Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-12-29
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The Treaty Win Dominicn.

THE treaty which was drawn up by Mr. and
Mrs. Cazneau, representing the United States,
and by Messrs, Tejera and Bido, representing
the Dominican republic, has been published
in tho New York Tribune. 1t contains thirty
chapters, relating TO peace, amity, commerce,
navigation, and extrsdition, and is, altogether,
q rich affair, when the parties making it,
and the verbisge of diplomacy, are taken into
consideration. All the articles of commerce,
navigation, and extradition, rebound to the
advantage of the United States .he advan-
tages to accrue to Dominica are, to say the
least, of equiyocal character.
The third article stlpulates that '.the citi-
zens of each Of the contracting parties shall
be permitted to enter, to pass through, reside
in and to make their homes in any part of
the territories of the other; aud, to establish
warehouses and occupy then there. provided
they submit themselves to the laws, general or
special, that fix the duties or obligations of
residents and travellers. = They
shall have free access to the tribunals of JUS
tice, 10 establish their claims and to maintain
their rights of person and property, within
the same limits that the laws and customs of
the country concede to its citizens to the ac-
complishment whereof they may employ, in
defence of their interests and rights, such ad-
vocates, attorneys, and other agents, as they
may judge proper, and as the local laps per.
init
The above article grants no privileges what
ever, to colored Dominicans who may visit
this country, and it was rot intended that l.
should. The special and local laws, in the
South, in relation to colored persons, are not
in the least invalidated by this tissue of n.y.
pocritical verbiage. The South is still closed
against Them and in the North, independent
of this treaty, they would have remedy at law
for injury either to their persons or property.
But the members of the Dominican Legisla-
fure are not s...sied with this article. and it
would be surprising if they were. They wish
to secure to the colored citizens of Dominica,
beyond any doubt or eavil, the immunities
that seem to be guaranteed to them by this
treaty. They offer, therefore, the following
addition to the third article -
4" 1t is, however, expressly agreed that
neither the present article, nor the following,
shall be construed to allow any exclusion or
exception whatever, which may be applied to
mulatto citizens, in any part of the territory
OF the two contracting powers and, thai, in
one word in all the States of the American
Union the rights and treatment of the Do
mlnieans generally, shall be the same soitsout
regard TO descent or color"
Mr.. and Mrs. Cazneau refuse to agree to
this proposition, and the Legislature refuse to
recede from it. Our master, the South, would
not submit to any such proposition as this,
and so the whole treaty is, in the meantime,
placed in allegiance. Mr.. and Mrs Cazneau
hope, however, to settle the matter soon, in
the way they want it to be settled. They are
plotting to produce coup d ctat, by which
President Santana, who is white, may be
made dictator; and, by which the mulatto
party, headtd by NJ. Baez, may be put down.
In such an event the treaty would be signed
without regard to the rights of mulattoes. We
hope the coup d etdt will not succeed; and,
we hope also, that the treaty will never be
consummated.