CHAPTER XXIX
SANTO DOMINGO.
Although not strictly a Spanish possession, Santo
Domingo may be counted in, with the people already
enumerated in the West Indies. Its history is identical
with that of Hayti. Forming a part of the same Island,
and inhabited by blacks, mulattoes, and whites; and
being part of the battle-ground upon which the
negroes fought the French, in the revolution which
freed the Island from its former masters. Santo Domingo
has passed through all the scenes of blood and
desolation, only in a milder form, that their neighbors
of the other end of the Island have experienced.
Santo Domingo has been under Spanish, French, and
Haytian rule, and often a republic of her own, the
latter of which she now enjoys.
It was during the government of Boyer that the Spanish or Dominican part of the Island was united with the French part. In relation to this matter, gross misrepresentations have been made;—it has been urged in defence of the Dominican claim to an independent government, an independence based upon nullification, that they were beaten down, trampled
