The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1870-10-13
Gen. Grants Cuban and Dominican
Policy.

writes from st. Domingo as follows:
There are now ncre about one hundred refugee
Cnhau families, most OF them women ana children,
whose natural protectors have been slaughtered by
the Sp .niards or are now lighting IN tho paiki ct
ranks, ami with Int two or thrce exceptions they
have al been turned against annexation by the
Fshy-an' cuban policy. They tell horrible stories
of the way The Americans " the mechanic class are
treated In Cuba Those luTcd by high
WAGES to build and take charge of shops aud sugar
mills on large estates. Finding their situations
pleasant ana paying they brought over their wives
and IN many instances married iato the families Of
wealthy planters. Tho insults heaped upon this
class by the Spanish soldiers tongue tell,
decent hand dare write and the sufferers loudly &C
cuse he American state Department OF actually en-
couragiug these horrors BY s nyariabo refusal TO
attend to them and by always placidly accepting,
without reproof or inquiry, whatever nippant dc
NAL the Spanish officials condcsccnd to make.
II these charges are false or even much oxagrerat-
ed--which no one from Cuba belieyes-wh does
not Secretary Fish demonstrate more decidedly :
There II no shutting away from the fact that Spain
Is today paramount In st. Domingo; that the Gov
erument has Entrusted band Of Spanish police de.
tectiyes to watch and harass the cuban refugees,
many of whom were brought up and naturalized IN
the United states and that this is done because II
Is thought u would be pleasing to the American
cabinet Is az notorious AZ daylight here"
There seems to be no reason TO doubt the
authenticity of this information. Even il it
were not sustain oil by intrinsic cvide &c, it
but states tho logical results of Gen. GRANTS
foreign policy, which is identified with muir
der an5 violence in Cuba, with fraud and
deception in ST. Domingo, and with demon.
alization in Washington. This policy cul-
minated in betrnyiug the cause of Cuban
liberty, in riveting the chains of Spanish des-
potism, il allowing Americans to be tram
pied upon with impunity by the Spanish au-
thorites, in making shameful bargain for
depriviAg the Dominicans of their right Of
self.government, in rewnrding those who
connive at this annexation job, and in pun
ishing those who successfully opposed it.
Who can wonder that Democratic organs
like the World make capital for their party
out Of this infamous muddle. and hold up
Gen. GRANT to the scorn of Americans as
the imitator of the fallen BoNAPARTB7
Unfortunately for the Republican party,
truth and justice are on the side of their op-
pcnonts so far as this terrible impeachment
OF the GRANT and FISH Administration il
concerned. The struggle for seL govern
mcnt in Cuba was met in Washington by the
jeers and the snccrs of SIDNEY WEBSTER.
fatherin-law and of President PIERCE's
Attorney General. CALEB CUSHING and no
where in the whole world, not even at tho
Court of the Car or the Sultan, could there
have been displayed such rejoicing over the
trumphs Of tyranny and statecraft as in tic
capital Of the American Republic.
But it was not enough for Gen. GRANT to
play the Bonapartc in Cuba. There hap
10 -, al In, hon, tCrl,.
in which descendants OF the African rue have
established selfgovernment. This must also
be destroyed under the plea Of annexation
and it il difficult to cay which has most dis
gusted the American peop.e-the disregard OF
American rights and American sympathils in
Cuba, or the population in st. Domingo.
the Sun has never ceased 10 proclaim
the disastrous effect of this policy not only
on Cuban liberty and Dominican independ
ence, but ON the integrity and honor o. Gen
GRANT and the Republican party. On tho
other hand, the organs Of the FIsH-GRAS1
| dispensation have attributed the criticism o
ils misdeeds to personal animosty, and -
lauded 10 the skies policy which covers IT,
American q Sernmcnt with obloquy.
1t may be doubted whether Gen. GRANT
and FISH will take lesson from the down
fall of BoNAPARTE and RoUuER. IN Rer'',
lean America, as in Imperial t.ance, nj
change for the better is TO be e. ,cted unit.
our rulers are permitted TO mediate in til,
obscurity of private life upon the crimes
and blunders of their public career.