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powered to say or do was insufficient to incite confidence either in the wish or ability of my governmt to suppress Filobusterism or protect the country from aggressions. It seemed impossible to seperate in their minds the honorable conduct of the United States from the maroud- ing invasions that had existed in violation of her laws when they did exist, and which had been suppressed alone by the exercise of those laws - It was in vain that I reminded Nicaragua of the act which removed the last fillobuster expedition from her soil, an act that should have inspired condidence in the future and respect for the past. But with a people of ardent feelings and quick imaginations the rumors of peril industriously circulated day by day produced a degree of excite- ment that all my efforts to inspire condidence failed to overcome.- This feeling of distrust and apprehension against my govment and country men was I have little doubt increased and fostered by the Eng- lish residents of Nicaragua not by the English Legation itself - Some secret promises must have been held out to Nicaragua by persons whom that government supposed poweful with England, which excited a com- stant hope of British interferance against American interests. This, with, like vague hopes, held out with with [sic] or without authority, by that French adventurer Belly, constantly operated to defeat all my efforts to attain action on the Cass-Yrisarria Treaty - This secret influence proved so powerful that my position was rendered exceedingly arduous and uncomfortable in every respect. All the just influence which should have belonged to me, as the representative of a powrful nation, was undermined by an interferance to intangible for effective opposition yet so powrful that it aroused the imaginations of an excit- able people beyond the control of facts or reason That both England and France had emisaries at work to defeat the Treaty I had no earthly doubt from the time I entered the country, and that they have suceeded in !felaying action upon it up to this time is too apparent for the necessity of proof. These almost fatal obstacle existed against my mission when I first entered the country - I felt them in a thousand ways in the evasions of the government when I addressed it - In the repulsion against america so visible among the people, and in the fact that some unseen obstacle was sure to arise to thwart my object in gaining a recognition of the treaty just as it seemed on the verge of success - I had no power to oppose all this array of difficulties with anything but argument, kindness and persuasion - for of what avail were threats or a process of intimadation in the face of a refusal by Congress to grant to the President of the United States· the powr to enforce justice? When that act of our N" ational Legislature reached :Kicaragua, para- lisiug the little power I possessed,- the whole people exulted openly in it as an eYidence that the United States were intimidated by the appeal which :Kicaragua had made to :France England & Sardinia and that the govrment dared not enforc good faith or punish treachery under the menace of this appeal. 'fhe political distrust that met me in the country was neu entirely coJHJlH'red, but I am happy to say that in my constant efforts to obtain a confirmation of the treaty, my personal relations with the govrmnt become more a11d more conlial till, at last, a state of mutual kind fcel- i11g was estahli::<hcd all<1 many asperities that once existed in my mind
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