The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-10-25
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AUTHENTIC LETTER FROM ST UoAINeo.--
No TRrArY CossuMMATKD ny THE AAERi-
cAr ConnIssIox. Under this head. the Bal
timore Patriot gives to its readers two com
municasions from St. Domingo, one under
dats Of Sept II, ana the other Sept. H. 'ne
latter stating that che treaty alleged to nave
been negotiated, annexing the island uncon-
disionalIy, was defeated. and that tne ou
convention negotiated opens 10 our c'.Ae
: country represented to be rich IN minerai
and stanle products. The Patriot says the
letters may be relied on AZ ausnen'ic' ~ 'sr
q they affirm facts.
The letter of Sept. IL, dated at St Domin-
no. saws that the accounts of the lombard
meut of Greytown by the U. .. ship Cyane,
has overwhelmed the Antilles-some OF them
with wrath, and all with astonishment. The
idea Of the United States presenting to chas-
tise Z town under the protection Of England
is regarded a. almost too wonderful for be-
lief The writer expresses the opinion that
il the American government plants itself
upon its declared principles against Euro
mean encroachments, and on the immemorial
right ofnations to protect their citizens by the
promptest means against irresponsible tribes,
whether they be Arabs, or Algerines, or Nos
quito Kings, the whole balance of power aud
prestige will be changed in Spanish America
and every American citizen abroad VIII DE
safe in person and property. The winter
thinks that the exact course of action IN the
rrevtown business may have been wrong
Int il is now the American policy ana duty
NOT to let it become national Illumination.
The letter of Sept. II, states that the Do
minican Congress has adjourned, and that
according to the report of one OF the mem
bers they were frightened out of the treaty
almost concluded with the United States, by
the threats of the British consul. we give
aninteresting portion of the letter;
SAN CHRIsrovAL, dominican Repue,lcano
September 18th 1854.
rna no,ninicap Congress has adjourned, and the
x,ennber for this district has returned home Win
the intelligence that his colleagues were frightened
ont of the treaty almost concluded with the Uniteo
SIates He says the British Consul, Sir hooeft
Thornhprp told the members not to treat with the
United states, or England and France would set
the Haytien negroes upon them-or ratnef ne sslo
the negro army was forty Thousand strong, ana
,vouM not leave drop OF white blood on the Is
land n European Influence did not hold them back
Senor - also said the Domnicans had agreed
.,hst our people should be free to hold lands and
mines without losing in any degree their natlona
~ and also the Congress had at the instance OF the
American Commissioner Gen. Cszneau placed the
mining laws In shape to give American wotkmen
and capitalists the pick and rule OF the mineral
wealth OF the Island.
All Hsyti ia pile of rich mines. Salt, sulpher,
iron copper or gold, is found In almost every hill
What more than such concessions as these could
Gen Cazneau ask or expectf he lives entirely
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full OF officers that he seems most member ofhe
government himself. He knows the situation OF the
country. and he ought to be contented with having
negotiated and made popular treaty which gives
IN our ci,iz ems all the benefits of new California
without any trouble or expense to our Govern
There ara some famous caverns near this place.
aud also mountain OF copper. which all strangers
come to see for it is only 90 miles from st. Domin.
30 Civ The British Coneuls hand man 10 here
now, only to look at the caves as he says, but he
ID very busy telling the old women who live by
picking up gold dust after the rains that the Anne.
Ycans are coming to make slaves of them. and that
the color ed people had better be under Hayti than
the cruel Yankees.
This town has had taste of the Haytiens and
are In no hurry to have them for masters again
They saw the white women collected and tied to.
gether, and driven OFT In a long hle by nero OF
negroes. and no one ever knew their exact fate-
The bravest of them provoked their savage mas
tiers to kill them at once, but some others were
known to drag out their miserable lives under the
whip like III treated slaves on the country patches
of the negroes. No negro was responsible by ne
gro law, for the murder or maltreatment OF even
. muiatto, much less of a white person The cru.
elites which the mixed bloods suffered 10 attempt
Jog to hide and protect some white families OF San
Cbristoval and Santo Domingo, are still recounted
with horror by all colors and both whites and
blacks are afraid to have them back again.
The British Coneul's plan to hoist the Hsytien
dag will not work If the American Cabinet does Its
duty, and recognises the Dominican Republic But,
I'LL Ia r. Hr dr.
friendship England Is making? Or will 1t shut Its
eyes and refuse to this impudent effort to negro.
Ice eastern Haytii 1t has redeemed itself from its
African masters by its own Efforts, and the United
States ought either to Take 1t by the hand in good
faith or come out honestly and say 1t ia willing to
let the negroes take, and keep, and barbarize the
whole West Indies.
II IL said all through the island that Gen. Caznean
demanded the csssion OF the Bay and Peninsula of
SANTANA, but Senior -, of the Dominican Senate,
tells me that this IL untrue, and the report origna
ted In the Circumstance OF the friyaie Columbia
going round there as soon as it had landed General
Cazneau, the American Commissioner, without
communicating this intention to the suthsrities.-
Couriers were despatch by the local officers with
reports that the Columbia people were examining
the coal ard other mines, and said they should
plant the American flag before they lett.
The correspondent proceeds to allege that
the whole country was once offered to the
United States, through Gen. Cazneau, and
that he refused to be the bearer of the propo-
sition, and discouraged the Dominicans from
making the offer, saying the United States
would rather see them Independent and pros
porous members of the great family of Anne.
rican nations. This idea, adds the writer,
has got into their beads; and all the leading
Dominicans are full of the American system
and Pierce's inaugural. He thinks that Gen.
Caxnsau does not now seem to stand up to
his own programme. The Dominican Re-
public. he alleges, is willing to be annexed, out
and out. or it is willing, upon being recog-
nized, to give TO American citizens all the
benefits of an additional State to the Union,
without any cost or responsibility whatever.
Gen. Cazneau, it is declared, hesitated and
permitted Congress to adjourn before he
signed the treaty. although it is one he had
shaped out himself.
The correspondent states that land that is
worth $40 or $50 an acre in Cuba, for coffee
and sugar, can be had in st. Domingo for 90,
and that in healthy and convenient situa-
lions; and that mining lands, equal to the
best in the world. can be had to work ON |
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