The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-04-12


ience Or manner and did not absent herself moro fire.
qens Than agreed upon, she entitled 70 recover Yer.
NEWS FROM ST. DOMINGO.
our ST. Domingo City cersespopd enee.
ST. DohlSGo, March 7, 1860.
Foreign l.fuence-Bad Government Dom;niean Se,ys
y-Fyeaeh Po!scy-AmeYtaanism and Proors,, at a
Discount, dc.
nnd this Dominican republic = surprising country
with more surprising government God Almighty has
gwen every blessing his bounty could lavish upon
In soil and climate, but a the time he has crseA
with government that keeps all these gts under their
own lock and key.
About half OF French and soanisb shonk
own the whole countrymen, beasts and landapd tbev
rule with single eye TO the advantage Of their own
private speculations.
President Santana is IN honest man, and IL he knsv
how would do well by the country but he ia blinded hv
the cozenng batteries Of the interested harpes ahsrt
him.
These men employed Spanish Jesuit named B.,,m
70 get Santana knighted by Louis Napoleon ana TIA
Queen Of spain and that finished the business With tina
old man.
He preaces his public acts President Of the repubhe
with his Spanish titles Of knigh thood, and like Isyal
and submissive knight he does nothing in his Dominican
government without previously informing his SOVEREIGN
iady the Queen and receiving the consent her mnia
This may read to You Ike an exaggerated statement
put only me smallest part OF the degrading syoo
Dominican Minister was long tmc treated like dog by
the Spanish Court he continued his knees at t6a
queens back door until he obtained hearing and then
turned out that his errand beg her Majesty to re-
store the Dominican republic to its old position as
Spanish colony Spain cannot make up her to that
for France orders her to aid in annexing them 70 Hay
and the will OF France must be obeyed.
Inc Domnicans as people do not wish TO under
| IN he e,tod IN
Hsyt There are half dozen men who would like 70 be
aukes an1 counts II were only all under saoh sove-
| country, this half dozen owns it.
When say they own the country, it must no. be nm
derstood that they invest their fortunes In have sny
permanent stake In the good OF the republic On the con-
rary, all the money they wiring Of the Domincans
they also send their children TO BIO educated Ar yc,I
may suppose, these personages abhor The Americans
and the whole world knows how decidedly that is the
strong point They are the enemies BY nature OF
keep Yankees out Of tho country With a. much au,o
| ss monkeys pet the passing traveller.
several Of the Dominican citsens who happen have
come Drains applied TO their government for right 10
VOTE coal mines on the government aads others 70 light
a w ass sa on the Of European ana
machinery; and others to open nacsdamzed roads and
railways on routes between tho principal towns,
whaever but this model govefnmen. refused 10 aiiow
even iS own citizens chance 70 make public improve
Such men ought To have been enrolled among sou
ouques dukes and princes for they no use among
All the European Consus make point Of treating them
nke servants ana their government like noaentty But
toe more they are nsulted the more they bw down and
worship the pomp and pride Of the hand that strkes
them and the more careful they become to do or not IN
40, what the Consuls order to be done cone Let
the Americans here attempt anything Instantly these
Consular gentlemen put on their livery and sarto IN
body TO make the government put stop to it, aad d
Yet must be confessed that the government OF thu
United States has to for much Of this spirit Of Sub
example Of concession in our habit Of permitting Angle
French dictaion In all the Spanish American States IN
These and unrettied States only submit in form 4
what the United State have submitted to in fact They
know full we'll that our citizen. have been robbed and
slaughtered In Mexico the Isthmus and on this very
island and they only initiate the complasance with vht
our Congress oyerooks the wrongs done to its cou
stituens and the readiness with which orgvee the
wrong doers.
The wholesome lesson TO Paraguay would have placed
our flag our citizens and our commerce in new con.
don Of honor and security, had not the Congress ~.
tcoished the world by formal declaration thai Il would
whatsoever ousrases any Of the contemplate usnS A%e
rican shams Of may choose perpetrate on
There never was more fatal error be ienoTsnoe r.
cowrdice, be base spirit Of factous Opposition or
always reasonable sacrifice OF the Interests Of orr peor
70 forbid to the national executive the right and the
power to protect them, and to protect them ohanded
and atonce, from the assaults OF licensed robbers
When our ships are plundered and their captains put in
loathsome prisons, to rot and die at the win Of the tran
who have eiuded short lived power by robber force
and who must be punished at escape entirely
there should be q the disposition Of the President Tho
means TO bring the plunderer TO quick Justice The heads
OF all great nations have this power and use IL Thev
sometimes abuse IT, as here in st. Domingo but
venture 70 exceed the most prudent limits, while be has
Congress Ut his back, disposed to submit 70 The
caproes OF every petty foreign yrant than the rights and
Interests Of any Of our citizens who happen to fall in hs
power.
ST. DOMINGO Chr, March 8. 1850.
Jealousy Of americans Axsonga tie Fbreioners-A Chance
for 1Htoprtstso kes-A Hint 10 President B,schana~-
Report Of TIE Committee Buried Ttsasure-Improvs-
ments-aM Tobacco -Cc6se-Navtgasion Of As
Pdgue Riuer-HeqM of President Sdntana, dc.
After period Of repose, succeeding their grand coup in
forcing the Dominican government to recognise and
redeem the paper issued by the late niger chief
Baez for his own personal aggrandizement, the TO.
sneakng around the administration breathng hatred from
their hearts and cowardy insinuatons from their Lips
against the American element now settling amongst u.
Sneakng is the term To apply TO such conduct They
bring no direct charges and have arguments TO offer
against the present policy of tho government fsvorng
American emigration, but content themselves with OBJ
serving that their governments-France England and
Epan-canno look with favor upon possible predoni'
nance Of Yankee pluck such exceedingly suggestive pro-
pnqutyo their respective Majesss possessions 10 not
at all probable that we shall back out in
sequence from vested rights in this domain.
Neither likely that Cufee and Sambo about risk.
ing their shns by another invasion Of the Dominican re-
public. jean Bsptste Francois Hypahe Crapeau win have
70 ret up little earlier in the morning, and take hs
breakfast before 10 O'Clock AN he expects 10 get the
Americans out and the Haytens In to make his Hayden
lain little better Gerhard ID satisfied TO let well enough