Santo Domingo: Past and Present, with a Glance at HaytiHarper & Brothers, 1873 - 511 Seiten |
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affairs American annexation appears APPENDATORY arrived authorities Azua Baez bank beautiful Cabral called Cape Cape Francois cattle chief Cibao climate coast coffee colony colour Columbus command Commissioner Cotuy Cristophe Cuba Dessalines Dominican famous favour France French Geffrard gold Gonaives Government Governor hammock harbour Hayti Haytian hills horses immense inhabitants Island of St journey known La Vega labour land miles Milot mines Monte Cristo Monte Cristo range mountain mulattoes native nature negro Neyba officers Ozama river party passed plain plantations planters population port Port-au-Prince possession present President principal Puerto Plata republic revolution river road ruins Samana Samana Bay Santana Santiago savanna seems seen shore side slaves Spain Spaniards Spanish St Domingo city stream superb tion to-day tobacco Tortuga Toussaint town treaty trees troops tropical United valley Vega vessels village woods Yaqui
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Seite 460 - ... mine, and soil of any of the West India Islands. Its possession by us will in a few years build up a coastwise commerce of immense magnitude, which will go far toward restoring to us our lost merchant marine.
Seite 5 - So loving, so tractable, so peaceable are these people," says Columbus in his journal, " that I swear to your Majesties, there is not in the world a better nation, nor a better land. They love their neighbors as themselves; and their discourse is ever sweet and gentle, and accompanied with a smile ; and though it is true that they are naked, yet their manners are decorous and praiseworthy.
Seite 460 - Porto Rico and Cuba will have to abolish slavery, as a measure of self-preservation, to retain their laborers. San Domingo will become a large consumer of the products of Northern farms and manufactories.
Seite 460 - Twice we must, as it were, pass through foreign countries to get, by sea, from Georgia, to the west coast of Florida. San Domingo, with a stable government, under which her immense resources can be developed, will give remunerative wages to tens of thousands of laborers not now upon the island.
Seite 459 - Republic of San Domingo to the United States failed to receive the requisite two-thirds vote of the Senate. I was thoroughly convinced then that the best interests of this country, commercially and materially, demanded its ratification. Time has only confirmed me in this view. I now firmly believe that the moment it is known that the United States have entirely abandoned the project of accepting as a part of its territory the island of San Domingo a free port will be negotiated for by European nations...
Seite 461 - ... way of the Isthmus of Darien ; it is to build up our merchant marine ; it is to furnish new markets for the products of our farms, shops, and manufactories ; it is to make slavery insupportable in Cuba and Porto Rico at once, and ultimately so in Brazil ; it is to settle the unhappy condition of Cuba and end an exterminating conflict; it is to provide honest means of paying our honest debts without overtaxing the people; it is to furnish our citizens with the necessaries of...
Seite 460 - The acquisition of San Domingo is desirable because of its geographical position. It commands the entrance to the Caribbean Sea and the Isthmus transit of commerce.
Seite 194 - Half-circling hills, whose everlasting woods Sweep with their sable skirts the shadowy floods : And say, when all, to holy transport given, Embraced and wept as at the gates of Heaven, When one and all of us, repentant, ran, And, on our faces, blessed the wondrous Man ; Say, was I then deceived, or from the skies Burst on my ear seraphic harmonies ?
Seite 192 - Twas the hour of day When setting suns o'er summer seas display A path of glory opening in the west To golden climes and islands of the blest; And human voices, on the silent air, Went o'er the waves in songs of gladness there...
Seite 460 - Islands. Its possession by us will in a few years build up a coastwise commerce of immense magnitude, which will go far toward restoring to us our lost merchant marine. It will give to us those articles which we consume so largely and do not produce, thus equalizing our exports and imports. In case of foreign war it will give us command of all the islands referred to, and thus prevent an enemy from ever again possessing himself of a rendezvous upon our very coast.