New national era
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The newspaper reported that the Dominican Republic possesses highly productive agricultural lands capable of yielding sugar-cane, tobacco, tropical fruits, and dyes with less labor than Louisiana beet sugar lands. It described the island as the gateway to the Caribbean Sea and noted that its sparse population is industrious, free of caste, and anxious to join their fortunes with the United States. Additionally, the excerpt detailed England's strategic military positions and island holdings around Cuba, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Caribbean Sea.
El periódico refirió que la República Dominicana cuenta con terrenos agrícolas altamente ubérrimos capaces de producir caña de azúcar, tabaco, frutos tropicales y tintes con menor faena que las tierras remolacheras de Luisiana. Describió a la isla como la llave de acceso al mar Caribe y ponderó a su escasa población como laboriosa, exenta de prejuicios de casta y ansiosa por enlazar su destino al de los Estados Unidos. El texto desgranó además las posiciones militares estratégicas y las posesiones insulares que Inglaterra mantenía en torno a Cuba, el golfo de México y el mar Caribe.
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leys and lowlands are of great productiveness, p
the sugar-cane requiring resetting only once in c
twenty years, and producing to the acre, with 1
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much less labor, nearly double that of the beet
I sugar lauds of Louisiana. Tobacco, tropical
fruits, dyes, and all the imports of the Equatorial
region, can be produced on these lands.
The island is the gate of the Caribbean Sea,
and oq the line of the transit to the Isthmus ot'
Darien, destined at no distant day to be the lina
of transit of half the commerce of the world.
Dominica has but a sparse population, represented
to be in entire sympathy with our ioatitutioas,
and anxsous to join their fortnnee to
ours industrious, if made to feel that the products
of their industry are to be protected, and
tolerant as to the religious or political views
of their neighbors. Caste has no foothold in
San Domingo.
A glance at the map will show that England
haa now a cordon of island# extending from
Southern Florida to the east of the island of
Culta, with Jamaica and Grand Carman south
of that island, and a foothold upon the mainland
of Central America, thus commanding on
both sides of Cuba the entrance to the Gulf ot
Mexico, a gulf which borders upon to largo a
part of the territory of the United States.
Again, she baa a succession of islands run
ning from tbe east of St. Thorns* to South America,
with another foothold upon the mainland,
British Guayoa, thus nearly surrounding the
Caribbean Sea.
The coasting trade of the United States be
tween tbe Atlantic seaboard and all parts wett
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Record: cr17811-2
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New national era. (1871). Washington, D.C., 1871-05-18. US/DR Newspaper Timeline, record cr17811-2. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn84026753/1871-05-18/ed-1/?sp=3
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Library of Congress, Chronicling America: New national era, 1871-05-18.