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in good health & spirits. I hope some day to have him over here with me. With best wishes for your health & commending my friend to you Believe me Yours faithfully C. G. BAYLOR.
No. 2665. JOHN DESHON TO LAMAR
Leon Augt 22d 1858 .
Hon Gen M B LAMAR Managua My DEAR GENERAL
By the bearer Mariano Chavis r send you .the package of correspond- ence recd yesterday pr Steamer. I have 31greed you should pay the bearer five Dollars for his trip & that he shall stay in Managua five days in order to bring back your correspondence. should you detain him longer than the five days you will pay him two rials pr day, & you will also have to furnish him with his food while detained in Managua On receipt of your letter the other day I made enquiries for your Seal, but it could not be found Mercede thinks it could not have been left in her house I think I heard you say you never read the Herald, but I would call your attention to the declaration made by Mr Augustin Bernard, & pub- lished in the NY Herald of the 5th of July · I am yours truly JOHN J. DESHON f Addressed:] Hon General M B Lamar Minister Residente de los E Un in Nicaragua Managua No. 2667. JOSE DEBRIN'S DRAFT OF LAMAR'S LETTER TO STATE DEPARTMENT [Managua, August 26? 18581 The following letter has been principally intended to persuade the ad- vantages which Nacaragua would necessarily draw from the Cass Irri- sarri Treaty. None of the statements brings with it any menace or threat, although very often it presents the evil results which in my opinion would be an inevitable consequence of the rejection of the friendship of the United States and of their protection of the transit route. The letter was written in moments of great excitement in the minds of the leaders of this country; excitement, which I had no doubt was principally caused by the insidious influence of foreign intermedlers: a great part of the arguments Although I could not get positive evi- dence of the details and individual proceedings of Such an interference yet I knew it existed-and hence the greatest part of the letter is di- rected to destroy the action of those wrong influences: Feeling, how- ever, after having written it that it was not a suitable document for official correspondence I read such portions of it to Minister Gregorio · Juarez, as I thought might produce a good effect on his mind: and at his request the same were read to some of the members of the Legis- lature chosen and assembled by said Senor Juarez, who proposed the
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