An Abstract of a Memoir delivered to the Secretary of State of the United States, by the political Agent of the Dominican Republic, at Washington, in the summer of 1845.

To the Hon. John C. Calhoun, Secretary of State of the United States.

1. An addenda to his note of the 8th inst. to show that the union of the Spanish part, in 1822, with Hayti, was not voluntarily, but forcibly produced.

2. The Spanish part of the Island remained under the government of Spain until the 30th Nov. 1821, on the night of which Dr. Jose Nunez de Caceres, Lieutenant Governor, raised the standard of independence in St. Domingo.

3. A few days afterwards, Brigadier General Don Pasqual Real, together with his officers, embarked for Spain, Porto Rico and Cuba.

4. The inhabitants of Spanish Hayti, perceiving soon that the republic of Hayti, contributed to restrain and even check the progress of a people far superior to those occupying the French part. The political change had not been brought about by them; because, in fact, the popular mind was not made up on the question; and in a few days after, national independence was proclaimed in several towns on the north side, which was fomented by European Spaniards, assisted by the inhabitants, starting at the same time from St. Raphael, Monte Cristi and Santiago, and entering into relations with the Spanish authorities.

5. The President, Nunez, in December, communicated to President Boyer certain ideas of the people, and made overtures to him for a treaty of alliance, offensive and defensive, and for commercial and other relations; to which the latter replied, that he would never tolerate, in the newly styled Republic of Hayti, the government of Dr. Nunez, in 1822, political chief of the Spanish part, and the other authorities, and that he meant to hoist the Haytian flag, with threats in case of refusal.

6. The Spanish part appealed to France, after all her hopes had been disappointed, and caused the utmost consternation in the public mind.

7. In this state of things all the civil and military authorities, being convinced of their inability to resist the Haytian army, which was then on the frontier, and being hesitant to submit to the unpropitious union, thus forced upon them, the Haytian flag was hoisted, and President Boyer made his entrance into St. Domingo, on the 12th of February, 1822, at the head of 12,000 men, without resistance.

8. On the following day he caused his constitution to be proclaimed, which had existed since 1816, for the French part only. By that constitution, and by the laws which followed, the laws and customs of a people different in character and customs from those of the Spaniards, were forced upon the inhabitants of the Spanish part, as shown by posterior acts, and by the general spirit of the people, which was always to separate and expel the Haytians forever from the Dominican territory.

9. The Haytians, from the first moment of their entry, took possession of the property of the Spanish part; that they have always been the masters of the soil; that they have destroyed the property of the inhabitants of the territory, to which they are accustomed from their infancy; and that this state of things has been the constant cause of opposition to throw off the yoke of the Haytians, and in the end, the inhabitants of the Spanish part, with the same resolution, and displayed the same spirit and desire to recover their independence, as they did in the certain numbers of this class.