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The Dominican Republic in the American Press: United States newspaper coverage of the island, gathered and translated for readers in both languagesLa República Dominicana en la prensa estadounidense: la cobertura de la isla en los periódicos de Estados Unidos, reunida y traducida para lectores en ambos idiomas
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Independence, 1844La independencia de 1844

1–32 ofde 32 · April 28, 184428 de abril de 1844 – April 18, 184618 de abril de 18461
April 28, 184428 de abril de 1844 · New York [N.Y.] · Independence, Recognition, and Samaná SchemesIndependencia, Reconocimiento y Proyectos de Samaná

Cape Haytien-Haiti.

Since I last had the pleasure, in the month of January, Haiti was reposing in the sweet sleep of confidence and tranquility, and we all looked forward to a season of renewed life and prosperity in her affairs. This was but a deceitful calm …

April 29, 184429 de abril de 1844 · New York [N.Y.] · Independence, Recognition, and Samaná SchemesIndependencia, Reconocimiento y Proyectos de Samaná

Cape Haytien—Haiti.

Affairs in the Haytien Empire—Negro Respect for a Flag of Truce—To al Overthrow of the Black Troops under Pierot, &c. When I last had this pleasure, in the month of January, Haiti was reposing in the sweet sleep of profound and honorable pe…

May 9, 18449 de mayo de 1844 · New York [N.Y.] · Independence, Recognition, and Samaná SchemesIndependencia, Reconocimiento y Proyectos de Samaná

FROM PORT AU PLATT—By the Hero, Boyd, arrived last night in eight days from Port au Platt, we learn that everything was tranquil in that place when she left. Business was entirely at a stand still. The other portions of the island were in a fine condition, but from want of attendance would fall short, on account of the planters being engaged in the revolution. The following is the capitulation between the French and Spaniards of Hayti:—

This day March 14th, 1844, the members of the Commission appointed by J. Beuchot, the moment the Haytien flag was lowered, to treat with the Junta of the Dominican republic, and the officers appointed by General Cadet Pierre, the following …

July 19, 184419 de julio de 1844 · Boston, Mass. · Independence, Recognition, and Samaná SchemesIndependencia, Reconocimiento y Proyectos de Samaná

Hayti

The Government of the 3d of May, at the head of which is General Philippe Guerrier, an old soldier of the first army, which, under Dessalines, achieved the independence of the country, has adopted moderate counsels, and evinces a most anxio…

August 2, 18442 de agosto de 1844 · Washington, D.C. · Independence, Recognition, and Samaná SchemesIndependencia, Reconocimiento y Proyectos de Samaná

FROM ST. DOMINGO.

A Dominican man-of-war schooner, belonging to General Santa Ana, called the Separacion, formerly the pilot boat Romp, arrived off here to-day, with letters from General Santa Ana to Gen. Villanueve, informing him that he, Santa Ana, had bee…

August 5, 18445 de agosto de 1844 · Washington City [D.C.] · Independence, Recognition, and Samaná SchemesIndependencia, Reconocimiento y Proyectos de Samaná

FROM HAYTI.

The United States ship Vandalia, Commander JOHN S. CHAUNCEY, arrived at Pensacola, on the 12th ultimo, last from Port au Prince, via Aux Cayes, which latter port she left on the 12th ultimo. Though the island of St. Domingo is in a very uns…

August 9, 18449 de agosto de 1844 · Washington City [D.C.] · Independence, Recognition, and Samaná SchemesIndependencia, Reconocimiento y Proyectos de Samaná

FROM OUR EUROPEAN CORRESPONDENT.

M. THIERS has brought up his Report from the Commission on the Deputies on the Education Bill as fashioned by the Peers. It is a grand tractate, which occupied nearly three hours in the reading, and requires seven or eight columns of the jo…

August 28, 184428 de agosto de 1844 · Washington City [D.C.] · Independence, Recognition, and Samaná SchemesIndependencia, Reconocimiento y Proyectos de Samaná

FROM ST. DOMINGO.

An arrival from Hayti at Philadelphia brings intelligence to the 9th instant. In political affairs all was quiet. The Constituent Assembly had been dissolved. The project of dividing the Island into States was abandoned, and the Government …

January 24, 184524 de enero de 1845 · Yazoo, Miss. · Independence, Recognition, and Samaná SchemesIndependencia, Reconocimiento y Proyectos de Samaná

The Yazoo City Whig

We see it stated that Commissioners have arrived at New York from the Dominican Republic, which has declared its independence of the Haytien Government, to solicit from the United States a recognition of its independence.…

May 2, 18452 de mayo de 1845 · Boston, Mass. · Independence, Recognition, and Samaná SchemesIndependencia, Reconocimiento y Proyectos de Samaná

From St. Domingo.

—We learn from Capt. Wilson of the brig Republic, just arrived from Port au Prince, that on the 12th of March the Haytien man of war Herard, in the schr. La Granada, had been seen off the South side of the Island, five miles off, by five gu…

October 15, 184515 de octubre de 1845 · Washington [D.C.] · Independence, Recognition, and Samaná SchemesIndependencia, Reconocimiento y Proyectos de Samaná

The daily union

We have received more recent accounts from the island of Hayti than the "Charleston Patriot" gives above. They are contained in the following extract of a letter received in Washington, from Cape Haytien, September 24: "The authorities of t…

November 12, 184512 de noviembre de 1845 · Providence [R.I.] · Independence, Recognition, and Samaná SchemesIndependencia, Reconocimiento y Proyectos de Samaná

Correspondence of the Journal of Commerce.

Advices which have been received here go to show that the Haytians are making another great contest with the Dominicans, and that they are becoming tired of it. Against the Haytians, the blacks were always powerful and successful, by the ai…

November 13, 184513 de noviembre de 1845 · Mobile, Ala. · Independence, Recognition, and Samaná SchemesIndependencia, Reconocimiento y Proyectos de Samaná

THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC.

Correspondence of the Journal of Commerce. THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. — This the Republic of the larger part of the Island of Hayti, the recognition of its de facto government, no one can doubt who will take the trouble to look into the case w…

November 28, 184528 de noviembre de 1845 · New-York [N.Y.] · Independence, Recognition, and Samaná SchemesIndependencia, Reconocimiento y Proyectos de Samaná

St. Domingo.

Correspondence of the Tribune. WASHINGTON, Nov. 20, 1845. The comments which I thought it my duty to make on the proposed Annexation of this delightful island to the United States, seem to have attracted some general attention. As the subje…

December 29, 184529 de diciembre de 1845 · [Portsmouth, Va.] · Independence, Recognition, and Samaná SchemesIndependencia, Reconocimiento y Proyectos de Samaná

THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

Few of our readers are aware that a new Republic has been formed under this name in the island of St. Domingo. Yet such is the fact. Within two years past a revolution has been made, and successfully maintained against the negro government …

December 29, 184529 de diciembre de 1845 · New York [N.Y.] · Independence, Recognition, and Samaná SchemesIndependencia, Reconocimiento y Proyectos de Samaná

Important News from St. Domingo—Progress of General Annexation.

The news which we have received here, during the last two days, by two vessels from different ports of the Island of San Domingo, or Hayti, in the West Indies, and which will be found in this day's paper, is of the highest importance to thi…

December 29, 184529 de diciembre de 1845 · New York [N.Y.] · Independence, Recognition, and Samaná SchemesIndependencia, Reconocimiento y Proyectos de Samaná

Highly Important from Hayti.

The barque Hecia, Capt. Hoyt, from Port au Prince, arrived here on Saturday, from Port au Plata, with advices from each place to the 6th inst., have arrived in the last two days. The intelligence received by them from our correspondents at …

December 29, 184529 de diciembre de 1845 · New York [N.Y.] · Independence, Recognition, and Samaná SchemesIndependencia, Reconocimiento y Proyectos de Samaná

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 par…

December 31, 184531 de diciembre de 1845 · New-York [N.Y.] · Independence, Recognition, and Samaná SchemesIndependencia, Reconocimiento y Proyectos de Samaná

The Dominicans and the Haytians.

We have received from a friend in Washington two back Reports, relative to Mr. Hogan's Mission to the storied Island of St. Domingo. The Dominicans have applied to our Government for their Republic to be recognized as an Independent Nation.…

December 31, 184531 de diciembre de 1845 · Alexandria, D.C. · Independence, Recognition, and Samaná SchemesIndependencia, Reconocimiento y Proyectos de Samaná

MISSION TO ST. DOMINGO.

The late mission of the Hon. John Hogan, of Illinois, to the Island of St. Domingo, has been made the subject of comment in the public journals. Mr. Hogan is now here, and has made, or is about to make his report, on the subject of his miss…

January 3, 18463 de enero de 1846 · New-York [N.Y.] · Independence, Recognition, and Samaná SchemesIndependencia, Reconocimiento y Proyectos de Samaná

From the Boston Journal.

MR. SLICER—Since the return of Mr. Hogan from his secret mission to St. Domingo, a strong disposition has been manifested to learn the result of his researches. The Washington correspondents of several northern papers, particularly of New-H…

January 3, 18463 de enero de 1846 · New York [N.Y.] · Independence, Recognition, and Samaná SchemesIndependencia, Reconocimiento y Proyectos de Samaná

The Effect of the News from Hayti—Movements of Calhoun and Pakenham—The Position of the Former—What will be done?

Your number of yesterday, which arrived here this morning, containing the important news from your correspondents in Hayti and St. Domingo, fell like a bomb shell among all the politicians, from the Capitol to the White House, and throughou…

January 9, 18469 de enero de 1846 · Boston, Mass. · Independence, Recognition, and Samaná SchemesIndependencia, Reconocimiento y Proyectos de Samaná

IMPORTANT NEWS FROM ST. DOMINGO—PROGRESS OF GENERAL ANNEXATION.

In further proof of the existence of this frightful conspiracy against the freedom and independence of Hayti, read, mark and inwardly digest the extraordinary contents of the following articles from the New-York Herald— IMPORTANT NEWS FROM …

January 9, 18469 de enero de 1846 · Boston, Mass. · Independence, Recognition, and Samaná SchemesIndependencia, Reconocimiento y Proyectos de Samaná

CONSPIRACY AGAINST HAYTI.

There cannot be a doubt that, flushed with their success in the seizure and annexation of Texas, the southern slaveholding banditti are conspiring for the dismemberment of the Haytian republic in the first instance, and its subsequent absor…

January 10, 184610 de enero de 1846 · Monticello, Miss. · Independence, Recognition, and Samaná SchemesIndependencia, Reconocimiento y Proyectos de Samaná

From St. Domingo.

There has been an arrival at New York from St. Domingo, bringing dates to the 22d November. A battle is reported to have taken place on the 27th of October, between the Dominican and Haytien armies. It commenced by attacking a fort, which t…

January 16, 184616 de enero de 1846 · New-Lisbon, Ohio · Independence, Recognition, and Samaná SchemesIndependencia, Reconocimiento y Proyectos de Samaná

EFFECTS OF THE NEWS FROM HAYTI.

Your number of yesterday, which arrived here this morning, containing the important news from your correspondents in Hayti and St. Domingo, fell like a bomb shell among all the politicians, from the Capitol to the White House, and throughou…

January 16, 184616 de enero de 1846 · Boston, Mass. · Independence, Recognition, and Samaná SchemesIndependencia, Reconocimiento y Proyectos de Samaná

From the Pennsylvania Freeman. HAYTI.

The cupidity of our slaveholding democracy, fattened on Texas, is already active to accomplish the acquisition of Cuba. Having at last in their hands, the 'valley of rascals,' an empty world, they burn to make the most of their opportunitie…

January 16, 184616 de enero de 1846 · Boston, Mass. · Independence, Recognition, and Samaná SchemesIndependencia, Reconocimiento y Proyectos de Samaná

HAYTI.

From the Boston Journal. HAYTI. MR. SLEEPER—Since the return of Mr. Hogan from his secret mission to St. Domingo, a strong disposition has been manifested to learn the real state of Hayti. The Washington correspondents of several northern j…

February 13, 184613 de febrero de 1846 · Boston, Mass. · Independence, Recognition, and Samaná SchemesIndependencia, Reconocimiento y Proyectos de Samaná

CONSEQUENCES OF RUNNING AWAY!

The New-York Express, edited by James Brooks, (formerly of Maine,) is one of the dirtiest, meanest and most villainous papers published in the nation. As a specimen of its villainous spirit, the following comments on the last letter publish…

March 20, 184620 de marzo de 1846 · Charleston, S.C. · Independence, Recognition, and Samaná SchemesIndependencia, Reconocimiento y Proyectos de Samaná

Southern Christian advocate

Here we have accounts from St. Domingo, the city, to the 10th of February. The Dominicans were expecting the attack of the Haytiens, with good courage and preparations. There was a report current that Acaau had been playing again. It was be…

March 25, 184625 de marzo de 1846 · New York [N.Y.] · Independence, Recognition, and Samaná SchemesIndependencia, Reconocimiento y Proyectos de Samaná

FROM HAYTI.

The day before the Bridgewater sailed, news arrived at Cape Haytien that the people of St. Mark's and Port-au-Prince had revolted against President Perriot, and had refused to march against the Spanish part of the island; and that they had …

April 18, 184618 de abril de 1846 · New York [N.Y.] · Independence, Recognition, and Samaná SchemesIndependencia, Reconocimiento y Proyectos de Samaná

Affairs in Mexico and Texas.

(From the New Orleans Bulletin, April 9.) The news from the city of Mexico is to the 21st of March. It is of no importance. The only thing of interest is the arrival at the city of Mexico of a messenger from his excellency the general in ch…

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