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The Republican Senate appears to have agreed with the Sun, for it rejected the nomination with no excuse and but little delay.
About this time the Sun condemned Fish for permitting his son-in-law to be counsel for the Spanish government, and for not stopping the war against Cuba.
It contended that the United States, within “five years after the abolition of slavery at home,” were permitting themselves “to be used to fasten slavery and the slave-trade anew upon the people of Cuba.”
While the Sun from the first favored the annexation of Santo Domingo by honorable means, it came out in January, 1870, against “the consummation of the iniquitous scheme ... without the honest consent of the Dominican people,” and raised a warning voice against “the visit of the President to the Senate's anteroom, to influence its action in favor of the Dominican Treaty,” as establishing a dangerous precedent.
Harper and Brothers, New York and London, 1907.
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