The Feliciana Democrat., 1857-12-12
ST. DOMINGO WHO OUGHT 10 HAVE IT ?

sum- wooing It's rays and basking in thcm like Big
azy Titan,
While Great Britain steadily moves on. conquering
and to conquer taking India by the throat and Sfah
Cling every nationality within It's limits, as quickly
as possible seizng an island in the straits OF Babel
mandc illbustcrng on our continent, and ahhcNlhg
sections Of siam to her coossel empire while RUSSIA
sweeps down with her forest Of bayoncts over the
Caucasus into Asia, and France pushes her cohqHcsts
into Africa the United States preserves what Its ct
fcte statesmen regard as u "mnsterly inactivity
and refuse to bulge foot in the great race OF latter
day progression.
IT, spurred into action by the rowcl Of public opin-
ion. an occupant Of the White House musers pluck
enough TO look ont from the East Room upon the
world aud see what is going If spirit of activi-
ty. enterprise and progression stirs within him in con
sequence of popular camor. the feeling dies ont he
fore a war steamer can run from Washing TO Port.-
mouth. Timd couhsels prevail. pluck gives way to
Inactivity, and the Chief Magistrate Of great ma
tion. whether struck on one cheek by Nisconn, Pal
merson or the Captain General Of Cuba. or his sable
Majesty Faustin l. quietly turns the other check say
ing in effect. hit me again aud as often as You
please shall not resent it,
And thu. from palmcr-ton down to Sonluuquc year
after year, we are inonaccd aud usultcd our cti-
zrns abroad degraded imprisoned aud often slaugh-
tered our ships boarded ana outraged. Witness The
Black Warrior affair." the Panama massacre. the muir
der of Americans hy tie mongrcls u Central Amcri-
co. the outragcs upon Americans in iiayti, and the
late insult to our flag ly British man o-war on the
coast Of Africa What a catalogue II here presented!
our Government missed three golden oppornni-
ties within few years past Of extending our domn-
ion and our republican, institutions in the right dirce-
ton. when il failed to take advantage OF the Black
Warrior. Panama aud Central American dilicae4
to which We have just alluded. II should have taken
possession Of the irOwnng batteries Of Tie Moro
that fortress al the mouth oftlc M4siS.ppiit should
have seized Panama and Nicaragua and held thcir
transit routes for the benefit of the commercialword
4 England might lave protested. but her opposition
would have assumed the form Of a protest merely
Indeed we are not .ura but that England with other
commercial nations would have rcioced that these
route, were in the hands Of powerful nation, capl-
Die ul securing The safe transportation Of mails aT-
clers aud merchandise from to ocean. Had We
looked as far into resalts as some Of the English
statesmen We would now have 10 trouble about re.
huantcprc. We conquered Mexico once. wc may
haze to do il ggan Would il not have bran better
On The core Of humanity, good government aud til
commercial interests Of Tie world. 10 have held il
when thc.prize was in our hapd, We doubt whether
. powerful Emupran nation would hl@r given Pos
tcrlty such specimen Of excessive magnaaimitg.
Having lost three golden opportunities for Tire nc
qu.ition Of valuable territory territory SO cssenia
to our commercial Interests and national property
viii our Government pas. By fourth
There lies ST. Domingo, Look at it. It is one o
tn finest the rutiulcst the healthir.t of the Nes
t India Islands, Nearly rs large as South Carolina
: having IN area exceeding lwcRty-seyen thoasanl
square miles, with an ineXhaushc soil, with coas
ndented with bays allording fine lofbors, rich in al
the richest products Of the tropics, and clothed Wlt
= the p1rprtnra beauty Of an unsurpassed vegetation
there It lies like prcciou waf in the sea. Take Il
g Never. since the land wind famed the check I
= Columbus, ha, - Domingo been more racked VIII
. internal iouds, and degraded lower N the scale o
civilization than now. Recent intelligence from til
o Dominican Republic il Of n melancholy character
t Two rival chiefs Santana and Bacl, had put the i
habitAals in a state Of terror. and famine, NOR
: powerful foe TO the people than those reyolntonst
If had entered the city ofSt, Domingo Eaz vas cool
:. ed up in the capitol and SannXa hal sent mossag
to the Inytan Emperor 10 dclcrhi, intended invaso
until Baez was conquered. That insoent negro ha
consented 50 runs helcWs, condition that tho+ +a
tnna party would cooperate with him IN bringing tl
!" whole Island under his rule
y Thus matters stand Soulouquc has long theatc
u ed the Dominican Republic with sul,jugation, AM
y unless prevented by fortunate concurrence of ci
cumsanccs will succeed. Dominica has a popuhtiG
Of less lllan one hundred and forty thousand, min
o. tcnths Of which are Of African descent, the rest
Spanish origin. while lIayti has negro populate
y exceeding half million So the chances are in (
VI yor Of Sonouqur especially os the Dominicons a
divided among themselves Is il not burning d
t. grace thai u black empire should lay almost at OF
doors--that half million Of negroes should be pc
We we mtcd to lord it such an Island al II. DomlnS
If we lock at st. Domingo in commercial point
view it3 acquisition would be most valuable II
ot trading world would Dc benefited were it TO pass
to 10 our hands. Let take layti, thebest cultivate
he part of the island for example. During the Ia
year of the French dominion the exports Of the pr
ri. cipal products of the colony were-clayed suga
te Az 5IG.53l pounds and muscoy0do sugar, 93,j733
pounds coffee, 7G,83j,2l9 pounds and cotton,
5Oi PA pounds In 1851, the amount Of coffee
81, . ,nl, MI nf off