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PAPERS OF I\lrnABEAU BuoNAPARTE LAMAR
No. 2644. ,JOSE DEBRIN TO LAMAR
General MIRABEAU B. LAMAR DEAR Srn AND RESPECTED Gon-FATHER I did not know that you were leaving so early in the morning. I am sorry not to have seen you before you left. You may write . to me whatever you wish me to do for you I will do it very very willingly. . I would like that you would pay a visit in my name to the Vicar Reverend Rafael Jerez. He is a very intelligent, amiable, and respect- able person. You will be greatly pleased with him. I suppose you are living at the house of Mrs. Juarez. I have no doubt she and M:r Juarez will make agreeable to you your staying at Leon. Please tell Mr Juarez that I have written to him a letter through Mr Dolores Bermudez enclosing another for Vicar Jerez with a medal for the said Reverend- Dont forget to send me your orders. I will write and do for you whatever you may order me. .Try to be gay-and happy in Leon Mrs. Debrin wishes you to come here very Soon and is ready to talk· with you in Spanish and to pet you as a god-daughter. Good bye my dear general I am always with true affection and pro- found re1;pect Your devoted Servant [Managua,] 17. July. (1858] J. DEBRIN M:y respects to Schlesinger and Fitzgerald
No. 2650. GREGORIO JUAREZ TO LAMAR
[Translation from the Spanish] General MIRABEAU B. LAMAR, Srn:
Leon, July 26, 1858.
I think that you must have seen in the New York Herald a diplo- matic document signed by Presidents Mora and J\Iartinez in the City of Rivas, addressed to the Governments of France and England, and in which document they refer to statements relative to Your Excellency which are very alarming for Central America. I can and should as- sure Your Excellencv that SMtores Martinez and Mora were informed of the truth of tho~e statements; that they were opposed to giving them credit, and that they only considered them of importance after they were commanded to secure facts and to prove them; but in spite of this the official conduct of Your Excellency with regard to the laws of neutrality of the United States and the Independence of Nicaragua gives the lie to those reports. Although this explanation is not directed to your Excellency in any official character, I feel obliged to prove it in my character of citizen of Nicaragua and because I was serving the Government in the office of Foreign Affairs at that time. To illustrate: the wisdom and experience of Your Excellency can-
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