The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-03-27

tasket, with six s2 pounders $500 pounds aud one
6o.pounder rne aud the Yautic with one 1i-luch
gnn snd two s-inch. And then came the Tennessee
WIN TWO u inch md two 9tuch guns, two 1907
FOUNDER and one 20 FOUNDER It's spar deck, ana
sixteen e-inch gurs on its gun deck, TO augment
these forces, already dsproportinned to any proper
object The Cot missont are announced as minis
tes Of peace mt al events their declared duty is
ascertain the real sentiments Of the people. Why
send them In war shp7 Why cram the 1--we m a
car mons mouth? There are good steamers a. New
\ ork, safe aud seaH Orthy, whose presence would
not swell the array OF war nor subject the Great
Republic to the grave imputston OF seeking 10
accomplish its PM pose 10y violence
TRAGICAL END OF SPANISH OCCUPATION
II while neg tiating with the Dominicans fr their
ter tory and what is more than tsrritory their ma
uohal ne, You will NOT follow Spanish example and
aud threatening thunder least be tang ht by the
tragedy which attended even this most propItOus
attempt. The same volumes OF authentic docu-
ments from which have reac show how notwith
standing the apparent spontan eousness, freedom,
and uuaumity OF the invitation the forbearance OF
Span was followed by resistance where sun and
climate united with the people An onicia report
laid before the Coftes describes nine Thousand
Spanish soldiers dead with disease while the Span
ihh occupation was reduced to three towns on the
sea board, and It was perous for small parties 10
60 any distance outside the walls OF the city OF st
The fame report declares that twenty Thousand
troops. provided for campaign Of SIX months
would be required TO penetrate 'the heart Of Ciban"
which is the very region now occupied by General
Sabral, VINO DISPUTES the power OF Baez. AT las
Spain submitted. The spirit of Independence pre-
vailed once more on the island, and the proud ban
eral congratulations, and with the boast of not a
Spanish bottom or Spanish soldier near was with
drawn.
AN ENGLISH PRECEDENT
The example of Spain is reinforced by an English
precedent where may ne seen in the light OF aioRy
Inc trne rule OF conduct. BY statute OF the last
century, all soldiers quartered at the place of an
election for members of Parliament were removed
~ least one day before the election the distance
OF two miles or more, and though this statute mas
been modified latterly, the principle has been pre-
served No soldier within two miles of a place OF
Rku
quarters in which lie is stationed, unless to mount
guard or to vote. This safeguard OF elections is
ylndcated by the great commentator, Sir William
Blackstone, when he says at IL essential TO the very
being OF Parliament that elections should be abso.
iutey Iree, therefore all undue Influences upon the
electors are illegal and strongly prohibitedn
BLACKSTONE, Comm, Vol !, p, 17s; stephens, Comm,
In accordance with this principle, as early as l7ss
committee Of the other house OF Congress re-
pofteo against the seat OF a Representative on the
ground that United States troops were quartered
noar the place OF election, and were marched in
oody round the courthouse. Contested Elections
p 70, case OF Mr.. Preston) And now that an cleo
non is TO occur In ST. Domingo, where national indie
pendence is the question, nothing is clearer than
ihst IL should be- in the language of Blackstone,
absolutely free and to this end all naval force
should be Withdrawn at least until the 'electlon" is
determined. Lord Coke, the great English autho-
Iy tells us that election is 'when man is left to
bis own free will to take or do one thing another
can people must be left to their own free win.
SEIZURE OF WAR POWERS BY OUR GOVERNMENT.
All this Is preliminary, although pointing the way
w JuSJ COllCltlSlOl. III is only when enter
details and consider what as been done by our
Government, that we recognize the magnitude OF
me question. Unless the evidence supplied by the
agents OF our Government Is at fault the
ports OF the state Department and Navy Depart
mebt are dfscrt dlted, it's obvious beyond doubt
most pam uly plain and indisputabe, that our Gov
elI ment has seized the war powers carefully
guarded hy the Constitution. ard without the au-
thcrtty Of Congress has employed them to trampe
on the indC pendence and equal rights of two ma
tlons, coequal with ours unless TO carry out this
at defiance first principle OF international law.
This Is no hasty or idle allegation, nor is It made
without mmeasurable regret. And the regret is
increased by the very. strength OF the evidence
which is strictly official and beyond all question
BAEZ THE UsUaPER
In this melancholy business the central figure is
But nvenlura Baez, unless we except President
Graz I, To whom some would accord the place of
To appreoia The case, and especially To- compre-
hend the breach OF public Law, you must know some
thing OF the former, ami how he has been enabled
TO play his part Dominican by birth, with much of
Spanish blood, and with Trench education, he 8 q
cross where these different elements are somewhat
rudsy intermixed. All his life he has been adven-
tureI Onspirator and trickster uncertain in opin
ions, without character, without patriotism, without
uutE looking out suDremey for himself, aud oa any
sde according to imagined personal Interest, being
once 8s violent against the United States ne now
PROCESSES TO be Tor them.
by the influence Of General Santana Baez OBJ
taint his 1fst election President In 1885, when.
contrary to positive provision OF the Constitution
against second term except after the intervention
OF sn entire term, he managed by fraud and in.
ir'eue to obtain another lease OF power. Beginning
T. us early his violations OF the Constitution he be-
came an expert But the people rose against him,
and he was driven 10 find shelter within the walls of
the city. He had never been friendly to the United
States and at this time especially abusive His
Captuaton soon followed, and after eleven months
OF usuTped power he left for France. Santana sue
ceeded To the Presidency, AMI under him. In 1861
the country was reincOrporated with Spdin amidst
the prevailing enthusiasm OF the people.
Anxious TO propiliate the different political Chiefs
the Spanish Government Offered BaeZ Field Mar
khals commission on condition that he should re-
main IN hurope, which L understand he acceOted.
for some years there was peace in Dominica, when
the people under the lead OF the patriot Cabrd rose
against the Spanish power. During this prOtI acted
period OF revolution, while the patriotism OF the
country was stirred TO It's utmost depths, the Dom
mean adventurer clung to his spanish commission
with us hohoTs and emoluments, not parting with
them until SIX weeks after the COTtes aJ Madrid had
renounced the country and ordered its evacuation
and then IN his letter OF resignation addressed TO the
Queen, under date OF dune 10. 1865, he again OUT
ragged the feelings OF h g countrymen by declaring
his regret at the failure of annexation Spain and
his "1egald for her august person and the noble
Spanish nation" against whose arms they had been
hghting for Independence. Losing his SpauIsh
honOrs and EN- uluments, the adVenturer was at
once changed into cOnspirator, being always
tr1ckstr, and from his European retreat began mis-
Vaccinations for power. Are We not told by the
pIONerO that the devil has long arm?
On the disappearance or the Spanish nag Cabral
bt came Protector and a national convention was
summoned 10 frame Constitution and to organize
Lew Government. The people were largely in
Isvor OF abTsl, when armed men, in the name of
Baez and stimula en- by his emissaries, overwhelmed
The assembly with Violence forcing the coasprator
IN power Cabral, who seems to have been always
pIunent and humane anxious to avoid bloodshed
and tbink ing that his considerable European resi-.
dence might have improved the nsurper, consented
TO accept place In the cabinet which was inaugu-
rated Decen her g. 1865. ILgOtten power is short
lived revolution soon began, aud in the month of
May BaeA after mrs. nnding asylum in the French
consulate ned TO foreign ports.
TIE official journal Of st. Domingo, El Monitor
dune 2, 1867, now before me- shows how the fugl-
live iyTant Was regarded at this tme In the lead