THE REVOLUTION IN ST. DOMINGO.
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—A private letter, dated Porto Plata, July 20th, which is published in the Turks Island Standard of August 1st, gives the principal cause of the revolution which has recently broken out in the Dominican republic as an attempt made by the government to alter the present rate of exchange or to depreciate the value of the paper currency of the country some twenty per cent. Another rumor was to the effect that the authorities of the city of St. Domingo have been drawing upon the resources of the provinces, and appropriating them without allowing a reasonable proportion to be spent in improvement and for other purposes of a local nature. Other causes are also assigned. The manifesto of the revolutionists is very nicely copied after our own Declaration of Independence, stating the preliminary dogmas about the uses of government, the reserved rights of the governed, &c., precisely in the same style, and giving that body failures as a succession of devouring and rapacious administrations which have oppressed the republic and despoiled the people of property and happiness. The rebels charge that the paper currency has been, time and again, has been nothing but the means of giving improper aid and support to despotism and plunder. They allege financial distresses, destruction of personal liberty, the arbitrary arrest of citizens, tyrannical judgments, the destruction of the liberty of the press, and of the nation, and the dissolution of the national representative bodies by insidious and artful intrigues.
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The Revolution in St. Domingo.—A pri
vate letter, dated Porto Plata, July 20th, which is
published in the Turks Island Standard of August
Ist gives the principal cause of the revolution which
has recently broken out in the Dominican republic
as an attempt made by the government to alter the
present rate of exchange or to depreciate the value
of the paper currency of the country some twenty
per cent. But another rumor was to the effect that
the authorities of the city of St. Domingo have been
drawing upon the resources of the provinces, and
appropriating them without allowing a reasonable
proportion to be spent in improvement and for
Other purposes of a local nature. Other causes are
also assigned. The manifesto of the revolutionists
is very nicely copied after our own Declaration of
Independence, stating the preliminary dogmas
about the uses of government, the reserved rights
of the governed, &c., precisely in the same style,
and .then going on to complain of a succession of de
vouring and rapacious administrations which have
oppressed the republic and despoiled the people of
prosperity and happiness. The rebels charge that
the constitutions ol the years 1844 and 1854 have
been nothing but the means of giving strength,
aid and support to despotism and plunder. They
allege repeated violation of personal liberty, the
arbitary arrest of citizens, tyranical judgements, the
destruction of the liberty of the press, and of the na
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New-York dispatch. (1857). New York [N.Y.], 1857-08-23. US/DR Newspaper Timeline. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030364/1857-08-23/ed-1/?sp=2
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Library of Congress, Chronicling America: New-York dispatch, 1857-08-23.
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