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loss 0£ my faithful companions, I took charge 0£ the supreme com- mand in the moment 0£ greatest conflict and when almost all were abandoning we [were] attacked by the plague or overcome by the un- fortunate situation 0£ the country. The very worthy Vice-President Don Francisco Maria Oreamuno succumbed then to the violent illness. Surrounded by some faithful servants 0£ the State I have labored with firmness in the internal and external affairs 0£ the Republic, and still struggling with a thousand obstacles and scarcity 0£ men and resources, I have endeavored to diminish the evils which were weighing upon the people and to alleviate their sufferings.- God has permitted such sad afiliction. Let us submit ourselves to his judgment and let us make ourselves worthy 0£ better fortune. The cholera at last disappeared. Today society is reviving: the harsh grief caused by the misfortunes inherent to war, and even much more to the fatal epidemic, are diminishing: and although we must deplore the misconduct 0£ some few citizens .who conspired against the legal order and the tranquillity of the Republic in such distressing days, we should give thanks to Providence that it has saved us at a time from the horrors of the pestilence and from the bitterness of anarchy. Everything is again taking on a flattering aspect: confidence is reborn : the movement is generalized: our flowery fields appear as never before covered with beautiful growing crops and plantations which announce valuable harvests: the empresarios, countrymen, and artisans return to their labors and speculations: everything recovers action and life. With faith and perseverance, with union and industry, little, very little is lacking in order that, save £or the irreparable individual losses which the cholera has caused us, the picture which our country presents may be as pleasing and prosperous as at the end 0£ the year 1855. Soon the valiant soldiers 0£ the country will be paid in foll. The diminished income is again increasing to its former amount; with it we shall meet the obligations contracted in consequence 0£ the war and the epidemic, and the most urgent necessities 0£ the Country. With economy, probity and patriotism, everything will again enter upon the beneficent march :which we were following and even the horizon 0£ Central-America, it seems, is clearing away, thanks to the determined and independent attitude taken by the £usionist Government of Nica- ragua, and the movement 0£ our brothers and allies against the fili- busters. A treaty 0£ limits, commerce, navigation and friendship has been agreed upon in this city between Costa-rica and New Granada: it cuts off forever the vexatious question which the two Republics were sus- taining and establishes the bases 0£ an alliance which may be fruitful in great results, not only for both peoples, but £or all the Spanish- Americans. Our relations with the other states 0£ Central America are more and more intimate: as they should be among kindred peoples. The policy 0£ seclusion and indecision is not now sustainable among us. On the existence 0£ one State depends that 0£ the rest. We should all then interest ourselves and share our reverses and our prosperity.- The blow which sacrifices one will wound all.- Isolation would be a wild aberration: inaction a crime: disunion the inevitable suicide 0£ our weak nationalities.- Indispensable it is that a family pact unite us
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