PAPERS oF MIRABEAU BuoNAPARTE LAMAR 381 should be ratified or not. But as your Excellency ·has frequently ex- pressed fears that the act of rejecting the treaty might produce a bad effect in the United States and prevent that harmony which your Excellency wished to promote, this has doubtless been what some have interpreted as the ultimatum mentioned in the document to which your Excellency has referred. With the sincerest hopes that Your Excellency may be satisfied re- garding Seiiores Martinez and Mora of whose integrity I would have the great honor of being a guarantor, were not my personal condition so humble, I beg you again to accept the esteem and respect which has always been paid your Excellency by your friend and affectionate servant. G. JUAREZ [Rubricl No. 2652. GREGORIO JUAREZ TO LAMAR [Translation from the Spanish] [Leon? Nicaragua, July 27? 1858] [In Lamar's hand:] This note is from Juarez. FRIEND: I think it would be proper for you to write me confidentially a letter similar to the one which you thought of writing to the government; and if there is no objection, it would be better if it were the same one. I am very much moved by the eloquent and sublime man:ner in which you express your ideas, and I should like my friends to know you through your writings, since we do not have the good fortune to under- stand }IOUr words in a different language. fJUAREZl No. 2653. PATRICIO RIVAS TO LAMAR [Translation from the Spanish] Leon, Nicaragua, July 31./1858. Sm The London Times, the New York Herald, the Panama Star & Herald and other newspapers which have come up today have pub- lished the manifesto which under date of the 1st of last May were signed in the City of Rivas by the Presidents of Nicaragua and Costa rica, D. Tomas Martinez and D. Juan Rafael Mora; and, as on trans- lating said document into English, the error was committed of putting my signature to it, confusing my Name Rivas with the name of the City Rivas, I find myself obliged to correct such mistake, declaring to you that I had not signed it, nor did I have any intention to sign such a document which contains considerations so grave. In acknowledgment of the honor and respect which the Government of the United States and its worthy Minister in Nicaragua have shown to me I think it proper to address the present communication to you, taking advantage of the opportunity to offer to you the assurances of my special esteem and to subscribe myself Your very obedient Servant . PATRICIO RfvAs [Rubric] Ex-President of Nicaragua [Endorsed:] Letter From Patricio Rivas Ex. President of Nicaragua •
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