Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-04-13

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that country without any public Ian
> OF one hundred and twenty or one hu
. dred and sixty poor Dominican men a
women, unaccustomed and UNWILLING
labor, could or would make even
smallest contribution to the payment
the public debt or even to their own 1
renee. An almost endless variety of G
penses would have to be entered into, 81
ane limit to the cost could hardly now
!. fixed.
I'll THE HEALTH CONSIDERATIONS
This question Senator Morrill, considered
grave one to be met. If the climate in santo
mlngo has always been so salubrious, why b
the population constantly waned The first re
son he gave was the unconquerable Incidence
tne people, which prevented thrift, and anothe
, unnealthlness OF the climate. In this connectit
he alluded to the Commissioners as follows:
! ~ course an excursion party, travelling on Il
bounty OF the government. with somethin e.of Il
pomp OF Antony visiting Cleopatra, sped along |
the imperial clarion of music and leaving II
stern frosts of northern winter for the soft an
sunny Lap OF the tropics, where the earth is q
ciso with greenest verdure, would be pleased an
IN smiles with everything; with the birds of I'll
ar, beasts of the field, and even with creepin
1nings. They are happy. Severe and irreverer
critics they cannot be. They are there for tb
purpose OF being pleased; nobody expected any
thing less and they would be careful not to st a
so long as to encounter the perils of the climate
How much knowledge, untinged by the animate
particles OF the rainbow would such an excur
sion party obtain as to the statistics of mortalit
| IN the traction OF five weeks of time, devoted +
| all the objects of their mission. not excludip,
social epjoyments and ceremonies, and, under tn
adrolt manipulation OF Baez, BANKRUPT az he i
In money, and with no reputation to spare
BIRDS OF passage, even the wild geese which o,
south in the winter and fly northward with tn,
earliest breath Of spring, might as well be sum
moned to testify about the dog-days they hat
never seen under the equator, as such February
party to testify touching the summer solstice al
Santo Domingo"
He proceeded to show by statistics that the
mortality in santo Domingo " as very great. and
that the climate was incompatible with labor
The experiments made within the las five wears
show that of some hundreds of men hired to on
and work on Santo Domingo plantations nearly
all Were stricken down with disease, and few
lived to return. In support of this assertion he
quoted chapter of Alison, the historian. a re.
port Of j. Somers Smith, Commercial Agent of the
United States in Santo Domingo, and other au-
thorities.
The Senator then proceeded to discuss this
gentleman somewhat at length, and declared that
1t would be a great mistake to suppose that Do
minlcans have more respect or affection for the
United States than they have for France or Spain.
From language, religion and association, their
lnherIng partlalities must all be in favor of the
Latin race and the infallible Catholic Church.
In ls4s the present adventurer, Baez, attempt
ed to sell out his country to France In 1861,
not to load the recital with other instances San
tana made a transfer of Domingo to Spain, at the
time with universal applause. But very soon
he people were inspired with other sentiments
and would not submit. Within three years they
irove all the Spanish forces out of their territory
Ind Spain, with enormous losses, once more aban-
Toned Santo Domingo. There is no more reason
% suppose the people favor the annexation now
proposed than that which they then trampled in
he dust of a revolution. Already evidence is ac-
umutatipg which shows the popular vote OBJ
aimed through the entcements of Baez and the
moral force of the guns of the United States
Navy, TO have been a delusive juggle. Cabral
nd his party protest against the validity of the
Ehole transaction, are now in arms successfully
isputing it, and the popular vote seems to have
cen poor copy of the very poorest Napoleon
sm 1t is clear that santo Domingo could only
e held by a military and naval force. as II has
cen held for the past year by our navy. II
nould also be noted that or the za,etn sanare
llles now claimed by Santo Domingo, 10000
luare miles are reported to be held and occupied
, Cabral or by Hayti. Did the Commissioners
enetrate this part of the island!
Finally, no Dominic an can be legally bound by
ny compact which carries with it territorial SOW
eighty. Their latest constitution declared that
neither the whole nor any part of territory shall
,-ais..eatoa.- we know, therefore, that not
'en he conscience of Baez, nor that of any other
ominlcan, can be in the way of repudiating an
t SO manifestly Illegal and constitutionally in
fensible.
THE PUBLIC VOICE AGAINST ANNEXATION.
While admiring the Presidents infexioIe per-
Verance more than his politica, sasacity on this q
estion, the Senator alluded to the Congression- G
vote against it as conclusive proof that it was
measure which the people desired. In the =
ssent House q 1ssesenatives it is likely to c
'eive more 1 rebuff; and yet a vote of q
House viii be necessary, or the appropriation C
carry the measure into effect will fail. The -
hate, as we learn from the message, has re-
ted treaty of annexation.
no DOMINGO AND HER DEBTS GO TOGETHER
10 one could doubt that, if annexation should
coed, the United States would be bound. BY d
irrational law as well as by honor, to pay all oi
outstanding obligations of the island. No c'
'ulation with Baez to the contrary would be sc
tn the paper on which it might be written. u
State or Territory could not be prosecuted for sF
like an individual. The United States itself ia
lid resist any such ipdisnity and would be held is
count for the old scores of an territory an
ed as surely as the husband, if the wife be in
ted before marriage, is bound afterward to ~,
the debt
any of these debts might be questionable II
the proof Of their validity, supported by par p.
interested, would be impregnabe. There sic
many large unsettled war claims which !
d not even be estimated. Hayti announced a
large claim, by no means easy to be settled III
administration ackno Wedges one class of otl
ms and another different class 1t was alb ex
for the present Dominican Government to -,
a schedule of their debts, which was reduced
heir own illegal and arbitrary edicts; and
was solely by this process and by emitting for
&C unt of interest they had contracted to pay ba,
o..
'ress their debt within the prescribed limits OH
100000. Instead of 81, SOC, 900 in gold, the cou
debt was quite likely to be very much nee
!. The case of Texas was cited, whose debts usr
the United States 10000, 900, after joint
ation Of Congress provided that Gin no event hui
the debts and liabilities to become a charge we
the Government of the United States" :
AMERICAN CHARACTER WORTH PRESERVING. abe
people Of the United States had personal not
national pride of character, which was both 49,.
1teo and acquired. They justly claimed oo'N
'eH-government was the best of all govern 1t "
); not that all men could or would govern that
selves, nor that it could be safely entrusted way
unframed, unlettered people of many other -.
ns. VIVA
to Domingo was not a transoendeut excep- over
and Its incorporation would be the incorpor- ness
OF an inferior element, designed to invite "du
larger accessions of the same sort and as
precursor it might be encouraged by those uie'
vould like nothing so much as to chronicle four
,iican degradation, though themselves not tant
~ oe released rom sucn lar on depend habi
+. Annexation should be sought, it should -.
as nee will Offering, and ought not to be upo'
or conquered. az though n few acres of tho OF q