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Show THE SAN DOMINOO COMMISSION, COMMIS-SION, j The account! received by telegraph of t lie doing and opinions of the San iNmingo Coinmis-iorier have been very ro'enio-hued, arid !fro ealci'ta'.-d t'Mrale an iinpreH-ion that everything i-i lovely ifi lliat proposed annexation l'i the I'liilcl Slale.". The climate it reported de'ieion.", lb' vinniry ini-loeri-ely rich in nnhiral resourcM and prod":! ioiH, n nd the people mild man jerei and ineekly uriiioiu to bo con nected with this great Republic. But j our eastern exchauges present the condition con-dition of matters in two aspects. One the samo as that telegraphed; the other not by any means so attractive. This .latter represents the climate as being enervating and of u fatal to whites residing re-siding there. The resources of the country are considered nothing superior to those of other West India Islands; and the difficulties in the way of developing de-veloping them are serious. The people are represented as accustomed to almost al-most a chronic state of revolution, and it is held that annexation to the United States, while it might benefit i hem, would not be worth anything like what it would cost to this country. Little do.ubt is expressed as to what the report of the Commissioners will be. Tbose averse to annexation hold that they went to the Island with their minds made up for annexation ; and that their report will simply embrace all the arguments they can advance, as a result of the expedition, in favor of the scheme. . This may be doing them an injustice, but tliereports that have been forwarded by the newspapers news-papers correspondents with them, said to hold similar views, give' at least a color of correctness to the statement. In the meantime the friends and opponents-of .the measure "are already calculating chances ; and Senators are reported to express themselves freely on the course they will take. That the annexation of San Domingo wiil meet strong opposition in Congress is beyond doubt, and whether it can be carried through is an open question. The doctrine of territorial expansion is a very sound one under some circumstances, cir-cumstances, but that expansion should be of a character to benefit the nation making it; and that is the very question ques-tion under discussion in this proposed annexation scheme. Yet, as we have the ice-bergs and Indians of Alaska, probably it would be as well to have a counterpois in the burning suns and dusky children of San Domingo. |