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On answering Your Excellency's letter I offer my most sincere thanks for your generous sentiments towards my fellow-citizens and towards me, and I assure Your Excellency that during the entire period of your separation [mutilated] that we have before us such beau- tiful plans for the relations between our countries, and that our sym- pathies are rapidly cementing themselves into a durable friendship. Your Excellency's farewell causes me profound sorrow. If the quali- ties which adorn Your Excellency have contributed so greatly to the happy solution which we expected of questions that exist between our countries, who better than Your Excellency will be able to cultivate the friendship and good feeling with which we should expect our efforts to be crowned. Since Your Excellency must leave us, permit me to assure you that I bring with me the sympathies of the people and government of my country as well as my own and other wishes for your happiness; and at whatever time or in whatever place Your Excellency may be found, you can count on the fact that you have a home at my house where there will be friendship and you will be received with open arms, among those whom you have the pleasure and honor of counting are . · [illegible l No. 2747. HILARIO OLIVAS TO LAMAR Translation Letter from Genl Hilario Olivas to Genl. Lamar D. V. L- Leon March 28th. 1859 Mr Minister LAMAR. The Military Governor of this Department offers to Your Excel- lency his respects, and in the name of the inhabitants of this City recognizes the good intentions of Your Excellency, and and [sic] effec- tionate sentiments towards Nicaragua. Upon absenting yourself I wish Your Excellency a happy voyage; and hope that your Excellency may return to the Country and be a Nicaraguense among the many that esteem you. I am Sir your Obt Servt HILARIO OLIVAS.
No. 2748. GREGORIO JUAREZ TO LAMAR.
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[Translation from the Spanish]
Leon March 28, 1859.
Hon. GENERAL MIRABEAU B. LAMAR. MY DEAR Sm:
I regret much that Your Excellency intends leaving this Republic. I regret it personally because I shall lose the society of a person with whom I have passed many agreeable moments; and I regret it likewise for the sake of my country because it also loses in Your Excellency a true friend, whose wisdom, moderation and love of justice, have con- tributed greatly to healing the wounded sensibilities of our people caused by sorrowful events of the past. When I had the honor of occupying myself with the business of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, although we had to discuss some dis- agreeable questions, our relations were conducted in a spirit of frank-
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