New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-01-30
TIE RE.EsTABLIsnED INDEPEND
ENCE OF SAN DOMINGO.

| 1t must have been profoundly Notifying to
the pride. not only of the Spanish ministry. but
of tho Spanish nation, to admit that power
which but recently claimed rank among the
acknowledged grand powers OF Europe, has
beer compelled by O small American State, not
Numbering more than 10000 inhabitants, to
consent to humiliatng peace. But there was
no choice left. The finances Of Spain ore in
such wreiched condition that no Minister Of
Finance could be found willing TO advocate any
longer the continuance of the vast eZpendi.
lures required for the attempted Sutjugauoh
of the heroic islanders OF San Domingo. The
Ministers have consequently prepared and pre-
sened to the Cortes bill, which proposes
repeal of that of the 10Th of May, 1861, by
which the territory of the Dominican monarchy
was incorporated with tho Spanish monarchy.
ard the adoption of tie nece sary measures Tor
;hr execution of this law. The failure of Spain
in The Dominican war is now 80 glarlng that the
Ministerial bill makes hardly any effort to palli-
ate it by the common diplomat generalties
and perversior of facts. lis frankly admitted,
that the chief reason on which former Minis.
try had based the right Of annexation, VIZ, the
unanimous call for annexation on the part OF
The D0mincans, has been found to baye
leen entirely fictitious. 1t is admitted
that the whole or nearly the whole people
of San Domingo had shown themselves opposed
to Spanish rule, and that a continuance OF the
war on the part Of Spain would make the war
one of conquest, which, the Ministry declare, Is
contrary to the Irrational, just, pacific and dis
Interested policy" Of Spain. 1t Is further ad'
milted-and this must have been the most NOR
ti!yirg part OF the confe ssion-that the Spanish
troops have been fairly beaten for, says the bill,
"the agitation increased and gained towns and
frontiers, extending over the whole OF the terri.
tory. and at this day the Spanish portion of the
Island Of San Domingo presents to the civilized
world the spectacle of an entire people in arms.
or the adoption of the bill there can be no
reasonable dc bt Nearly all political parties,
though from different motives, are in favor oft,
and popular opinion in Spain, we are told, has
received the announcement If tie bill with en-.
thusiasm. After The experience of the last three
years and the pre4elt manifestations OF the pub
lie will no Spanish statesman will eye! advo-
cate again the r, alncxation of San Domingo.
Thus the patriotism exhibited during tho last
three years by the D,mnicans has been glo-
riously rewarded, and their independence sue
cessfully restored. For Spain, this unexpected
issue may have much mere FERROUS consequence
than the mere abandonment OF the small Do.
minican Republic. 1t has exhibited, in an
manner and before the eyes of
the eni re world, the weakness OF irs rule in ts
American possessions. Cuba las long had
the nucleus IL party Of independence,
which the present exhibition Of exhaustion
by the mother country cannot fail to-
strengthen and to encourage. Any iasur-
rect.on in the Spanish domlnions III
America which gathers sufficient strength to
maintain during some time bcll;gcrent charac-
ter, will be sure to compel the Spanish Govern.
ment to abandon the combat By the heavy drain
upon Spanish finances. And the more the inde-
pendent states Of the American continent can
come to common understanding about. their
relations with Europe, the sooner will every
power Of Europe zee the impossibility OF ex-
tending their ruIc upon this continent.
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