The war between Hayti and San Domingo. Proclamation of Buenaventura Baez, President of the Dominican Republic, to the Haytiens.

HAYTIENS!—The new President of the republic of Dominica addresses you, in the name of his fellow-citizens, and in the common interest of all. It is now nearly six years ago that we separated from you, and declared ourselves independent; and this separation, in spite of false assurances to the contrary, is destined to be an eternal one. We may yet live as good neighbors, though under different banners. We have treated you as brothers, proposing a peace, which is necessary to all our interests; but those who rule over you have always preferred a state of war; they have armed you against us, and doomed you to be shot, as many of you as were willing. You know what you suffered in the last campaign, which our brave Santana terminated so gloriously, and what is more, what confidence you have in men who could not deliver your territory. We have never attacked your independence; you can have no doubt of our feelings towards you; we have given you too many proofs of our moderation. But patience becomes sometimes exhaustion; and since you would not have peace, you, then, in your turn, support all the sufferings of war—a war that we will carry into your territory, because it is there only that we can make you feel our advantages and your weakness. We can hurt you without sacrificing our men or exhausting our riches. While we have only three cities on our coast, (and within sight of a fleet of thirty vessels, all well fortified and secure from attack,) your shores are covered with defenceless villages, small habitations, towns and cities, built of wood, without any defence, offering themselves an easy prey to flames and pillage. Your cities are going to disappear, and your mountains to be filled with the woods. Haytiens! Our fleet, well-armed, well-victualled, well-commanded, having numerous troops on board, has set sail to pillage your coast and intercept your shipping. Watch, then, night and day. Watch on the north, on the west, and on the south. Drive your wives and children into the morasses; abandon your fields to keep guard on the tops of the rocks—your guns in your hands in the wind and the rain—and then when you go home you will find your houses burnt down. You know all these sufferings already. You suffer them still, and you will continue to suffer them, really, dreadfully, by this war. To it you owe the misery with which you are overwhelmed, and you will suffer if you continue this war. Haytiens! We offer you peace; we offer you to live as neighbors, each in his own territory, making a mutual exchange of our commerce. If you wish for peace, you have it; if you will not have it, so be it. Let all the burden of the war rest on those, and those only, who will not force them to better measures.

By the President:

BUENAVENTURA BAEZ.

Minister of War, J. E. AYBAR.

ST. DOMINGO, November 16, 1849.