The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-08-14

shonid he established between the two scouDries
terms compatible with the honor OF Dotn taI ons
TairdThat all questions arising out Of the iatc events
should be afterwards settled py special comisoners
70 meet either at Madrid st. Domingo for that purpose
Fouy-If SO mutually agreed, the original treaty OF
.mi,v commerce Ne made in 1856 Between Spain and
the Dominican Republic, to be declared in full force
Nfh-Domincans who had been taken into the mill
tary service spain be amnested for leaving the
'Ai Ssa~A mutual exchange Of military and political
SSuenth-The amount OF arms and munitions OF war
received by Spain taking possession Of the Dominican
forts TO be left them, and also the national edices
and archives TO be turned over in their existing con-
dion.
St Domingo the native authorities should be effected
with due international couresies both parties taking
steps to preserve perfect order and tranquility.
General Gandara accepted the substance Of all these
conditions, though he insisted on phrases that would
give Spain the air Of granting fayors rather than OF
6rst. and above all things he demanded exactly what
the commissioners privately instructed TO be
their guard against admitting, viz, that Spain came 70
the country at the spontaneous and urgent petition Of
the Dominican people, and now withdrew from 1t Of her
free will purely and solely because she had learned
that the majority OF the Domincans desired an ndepen-
dent nationality and that the war she had made on them
was strictly just6able inasmuch she had to
believe the majority OF the Dominicans were attached to
the Spanish rule. The commissioners demurred, for
they knew the object in forcing them put this false
and humilating statement on record was to enable
Spain 10 place them, instead of accepting for herself
the responsibility OF this striking violation OF the Monroe
doctrine. Gandara declared the must continue and
that the Spanish navy in the Antilles would maintain
perpetual blockade Of all the Dominican coasts and
harbors'' until this hard declaration subscribed
and ratified. In their excessive anxiety to see the
Spanards leave their land in peace the commissioners
induced to sign it. They did 80 June O. 1885, and
the treaty. with this alsehood forming its first article
submitted to the Dominican Executive II was at once
Indignantly and publicly rejected by the Dominican Ca
bnet The commissioners who acceded to II were re-
called and officially censured and others appointed to
negotiate treaty though with the exception Of
this clause the general conditions Of that Of June
accepted But General Gandara having to certain de-
gree carried his point refused to receive the new com
missoners and declares that and perpetual block
ade shall be maintained until the Domincans accept and
ratfy the treaty Of June 8; but enreat friends
in the United Sates-if we have any-to believe that
feeble are will endure other years Of
and suffering before will falsely declare to the world
that the Dominican people were base enough 70 invite
Spain to accept slaves that owe our inde-
pendence to any power except Divine Providence and
our own efforts. Axs. nystsysfa scsr,e.E-