Note 443 — The Struggle for the Recognition of Haiti and Liberia as Independent Republics
Reading edition
Ibid., p. 21. In 1844, San Domingo seceded and became the Dominican Republic. Frequent quarrels ensued between the two parts of the Island. Therefore the reason for this suggestion for interference. Cf. "San Domingo and the United States," John Bassett Moore, Review of Reviews, March, 1905, p. 298.