Santo Domingo, Past and Present: With a Glance at HaytiHarper & Brothers, 1873 - 511 Seiten |
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affairs annexation appears APPENDATORY Assembly authorities Azua Baez beautiful blacks Cabral called Cape Cape Francois Cape Samana cattle chief Cibao coast coffee colony colour Columbus command Commissioner Cotuy Cristophe Cuba Dessalines Diego Columbus Dominican English entirely famous favour France French gold Gonaives Government Governor hammock harbour Hayti Haytian hills horses immense Indians inhabitants Isabella Island of St Jamaica known La Vega labour land large number Lond miles Monte Cristo mountain mulattoes native nature negroes Neyba Ovando Ozama Ozama river Paris party plain plantations planters population port Port-au-Prince possession President principal Puerto Plata republic revolution river road Saint Domingue Samana Samana Bay Santana Santiago SANTO DOMINGO savanna seems seen shore side slaves Spain Spaniards Spanish St Domingo city superb tion to-day tobacco Tortuga Toussaint town treaty trees troops United Vega vessels village woods Yaqui
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Seite 7 - 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 468 - San Domingo will become a large consumer of the products of Northern farms and manufactories. The cheap rate at which her citizens can be furnished with food, tools, and machinery will make it necessary that...
Seite 467 - 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 in the Bay of Samana.
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 468 - 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 468 - 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 468 - ... 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. 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 rendezvous upon our very...
Seite 468 - This will open to us a still wider market for our products. The production of our own supply of these articles will cut off more than one hundred millions of our annual imports, besides largely increasing our exports. With such a picture it is easy to see how our large debt abroad is ultimately to be extinguished.