In 1861 Anson Burlingame, a citizen of the United States and a resident of Massachusetts, was sent as Minister of the United States to China.
The Burlingame
Treaty with China.
At the moment of General Grant's accession to the presidency there was civil commotion in the Dominican Republic. Buenaventura Baez was the
The attempt to annex
the Dominican Republic
to the United States.
In July of 1869, President Grant sent General Orville E. Babcock to Santo Domingo with written instructions from the Secretary of State, Mr. Fish, to inquire into the political situation there and into the value and resources of the country. Babcock, terming himself aide-de-camp to the President of the United States, succeeded somehow
The Treaty.
On the 10th of January, 1870, President Grant sent this proposed Treaty to the Senate for ratification. He must have thought that there would