Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Second Session of the Fortieth Congress

Mr. Dickinson to Mr. Seward

No. 123.]

Legation of the United States, Leon, Nicaragua, December 20, 1866.

Sir: I transmit herewith a copy and translation of a note received from the minister of foreign affairs of this government, in answer to your despatch relative to filibustering expeditions against this country.

I am, sir, respectfully, your obedient servant,

A. B. DICKINSON.

Hon. William H. Seward, Secretary of State, Washington, D, C.

[Translation.]

Señor Cortez to Mr. Dickinson

National Palace, Managua, November 30, 1866.

Mr. Minister: I have the honor to answer your excellency’s valuable despatch of the 22d instant, enclosing a copy of a note from the office of the honorable Secretary of State of the government of the United States, and to inform your excellency that by the reading of them his excellency the President has manifested much satisfaction, and approved in a high degree the solicitous and patriotic proceedings of your excellency in the discharge of a subject the bare announcement of which was an affliction to Nicaraguans, and presaged great calamities for the country; in consequence of which I have been directed by his excellency the President to manifest to your excellency his most sincere expressions of gratitude, and at the same time you will receive from the people of the republic the most unequivocal proofs of their regard.

I am, with every consideration, your excellency’s very obedient servant,

ROSALIO CORTEZ.

Hon. A. B. Dickinson, United States Minister Resident, &c., &c., &c,