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PAPERS OF MIRABEAU BuoNAPARTE LA11rAR
the 22d. inst. I sent you some things by a Negro by the name of Walk who goes to Nicaragua, He had not taken them when I left but I supose is at Granada ere this 1 Box Brandy i Gin Claret tin Crackers 1 Bl ale- Hoping to visit you soon I am as most truly your friend H. L. KINNEY did you write to Washington about the Greytown appointmt. I want that Rascal away from there No. 2628. COMMENT UPON THE PRESIDENTIAL PROCLA- 1\fATION OF MAY 15. SOME COSTA RICANS [Translation from the Spanish. Printed] THE INHABITANTS OF COSTA RICA To explain the proclamation which our President saw fit to issue on the 15th of this month, we unanimously state: that after having care- fully considered the insolent proclamation of him who even imagines himself our sovereign, on having taken account of the threats and im- postures which it contains, and being satisfied that it has had no other tendency than that of deceiving those who may read it in a foreign country, we have determined to correct the errors which it contains, not only to make them known outside the country but also to dissuade our tyrant from persisting in perpetuating this satanic administration in our Republic. Senor ]\fora, in his proclamation pretends that for his dearly beloved country of Costarica, he determined to make a trip to Nicaragua, for the purpose of seeing how he could settle the boundary question, a question which arose between the two sister republics some time back. Without at present investigating how our President understands the sisterhood, we will only point out that this is a false imputation, since his trip (according to his message to Congress) had no other object than that of exhibiting his execrable person in the other republics of Central America, whither he went, shielded as he was by his conceit and believing perhaps, that he would stand for something in them, and that it would be easy for him to deceive their inhabitants, in imitation of Soulouque to proclaim himself Emperor of Central America, just as the latter is of Haiti. With such hopes he left this city on the 17th of last April with a large retinue, the complement, no doubt, of the great caravan which arrived on the 22d of the same month at San Juan del Sur (in Nic- aragua). Going from there to Rivas, where our President made the exchange of treaties already celebrated with Nicaragua which had put an encl to the conflict sought by himself, attempting to appropriate for himself the line of transit which he had so often dreamed of realiz- ing on his own account in order to guard it better, in case other fili- busters should want to usurp it for Nicaragua- All of which proves the falsity of the pretext of his trip. Now our President says in his proclamation that a few cliscontended people taking advantage of an anonymity divulge a thousand pretexts to take away the virtue of his noble acts. He likewise pretends that he does not wish any of our gratit_ucle, satisfying himself with finding it in the depths of his own conscience, by his own praises and with reserving to himself, as he says,
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