... burning and plundered cities, present senoes of the moot romantic contrast. To-day bleeding and naked on a sand island in the Caribbean Sea-to-morrow sees them in cloth of gold, beheading, with theirown beides, the trembling grandees of Panama or Maracaibo ...

... let us examine the meanilg of these conditions:- The island of St. Domingo covers the free passage of our , trade by the Caribbean Sea and the Isthmus of Darien, as I Cuba covers the Gulf of Mexico and the use of the Tehuan- v tepee transit. It is a cardinal ...