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you are making on the people of Nicaragua Mr Debrin's note was very acceptable as it gave us an item or two about your popular manners to add to the correspondence of the "States'' You will see Mr. Debrin's exact words in the letters dated Managua - although the political in- formation came from other parts of the republic This unkind and repulsive conduct to foreigners is is [sic] stirring up a strong public sentiment against Nicaragua and she can only avert :filibuster demonstrations by permitting peaceful and well disposed foreigners to come in and settle. I hope you will visit the beautiful island of Ometipee and obtain permission for a few families to settle in the country either on that island or wherever you settle. If you obtain a concession for half a dozen or twenty families to settle around you, we should be able to form a prosperous, self-protecting com- munity at easy terms. If you and Mr. Debrin would make a contract for the vacant (or government) lands on Ometipee on easy terms, for the settlement of say ten Catholic families we would meet the conditions of the bar- gain and fit up up an orang [sic] grove for Miss Lola if you happen to know a little fairy of that name who would like a lovely place to be her own forever The fact is General the administration has lost the army bill through the defection of southern democrats who will not stand by it unless it assumes a very firm policy in Nicaragua and the Yrisarri treaty is in danger from this and its delay in coming and for one I hope it will not come at all. This state of feeling can only be softened away by the wise and friendly action of Nicaragua herself. She ought to see that a large portion of our people are anti-filibuster and that class she ought to invite in to develope her resources & defend her soil from the invasions of the more lawless class of their own countrymen. Her only or at least her best chance is to encourage friendly & peace- ful cultivators, like your family and mine, to come in and plant coffee groves and build houses which we will take care to defend from the grasp of :filibusters Dtrect to General W. L. Cazneau New York P. Office from whence they will be forwarded to him wherever he may be. We will write.> every steamer for ·we feel the liveliest interest in your mission and in the welfare of that interesting country. With our best regards to Mr. Debrin
Very sincerely Yours [Endorsed]
[Addressed] Genl. l\L B. Lamar Nicaragua.
This letter i~ :from Mrs. Cazneau..
No. 2612
1858 Apr. [4] MIRABEAU B[UONAPARTE LAMAR, GRANADA, NICARAGUA] TO THE MUNICIPALITY OF GRANADA. Petition, praying authority to purchase land for a residence upon the lake front. Df. 2 p. Spanish.
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