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The newspaper reported that the Spanish colony of St. Domingo was never primarily agricultural, as early colonists were drawn instead by gold mining. Due to a lack of agricultural enterprise, industry, and the departure of enterprise toward Mexico, the colony became isolated and stagnated. Consequently, the higher and richer classes lost their energy and ambition, sinking into intellectual and physical sloth while agriculture and wealth declined.
El órgano noticioso refirió que la colonia española de Santo Domingo jamás tuvo un carácter preponderantemente agrícola, atrayendo más bien a los primeros pobladores la explotación aurífera. A consecuencia de la desatención del cultivo, el desmayo industrial y la emigración de hombres activos hacia México, la colonia quedó aislada y estancada. En consecuencia, las clases encumbradas y acomodadas perdieron el empuje y la ambición, sumiéndose en la incuria intelectual y material al compás de la postración del campo y la pérdida de caudales.
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geneous and mixed than in other circumstances
and under other influences, it would have become
?effacing more or less the nice lines and shades
of distinction, both as respects color and social
position, of the different classes?it may not be
very difficult to uccount for, nor uninteresting to
btiefly investigate.
The Spanish colony of St. Domingo never was
an agricultural one. The mining of gold, and ntsl
agriculture, was the inducement?the object that
biouglit hither the early colonists and thougli the
exceeding fertility ol the soil allures botne to its
systematic cultivation, the great body of the land
has ever remained, from tin' period of the first discovety
to this day, in a state of primeval nature, or
under a kind and degree of cultivation that hardly
deserves that name. The colony, thus isolating
itself by its lack of agricultural enterprise unc
industry?still more than its island position had
done, from the rest of the worjd, with its growing
commerce and activity?its intellectual life und
progress?when the supposed richer mineral regions
of Mexico attracted away a large portion ol
ilie jieculiar enterprise that existed, gradually
dwindled away. The higher nnd richer classes,
losing to a greater or less extent, the energy an-.l
ambition which the business and other intercourse
with the active world Stimulate and promote, sink
into a state of intellectual and physical sloth agriculture
became neglected, all industry stagnated,
and in a succession of years this class became
less wealthy as well as less elevated,
How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo
The New York herald. (1848). New York [N.Y.], 1848-07-16. US/DR Newspaper Timeline. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030313/1848-07-16/ed-1/?sp=1
ReferencesReferencias
Library of Congress, Chronicling America: The New York herald, 1848-07-16.
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