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Steamer; when I shall proceed at once to that Republic and lay our demands before it - Having no Books to consult, nor any precedents to guide me, I fear I may fall into error, and be doomed to the mortification of having to recede from my estimate of indemnities. I prefer this however, to any further delay in bringing these people to a settlement. ·There are two cases in particular that greatly embarrass me. The one is the murder of Lawless; and _the other is the indignity and insult offered to our American women in ordering them to appear at the Mili- tary quartel for examination as filibusters. - I shall levy a very heavy reclamation in both those cases - especially in the latter, even at the risk of being ridiculed. I had rather exagerate the demand, and leave it with my government to reduce it, than to fall short of a just redress. - I must beg leave to re-suggest the propriety of having a war vessel on this coast - at San Juan Del Sur, or Realejo. - Without it, it is idle to think of bringing this government to any terms: Besides, I con- sider it necessary to the safety of the Americans now in the country; for there is no telling -what Martinas, in his desperation is capable of doing. He is vindictive enough to do any thing, and too big a fool to comprehend the consequences of his conduct.
Very respectfully Yours &c Mirabeau B. Lamar.
To the Hon
Lewis Cass, Secretary of State,
Washington City. _D. C. US.
No. 2657 [1858? July? M. B. LAMAR, LEON, NICARAGUA] TO L. CASS, WASHINGTON, D. 0. 3 President Martinas is generally hated. There is no man in the country more unpopular Indeed, he is execrated in this quarter, and has no supporters any where except the officers of Govt. the Granadian. Merchants and the military, all of whom subsist by extortion, fraud and_ robbery. The people feel that they are deeply wronged and tyranized over, but they have no means of redress, except by revolution; for which they are not now in a condition and which they have every reason to dread, having suffered so often and so deeply from this :tnode of rem- edy.- A strong hostility is also growing up against General Jerez in this section of the country where he has heretofore been very powerful. His union with Martinas has excited general disgust, and indignation; and several of his old friends and most prominent men in Leon assembled to his residence, not long before his departure for the United States, and upbraided him for his treason to his party; and I am told went so far as to threaten his life. - I had recd. some intimation of this circumstance, at Mangua; but did not then believe it until my arrival here. It is supposed that he accepted his Mission merely to get out of the country. He is a very cunning intriguing and treacherous man; and none of his statements are to be relied on. - He has more intelligence than Mar- tinas; but less force of character. -
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