Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-06-06
From the baltimore Gazette.l

| From the Baltimore Gazette.
! WASHINGTON, June 1, 1870.-The
new phase of the San Domingo treaty
presented to the Senate yesterday by
the Executive is the most contempt.
bic that could be imagined, and Is
equally impracticable to be adhered
/ to. The proposition is to pay one
million and a half dollars for the is
! land, this sum to he considered as the
/ ultimate amount for which the Uni
| ted States shall ever be held account
able. Especial care is taken, it VIII
! be seen, to provide that debts due
! foreign Governments, or the citizens OF
| foreign Governments, shall first be
paid out of the purchase money. Sup
pose the sum asked of Congress shall
be insufficient even for this purpose
las it undoubtedly will be) what
then?
In respect to debts due by the Do
minicanCG CGOvernment, called in the
''treaty" domestic debts" lin which
are included, l suppose, obligations
due the citizens of the United States),
the treaty expressly cOntemplates the
privilege of repudiatiOn on the part of
the "new State" or States to be ad-
mitted into the Union, carved out to
suit the convenience of the negro
lords of the island! Laying aside the
cOiCGrdLy distinction drdiCR by the pro-
posed amendments TO the treaty 6etlCeeH
e" foreign" and "dOHleStjc'' dsltS, and
saying nothing about the inherent
meanness of the intellect that could
have conceived deliberately such a
piece of wholesale swindling, it may
well be inquired whether the ratif-
cation of the tredty-under WhatSO-
ever strict provisions of this desCEip-
tiOn-wOuld be bar to claims of any
kind now existing against what is
called the dominican Government"
Undoubtedly an act of COngress-pO-
tent against every would
easily upset treaty stipulations upon
this point. There would be money
in such Job" and who doubts the
success Of Congressional jObbers?
But looking at the matter through
the spectacles of our honest and ecO-
nOmical Chief Magistrate, and sUppOs-
ing that however large the "dOmes-
tic" Indebtedness Of the present Gov
ernment of the island, IL may all be
wiped out by a fraudulent transfer to
this country. Between individuals
such a transaction would not only be
void, but subject the parties, in many
localities, to incarceration in the peni-
tentiRrV. Is il because Governments,
or those who carry them on, are not
liable to such punishment that such a
sOulleSS suggestion is broadly made to
Statesmen" in this enlightened day,
and in this progressive epoch of Chris
tianity and civilization
BOndhOlders had better iGOk this
proposition squarely in the face. 1t is
the first and only barefaced proposal
of deliberate repudiatiOn aggravated
by premeditatiOn) that was ever made |
by any government in the civilized /
world. 1t Partakes, besides, of the |
very nature of receiving stolen goods, |
knowing them to have been stolen, !
but is meaner and more dastardly in |
proportion to the diminutiOn of risk |
provided for by securing - foreign /
governments" against loss by the in
famous proposition. let this treaty /
be ratified, and where, in the morale |
Of the Radical faction, can the credit
Ors of this government find safTty /
from downright " reputation.
whenever the exigencies or tire
cupidity Of the ruling powers shall
suggest the necessity or CoEyenience
Of disregarding its obligations?
1t is said that the treaty will not be
ratified. To say the truth, in a nut
shell, there is a tremendous O. job" in
his affair. | gave some particulars
when the matter was up before. Have
he real difficulties in the way been
Jbviated? Have the c9ntrivers of the
present owners of prOmi-
lent sites-been forced to disgOrge? l
near so. II this be the cases the
treaty" will go through 81 Ike a
whistle" If not, the above remarks
nay have some effect, and be used as
IN apology for non-concurrence! In
what day and among what a set of
)tticial rapscalliOns do we liYei