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Pedro Cardenal- Doctor Figuora Pablo Cha_morro Anselmo Rivas- [Endorsed : J The Names of those Who Voted for an Agnist I sic 7 the Belly Contract . No. 2715. NOTES UPON NICARAGUAN HISTORY. LA1\1:AR [Fragment J [1858 ?"j The Revolution. Fruto Chomoro, was elected President for two years under the Con- stitution then existing, and was installed iu 1850. · In passing from Managua and Granada to Leon, I feel on arriving at at [ sic J this latter place, like a traveller who, after having long been embogged and benighted, in almost bottomless cuagmir.e with not other lights than ignus fatuous to guide him, has just ascended to an elevated plain where he can inhale a healthy atmosphere, and behold in the broad light of day the surrounding objects as they really exist.- No. 2718. NOTES ON INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS. LAM:AR [Fragment] [Managua? Nicaragua, 1858 ?l It would not only manifest a disrespect and want of friendship towards the interested nations, but such a decided contempt of their necessities and welfare, as to engender, a reciprocal spirit in ~hem; and Recrim- ination and retaliation would as a matter of course would be [the] consequence.- It would not only manifest a disrespect and want of friendship towards the nations interested, but such a decided contempt of their necessities and Welfare, as to engender in them a similar spirit; and recrimination and retaliation, as ·a matter of course would be the consequence.- There can be no peace there is no reciprocal confidence and friendship. }futual desire for mutual good is the only basis of harmonious rela- tions, and solid foundation of prosperity.- Let Nicaragua ponder this; and she will comprehend at once the social responsibilities which civilization imposes, and the danger of disregarding them. The .Servant in the parable was deprived of his talents because he hurried them, when he should ,have used them.
No. 2721. LAMAR TO JOSEFA ANA :MENDOZA
[San Jose, Costa Rica? 1858 ?1
[Translation from the Spanisl1] 35 To Senorita JOSEFA ANA MENDOZA. 1\h DEAR FRIEND,
Be pleased to accept the following lines in compliance with the promise which I made of writing you a poem. 36 They are not worthy "Translated by :Miss Katherine Elliott, archivist, Texas State Library, 191,8- 1925. ''"'The Daughter of Mendoza"?
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