not hold them back.
| Senior - also said the Dominicans had agreed
that our people should be free to hold lands and
mines without losing i'm any degree their nation
| atty and also the Congress had, at the instance
| of the American Commissioner, Gen. Caznean.
| placed the mining laws in a shape to give
| American workmen and capitalists the pick and
rule of the mineral wealth of the Island. All
| Hayti is a pile of rich mines. Salt, sulphur,
| iron. copper, or gold, is found in almost every
| hill. What more than such concessions rs
| these could Gen. Cazneau ask or expect? He
| lives entirely among the Dominicans, and his
house Is Always so til Of officers that he seems
| almost a member Of the Government himself
| He knows the situation of the country, and he
ought to be contented with having negotiated
and made popular a treaty which gives to our
citizens all the benefits of "a new California,
without any trouble or expense to our Govern
| nent.
There are some famous caverns near this
| place, and also mountain of "copper" which all
strangers come to see, for it is only twenty
miles from ST. Domingo City. The British
Consul's righthand man is here now only to
look at the caves, as he says, but he is very
busy telling the old women who live by picking
up gold dust after the rains, that the Americans
| are coming to make slaves of them, and that
the colored people had better be left under Hay