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No. 2630 1858 May 28, [M. B.] LAMAR, [MANAGUA, NICARAGUA] TO [L. CASS, WASHINGTON, D. C.]8 3 Extract from Genl. Lamr's despatch of 28 May 1858. "Please say to the President that I am entirely content with the change in my mission, as well as with the expression of his wishes that I should remain at my post. I think myself it is best that I should do so in the present excited and unsettled condition of things in this quarter I shall delay my departure to Costa Rica until I receive in- structions upon the subject of reclamations against this Government I think it best to make some move in this matter before I leave." No. 2631 1858 May 28, [M. B. LAMAR, MANAGUA, NICARAGUA] TO [L. CASS, WASHINGTON, D. C.] 84 Extracts No. 10 - 28 May 1858. Extract No 1 "In a previous conversation with the same Acting Minister of Foreign relations he asked - Why were the Americans so anxious to enter Nicaragua as Filibusters, while they are invited under liberal colonization laws to come as friends? I answered that there was no protection for my countrymen when they came under such invitation; for at any moment that the Government or influential individuals be- came offended with or jealous of them, they were liable to be perse- cuted, shot or banished, and have their property confiscated. Under the guaranties of a Treaty they would come as peaceful and industrious citizens, and all would be well; but there being no Treaty, there is no safety, and they must either keep out of the country or come into it with arms in their hands for their own protection. He made no reply. -" Extract 2 "Mr Belley - the Frenchman alluded to in a former despatch -came with President Mora and Negrete- the Salvador commissioner - to Rivas; and without doubt exerted considerable influence in the negociation which took place there. I am credibly ,informed that he publicly denounced the Irrizari Treaty in Costa-Rica, and spoke vio- lently against the American people, sG and of their desires of aggression upon Central America He has been here (Managua) several times, but I have never seen him. He has confined himself to confidential com- munications with the Government; and no one seems to know for what purpose. The general understanding is, that he is in secret negociation for a right or charter to construct a railroad from San Juan del Norte
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