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meeting and the reading because he said, it would aid him in the pas- sage of the Treaty by the Assembly, and all who were there present did vote for the ratification which took place three days afterwards. I now send the document as originally written merely for the purpose of let- ting my government know the views that I had on this Subject and also to prevent its being hereafter misrepresented and how well I had read their thoughts and intentions of this government in the midst of the darkness in which they wished-and thought-to have involved me [unfinished] I requested Mr. Debrin, my Secretary, to write an explanitory Note in relation to my. Letter to Juarez on the subject of the Cass-Irizarri Treaty-he penned the above hasty lines, but never finished them- :M:. B. LAMAR- It will be seen that he wrote in my person [Endorsed:] Letter By Mr Debrin relating to my Letter to Juarez on the Cass Irizarri Treaty Managua No. 2677. AUG F' KINT DE ROODENBECK TO LAMAR [Translation from the Spanish] Puntarenas September 18, 1858. ESTEEMED SIR AND l<'RIEND, I have regretted much that we did not see each other before I left San Jose. You had made me hope that I should see you the morning of the 16th. Likewise, you had made me hope for a few words of rec- ommendation for the Captain of the Columbus.- Doubtless you know that you have in me a true friend and that you can hold this idea in Guatemala as well as in any other part of the world. But I think that friendship is like love in that it should be mutual in order to produce happy results. Take this idea simply as the manifestation of my desire that our friendship may not be only for a day, but for life. I hope that you will have made satisfactory arrangements with the President of Costa-Rica. Since entering freely into the discussion of a difficulty, one can do no less than to settle it to the interest of both parties. I have had a real joy in hearing in our conference with the President and the Secretary of Foreign Affairs the expression of your sentiments, worthy of the representative of a powerful nation which knows that it can neither be nor remain great except by being just. It shall please me very much to receive news of you in Guatemala. Tell me if you arrange definitely with the Government of Costa-Rica, as it has been understood, during the mediation which you undertook with so much pleasure. I remain as always your most affectionate friend and attentive Servant Auo. F' KINT DE RooDENBECK To His Excellency Mirabeau B. Lamar, Minister Resident, etc, etc, at San Jose, Costa Rica. No. 2680. OLAUDIO CURBELO TO LAMAR
San Juan- Sept 1858
Genl LAMAR DEAR Srn
I regret very much not being able to see you when you took the trouble to pay San Juan a visit.- But I find by the note Mr Priest gave me,
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