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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Santana, Pedro 1801-1864 (search)
Santana, Pedro 1801-1864 Statesman; born in Hincha, Santo Domingo, June 29, 1801; studied law; appointed brigadier-general and served in the rebellion against the Haitian government in 1844; led 2,400 men, with whom he defeated the southern army of 15,000 on March 19; elected President in November of the same year; favored the movement for the annexation of Santo Domingo to the United States which was defeated by Baez. He died in Santo Domingo, June 14, 1864.
Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career., Chapter 17: (search)
, that this violence has been employed, first, to prop and maintain a weak ruler, himself a usurper, upholding him in power that he might sell his country; and, secondly, it has been employed to menace the Black Republic of Hayti. He denounced Baez as a usurper who would sell his country, and said that the treaty was a violation of the Constitution of the United States, as well as of that of San Domingo. On the ensuing day Mr. Howe replied to Mr. Sumner, defending Baez; and he insinuated, iution of the United States, as well as of that of San Domingo. On the ensuing day Mr. Howe replied to Mr. Sumner, defending Baez; and he insinuated, in conclusion, that Mr. Sumner, Judaslike, was trying to stab the Republican party in the back. Replying to Mr. Howe, Carl Schurz in a very brilliant speech said, Mr. Sumner had plunged his dagger not into the Republican party, but into Caesarism; and we cannot forget that the world has agreed to pronounce Brutus the noblest Roman of them all.
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 52: Tenure-of-office act.—equal suffrage in the District of Columbia, in new states, in territories, and in reconstructed states.—schools and homesteads for the Freedmen.—purchase of Alaska and of St. Thomas.—death of Sir Frederick Bruce.—Sumner on Fessenden and Edmunds.—the prophetic voices.—lecture tour in the West.—are we a nation?—1866-1867. (search)
d. Lord Russell's refusal of our offer in the Alabama case is the reason. I should like to put an end to this abnormal condition if possible. There are claims of Prussia, which my excellent friend Baron Gerolt is pushing with ardor. He hoped to sign a convention for a joint commission; but Mr. Seward retreated after the convention had been drawn up and ready for signature. The baron feels sore; the secretary says he must leave it to Congress. Of course this adds to my work. General Baez, This first interview with the Dominican adventurer is referred to in Sumner's speech, March 27, 1871. Works, vol. XIV. p. 187. the deposed president of Dominica, has been here to obtain help of some kind. Seward would not see him. I listened to his bad French by the hour. There is also the Cretan question, which is becoming interesting. Seward wishes us to sanction a minister to Greece; but I fear a political job. Again, December 30:— Sir Frederick Bruce tells me confiden
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 55: Fessenden's death.—the public debt.—reduction of postage.— Mrs. Lincoln's pension.—end of reconstruction.—race discriminations in naturalization.—the Chinese.—the senator's record.—the Cuban Civil War.—annexation of San Domingo.—the treaties.—their use of the navy.—interview with the presedent.—opposition to the annexation; its defeat.—Mr. Fish.—removal of Motley.—lecture on Franco-Prussian War.—1869-1870. (search)
have been attempted later still. Cabral and Baez had for some years alternately held power in Sahered to the independence of his country; while Baez, with his more complete training and greater crrper, and bided his time for recovering power. Baez had no troops at command sufficient to disperseval of the project led to the final downfall of Baez and his party in 1878. The acquisition of the r his inauguration by that indefatigable trader Baez, followed shortly by a second gentleman Prob of orders from Robeson directed the support of Baez against his enemies, or any revolutionary forcez. The ships were sent from place to place, as Baez requested, to protect him against his rival Cabg the navy of the United States was the navy of Baez. So precarious was his power at the time that , with the khedive as a puppet corresponding to Baez, is not more complete than was ours at that times from San Domingo, which revealed to him that Baez .was maintained in power by our navy. I confes[6 more...]
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 56: San Domingo again.—the senator's first speech.—return of the angina pectoris.—Fish's insult in the Motley Papers.— the senator's removal from the foreign relations committee.—pretexts for the remioval.—second speech against the San Domingo scheme.—the treaty of Washington.—Sumner and Wilson against Butler for governor.—1870-1871. (search)
shed, and on account of the superior power of the United States was not likely to be. He gave to Baez, Cazneau, and Fabens the character of political jockeys, Davis Hatch, who knew Baez well, wrotBaez well, wrote that the term jockey was fitly applied to him. New York Evening Post, Feb. 10, 1871. and described Babcock as a young officer who, acting without known instructions, had assumed in the protocol a lofty title. The stress of his speech was in support of the allegation, based on documents, that Baez had been maintained in power by our navy, and that the President had in his message menaced the indn the earlier debate but with fuller knowledge, the character and proceedings of the negotiators (Baez, Cazneau, Fabens, and Babcock), the orders of the navy department, and the conduct of the officers of the ships, which were a menace to Hayti as well as the sole support of Baez. He upheld by citations from international law the equality of States, denying the right to do aught against Hayti whi
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 59: cordiality of senators.—last appeal for the Civil-rights bill. —death of Agassiz.—guest of the New England Society in New York.—the nomination of Caleb Cushing as chief-justice.—an appointment for the Boston custom-house.— the rescinding of the legislative censure.—last effort in debate.—last day in the senate.—illness, death, funeral, and memorial tributes.—Dec. 1, 1873—March 11, 1874. (search)
considered haste with which, without the support of the committee, He rushed through the repeal. Baez has Again in the United States to promote the annexation of San Domingo. from the beginning be He was greatly wrought up on the last two days of his going to the Senate by the report that Baez, who was already in New York, was to receive a complimentary dinner in Boston. He wrote letters stopped. Dr. S. G. Howe had taken the leading part in proposing and arranging this compliment to Baez. Though his physician was reluctant to have him leave the house on Tuesday, the 10th, he went to of Boston in the Senate chamber, and sitting on the sofa spoke with him of the rumored dinner to Baez in Boston; and Mr. Candler assured him that it was not to take place. He mentioned his own weakn six Mr. Pierce and Mr. B. P. Poore found Sumner in his study. He spoke of the rumored dinner to Baez in Boston, and walked the room reprobating the idea. He had been writing letters, and when he ha
Jula Ward Howe, Reminiscences: 1819-1899, Chapter 16: visits to Santo Domingo (search)
heir money was used to inaugurate a revolution, which overthrew President Baez, and installed in his place a man greatly his inferior in talens convictions and sympathies being wholly on the other side. President Baez had received us with great cordiality. He called upon us soon r's invective against a traitor who sought to sell his own country. Baez had sense enough to recognize the security which annexation to the Uce a Virginia Reel, which was not much enjoyed by the natives. President Baez did not honor us with his presence, but his brother Damian and our party one by one. Before our departure from the island, President Baez invited us to a state dinner at his residence. The appointmentgreatly changed. The revolution already spoken of had expelled President Baez, and had put in his place a man devoted to the interests of Puee was still able to ride the beautiful Santo Domingo pony which President Baez had sent him three years before. This resource, however, soon
Jula Ward Howe, Reminiscences: 1819-1899, Index (search)
, 136. Atlantic Monthly, The, 232, 236, 280; first published the Battle Hymn of the Republic, 275. Austin, Mrs., sings in New York, 15. Avignon, the Howes at, 133. Bache, Prof. A. D., at Mrs. Howe's lecture in Washington, 309. Baez, President of Santo Domingo, calls upon the Howes, 355; invites them to a state dinner: is expelled by a revolution, 360. Baggs, Monsignore, Bishop of Pella, presents the Howes to the Pope, 125. Bailey, Prof. J. W., lectures on insectivorous pla341; goes to Santo Domingo with Dr. Howe, 349; holds religious services for the negroes there, 350-352; visits a girls' school, 352; invited to speak to a secret Bible society, 353; every-day life there, 357, 358; invited to a state dinner by President Baez, 360; her second visit to Santo Domingo, 360; her difficulties in riding horseback, 362; her interest in the emancipation of woman takes more definite form, 372, 373; attends the meeting to found the New England Woman's Club, 374; joins the
The Daily Dispatch: April 8, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
paniards, not more than eighty in all, arrived in St. Domingo, and the three officials among them immediately entered on their duties as collectors at the ports. The rest were mechanics. This is all the 'emigration' that has been sent to the Dominican Republic by Spain. "This policy of Santana furnished the material for creating an effective union among the opposition to his government. 'See! he is selling the country to the whites!" Even as early as last December, revolutionary circulars and proclamations were in type in St. Domingo, and a copy of the proofs, I know, were shown to a distinguished Ambassador at Paris. But this project was nipped in the bud; and Baez is still an exile. The intrigues of the opposition continuing and increasing, Santana has called for aid--first, in order to secure the perpetuity of his own government, and, secondly, to enable him to pay the loan. "This, I venture to say, is 'the sum total of the whole' hubbub that we hear from Havana.'"