New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-04-03

To ne Editor Of The " y TribsHe
SIR: find in all the dispatches Of The Associated
Press the following paragraph about Hsyti and 81.
Domingo:
Great excitement existed in Hsvsn. the subject Of the
spanh annexation Of s. Domingo u appesr tnst during some
PRODUCTION Of bodies Of .niuts into the Stand With the
toSnd The Republican Government and the first sign Of
OF the native population to invoke the aid Of
inst the Spanish fac hosed much to he conserns
ton II the and native inhabitants The Spanish fgse
Banca va. dispatched from Havana the 2od usdiassly
the receipt the above fully armed and equipped with
nse number Of regular troops on beard TO assist In this Spanish
pro,cor.,e or in other words annexation. This steam
ra,rs P-onez and Baeugues 70 follow
naval ard military force intending sest
s' and shout 700 regular also reported on the way
with France already IL said that ayuisto share
the fate Of lie sister republic"
This news is capable Of explanation at truth
full and less alarming than the comments Of The " T.
DaRy Tim,s, and the letter OF your Havana CORE
spondent.
Az the vast majority OF our citizens know nothing
about Hayti ard The Dominican Republic, excepting
that both are inhabited by people OF African descent, it
may be necessary state that the Island Domingo
or Hisraniola or Hayt, is held by two independent
na,ionalitiesat of the eastern part being known
the Dominican Republic or, oftener, ST. Domingo,
more frequently the Spanish part; and that of the
west formerly called the French part, being known
as the Republic of Hayt In the Dominican Republic
(which has population of 10000, the people, who
are chiefly mulattoes talk Spanish and were formerly
subjects of Spain therruler il President Santana,
nearly white whose sympahes, ideas, and tendencies
have all and always favored reunion OF his country 10
the unlnoherly mother Empire OF Spain. In Hayti
which has population yariously estimated at from
600 900 to ,2CO OOO, the people speak French They
are the descendans Of slaves and of free colored people
who succeeded in throwing OF the French domination.
Their ruler Is President Gerari who represents, in
his blood the three original races-lndian, black, and
white and whose earnest aim to establish powerful
independent nationality, TO be exclusively composed Of
men OF African descent
The eastern part or the Dominican Republic,
conquered by Toussaint L0uverture, having been pre-
yously ceded TO France by Span under the treaty Of
Basel but never formally delivered over TO that
Power. Toussaint had not quite completed its sub
jugaton when lie Clerc's expedition arrived, and
called him to the West During the war between the
Haytians and the French which followed the disem-
barkment of these troops Of Napoeon-who were
sent to reenslave the blacks, and We're ignomin-
ously defeated in the attempt-the eastern part
again put under the power of Spain, and was thus
uclu ic~li WITCH ieNoiutlOh oNcilhiOW ITO o"-
thority.
In 1872, the eastern part was united TO Hayti, then
governed by President Boyer. For twenty-five years
the whole Island acknowledged his authority On his
overthrow, in 1874, the Dominicans " seeded and
no reconstruction" with either Spain or Hayti has AS
yet been effected.
Since the independence Of the Dominican kepuphc,
two parties have divided and alternately governed It,
whose representative men Santana and BaeZ; andas
the words reunion and Independence indicate their
respective policies.
Unlike Gu sar Santana would rather be little man
in great country than great man in little country
Twice he has formally offered TO place the dominican
Republic under the Spanish Crown, and, iainng IN
these attempts, he eoquetted for similar purpose
VIII France and then for a confederate Union VIII
Venezuela. But none of these Powers would accept
his PROPOSALS France and Spain had been bitten once
and were satisfied with that experience and fenezue
did not want TO be bitten at all. Ills last desperate
effort was TO induce white emigration from the United
States but, although seconded by our Consus there
febose longer continuance in Office will be disgraceiui
10 our Republican Admnistration he slsnaly hnled to
interest either our capitalists aborerS in the project.
Some yenrs ago--what say now IL drawn from
Baytisu official sourees-Santana borrowed million