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PAPERS OF MIR.A.BEAU BuoNAPARTE LAMAR
No. 2727 [1859?]. Jan. 1, [STEPHEN ARNOLD] DOUGLAS, NEW YORK, [NEW YORK] Speech upon the Clayton-Bulwer treaty and the Central American question. Df. 2 p. · Spanish translation. No. 2728 1859 Jan. 23, TOMAS MARTINEZ, MANAGUA, [NICARAGUA] Invitation to the baptism of his first son, and to a ball, Jan. 23. Broadside. Addressed to Lamar. No. 2729 1859 Feb. 8, THE STATES. WASHINGTON [D. C.]3° MINISTER LAMAR. The Abolition press is publishing what purports to be letters from officers of the United States ship Merrimac, full of ungenerous asper- sions on the character and conduct of our minister in Nicaragua. There is a suspicious family resemblance in the tone and style of these attacks, and were we not distinctly given to understand that they emanated from officers of the navy, we would be inclined to fancy they were the manufacture of some one aspiring to displace Mr. Lamar in his mission. Gen. M. B. Lamar is a person of simple manners and democratic habits. He is in tastes and principles a "man of the masses," as he was styled when president of Texas. He never learned to cringe to power; and when he filled the executive chair he taught some rich lessons to the ministers of France and England, who were sent out to wheedle or browbeat the young republic into Abolition treaties- and this may be his real offence. He had then the same habits which now throw the Miss Nancys of the Merrimac into spasm of outraged·"propriety;" and then, as now, dainty cavaliers were shocked because the soldier statesman would occasionally take off his coat to fold it under his he~d, and throw himself on the hard floor, or under the shade of a tree, to sleep away the fatigues of such toil as it was not in the soul or body of these trim fault-finders even to dream of attempting. Then, as now, he was censured for mingling too freely and cordially with the common people. His "way of setting down with publicans and sinners" gave unlimited disgust to the Pharisees, but he was also the man to take the fore front of danger on the Indian frontier. He was the man whose daring skill held Mexican invasion at bay during his whole term of office by carrying the war into their own borders, and he was the man who won for Texas the honorable recognition of the chief European Powers. His diplomatic skill detached Yucatan from Mexico, while his bold naval chief, Commodore Moore, swept the enemy's
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