Mr. Schurz. I think by this time, however, the Senator from Indiana will be ready to admit that our United States vessels did interfere against the people of San Domingo.
Mr. Morton. Not as between Baez and his own people. There is no instruction of that kind that can be found.
Mr. Schurz. Well, now, before heaven and earth I declare if even this documentary evidence that I have read does not penetrate the brain of the Senator from Indiana, I despair of all human means of persuasion. If anything is clear here, it is not only that they were ordered to do so, but that they did actually do so, and I shall have a few more facts for the Senator:
Commander Green to the Secretary of the Navy, October 8, 1870,
Inclosing the Following Report from Commander Irwin
United States Steamer YANTIC,
Mark you, long after the treaty of annexation was rejected——
We left Kingston, August 26, and arrived at San Domingo, August 29.
August 30, President Baez . . . informed me that he had dismissed General Hungria, his minister of war, and had just received a note from the British consul informing him that General Hungria had sought an asylum at the British consulate. The note . . . was informal and non-committal . . . did not state whether he would afford General Hungria the protection of his flag. . . .
The President was anxious to add to the force at his disposal in the city of San Domingo, as he feared an outbreak, and asked me if I could not bring him some of his men that were at Azua; I acceded to his request . . . and on the 2d instant landed sixty-five officers and men that we had brought from Azua.
