New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-10-26
FOREIGN MISCELLANY.
sANTO DOMINGO.

PORT.
JAcMEI. Hayti, Oct 2-This curious history was
given to your correspondents Oy or
in it-Gen. " of santo Do,ningo-with full permis-
in co make it public. 1t contains not only the pun
% the SANTANA affair but key to the present Vfe"s
of European policy at SANTANA a..
"I have been, as you know" sa'd Ten " III
close official relations with ell the Dominican FresA
dents except Baez who have treated about ea'nan"
and have through them all been the warm lrlenu
of Cazneau from to-day back to 1854, when nc O~io
ont to get it for @ naval station ana comuleI'N4
center for the United States. We have TuSVeU o~On
other The first arrangement was for perpetual
laase of a naval station at . merely nominal rent
yvbieh vas not To exceed 5000 . year-but all the
,vorld knows how France and England clustered NJ
che iaea Of allowing the encroaching Yankees such
footboId in the West Indies. They orow-Deat our
President into recoil, and" v. added with an iu-
doscribable accent of rOnica contempt, President
Pierce retired from the SANTANA question with the
rrndencc Of the serpent and the meekness of the
dove.
This recoil of the American President left the
1,or;nicans exposed to the wrath and exaCtions of
vronce Snain and England, and they made MS suffer
sono hitter humatiOns, but it did not destroy the
American party.
we told Cazneau, the L. s. Commissioner, that he
had led us into bad position by inducing our Gov
eminent to believe that the American Cabinet would
protect its own honor, since all that had been done
by Ills was to frankly accept what the United States
had proposed, and that for this alone we had been
left to the dspeaSure of great Powers who were the
rivals of the United States not of our one little State
"Cazneau finally Gained and reunited us by pro-
posing measure which promised safe allies to SantO
Domingo, without giving grounds of Ofense TO the
great European Powers
1T was reduced to three articles and is still be
Heved in and adhered to by most Of those who in 1853
1859 submitted it semi-oficialy to our own and to
other Governments. Two copies were taken from
Cazneau's memorandum, in his own handwriting, OF
which have one. The original, In Spanish, French
and English, was afterward sent by Santana to
Madrid to hurry up the Ministry in their plan for ex-
tingushihg the Dominican Republic, and with 1t the
Monroe Doctrine"
These are the articles constituting the Cazneau
programme, at first opposed by France as well as
Spain but more lately favored according to Gen. w.
by two much greater Powers:
a. The Dominican Government agrees to declare sama;
%%d muniGp" basis Of St. Thomas and will invite ali
nations TO recognize its territory neutral OF war
lend it as a free and equal eMtspO and alike open to
the citizens Of all the recognizing powers for trade and
80 The Dominican Republic, while maintaining its re-
c6ncede to the said Commercial eSrsp0f the Smpest
municipal independence and will also grant to duly
petuy whatever public lands may be found in the
occupation Of the Government existing local authOr
ties and 1t also grants the said proposed Association
the right 10 lease subet TO the individuals incOrpO
rSGns Of any Of the recognzas powers proper sites for
with the spirit Of this convention and the
IS. For these rights of municipal freedom and ex
emPhon from the impost Of government taxes tariffs
Inereal privileges OF true and recognized neutrality
and will engage in behalf of, the inchOate international
Association to the duly authorized agent of the
perpetnty or go long as tine conditions Of this cOnyen
Sn DC IN G5 S 70 be P In 30a
may be agreed upon between the contracting parties
upon the delivery In form Of the necessary documents"
From 1854 to 1857 the United States might have
had naval station at SANTANA for $1,000 year.
From 1857 to tho close of 1852 the cession of naval
station, with free port, not open to the United
States for less than $4,000. From the beginning Of
1850 to the close of 1854 Spain ruled the Dominican
territory but when the natives had expelled the
Spanish forces the old bargain of SANTANA at $4,000
ayear-joIned to a friendly mediation with Spain
Cas offered to the United States. Secretary Seward
for some unknown reason, repulssd the dominican
Envoy and rejected with equal disdain the alter
natives of United States naval station or free
port at SANTANA. Subsequently, however," con-
linued Gen. v, Mr. Seward appears to have taken
fresh view Of the case, for he offers Denmark five
millions for ST. Thomas and almost at the same
time he proposed to us at Santo Domingo two mil
hons for SANTANA"
The accession of Baez to power closed that chap
Ter of negotiations, but the accession of President
Grant revived it in new shape fOr Baez oecldeQ IN
favor of that annexation to the Union. Should he
fail in that the whole force of the ruling classes will
unite without regard to old differences on the free
mort and neutral territory policy to which, says Gen.
e. 50 many of us have adhered for years, and in
which~we are now certain we shall be sustained by
the liberal encouragement Of the three greatest OF
the European powers.
This statement was confirmed to me but few
days since by a gentleman who has held Cabinet
p0siton under Baez and under one Of the preceding
Presidents; and he added these significant words;
"If our country the Dominican Republicl can en-
fer the Union as a State the Texas precedent, l.
and nine-tenths of the Dominicans, viii render our
allegiance with joy and gratitudej but we are not
HONORABLE quota of wealth and power and these re-
sources are the gift of God and of God alone Should
the United States reject the Dominican State, the
Washington Government must allow the Dominican
people to accept the aid and protection of Europe
even though may take the shape of trade treaties
unfavorable to the commercial income of the
Union"