Alto Velo Claim

Alto Velo Claim

The Alto Velo Claim was a flimsy claim against the Dominican Government by American adventurers ejected on the eve of the unsuccessful Spanish reoccupation (1861-1865) of the guano island by that name located some fifteen miles south of the Dominican Republic. It has both a sinister and an auspicious significance in United States political history because former Secretary of State Jeremiah S. Black resigned as defending counsel in the impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson in 1868 when the latter would not order Secretary of State William H. Seward to approve the claim.

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*Dictionary of American History by James Truslow Adams, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940


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