The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1870-07-07

executed No objection TO the protocol was
ever whispered until it's publication, and then
foolish partisans Of the President sought to
shift upon BAEz the responsibility for an net
done by GRANTS special agent, and approved
by him as President.
Mr.. FABENs appears in four capacities In
this business First, as the associate oil
CAzNEAU, holding large concessions from
the Dominican Government, and the real
author of annexation; secondly. as the agent
of sroFFoRD & TILEsToN, also holding large
CONCESSIONS and largely interested in an
nexation thirdly, rs the agent of the United
States Navy at Samann; and fourthly, as
Minister Plenipotentiary Of St Domingo.
The Government of Bolivia recently ap-
pointed Mr.. Caldwell, formerly United
States Minister there, to be its Minister at
Washington. Setting aside the precedent in
Mr.. BuRL1NaAME's case, which was held to
be exceptional and different in principle, Mr.
FISH refused TO receive Mr. CALDWELL upon
the distinct ground that he was an American
citizen, and therefore was not properly com
petent as such to represent a foreign Govern
ment in diplomatic character he laid the
rule down strongly and irrevocably, as was
then stated But when the 81. Domingo
Job, in which the President manifested such
extraordinary zeal, had to be pushed at every
hazard and with all the force OF the Admin
istraton. and its patronage exercised in a
corrupting and scandalous manner upon the
Senate. Mr.. Fish did not scruple for a mo-
ment to break his own sclfimposed rule. He
welcomed FABENs, the manager of this
| scheme, as Minister Plenipotentary from
BAEz, knowing him to be, as FABENs him
self stated before the Committee, Z" n native
of the United States and an American
citizen" What charming consistency
Nothing so disgraceful to the country has
occurred in our whole history as this st.
Domingo affair, from the beginning TO the
end. II ANDREw JOHNSON had been con
cerned in it as Gen. GRANT is, no human
power could have prevented the success of
impeachment The instruments and means
employed, together with the secret and sus-
picious character of the transaction, demand
the sterncst treatment More than one hun
dred and fifty thousand dollars in gold have
been sunk, to say nothing of the expenses
charged TO the secret service fund, which
will never appear Besides these facts, ships
of war werc withdrawn from Cuba, where
they might have protected American citizens
against brutal murder and sent to st. Do
mingo to enforce annexation and see it voted
as free expression of the people.
There is an evident breaking up Of the
Republican column, which is spreading
alarm far and wide. This Dominican affair
only hastens the catastrophe Gen. GRAN
has not only failed TO meet the expectation o
the party, but he has exhibited an obsti
macy, combined with incompetency, threat
cning the most serious consequences. Ii
shows the worst points of JouNsoN's ma
ture, without his political ability. The alien
alton and dsatItction among Republican
are open and growing. Power and patron
age alone prevent direct issue now betweel
the party and the President But it mus
come in some form. and before long.