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No. 2c87 [1858 Feb. 8, M. B. LAMAR, MANAGUA, NICARAGUA] AD- DRESS UPON BEING PRESEN'l'ED TO [PRESIDENT TOMAS MARTINEZJ5° Permit me to express my sincere gratification at having been selected by my government for the acceptable duty of cultivating the most cor- dial relations with this republic The hand of our Divine Father has united our respective countries by the strongest natural ties - Their immediate in [terest an]d their· future prosperity are bound together by unchangeable laws of mutual advantage and it is the earnest wish of my government to strengthen these bonds of fraternal concord by every means in its power The favorable peculiarities of our geographical position the general benifit of a free exchange of the productions of our distinctive climates and our common devotion to liberal institutions all combine to place our people on a truly fraternal basis - We are all the children of free and republican America and we all should feel willing to sacrifice private prejudices in favor of a great continental system of strength and prosperity My government holds it as an immutable axiom of inter American policy that the peace prosperity and natural independence of each mem- ber of the great family of American republics should be objects of friendly solicitude with all its sister nations - It is convinced that a just comprehension of our reciprocal positions will be of itself a suffi- cient guarantee for the [performanJee of the sacred duties of comity and friendship with all nations and more particularly with the mem- bers of our own American family . These sentiments have been the law of my life and I have some reason to believe that my adherence to these principles and my well known sympathies with this bran r sic] young republic had its weight in inducing the President of the United States to honor me with this mission and to confey [convey] to you personally the assurances of the friendly interest of my government in the continued prosperity of your administration No. 2588 1858 Feb. 14, l\1. B. LAMAR, MANAGUA, [NICARAGUA] TO G. JUAREZ, [MANAGUA, NICARAGUA]51
Legation of the United States Managua Fby 14th. 1858.
To His Excelency
Gregorio Juarez Minister of Foreign Relations Sir
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