Mr. Olney to Mr.
Mendoza.
Department of State,
Washington, December 29,
1896.
Excellency: I have the honor to acknowledge the
receipt of your excellency’s note of September 22, 1896, wherewith you
inclose, with an office copy, the letter of the Diet of the Greater
Republic of Central America, addressed to the President advising him of
the new political organization of the Republics of Honduras, Nicaragua,
and Salvador, agreeably to the provisions of the treaty concluded
between them at Amapala, Honduras, June 20, 1895, the said treaty having
been formally ratified and exchanged.
I inclose the President’s reply, dated the 29th instant, with the
customary office copy, and request that, through your courtesy, it may
properly reach its high destination.
I avail, etc.,
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[Inclosure.]
Grover Cleveland, President of the United States
of America, to their Excellencies Señor Don Jacinto Castellanos,
Señor Don E. Constantino Fiallos, Señor Don E. Mendoza,
constituting the Diet of the Greater Republic of Central
America.
Washington, D. C., December 29, 1896.
Great and Good Friends: I have received
your letter of September 19, 1896, in which you inform me that the
Republics of Honduras, Nicaragua, and Salvador, by a treaty
concluded at Amapala, Honduras, June 20, 1895—such treaty having
been duly ratified and exchanged by the three Governments
concerned—have agreed to form a single political organization for
the exercise of their external sovereignty, with the title of the
Greater Republic of Central America, to be represented by a Diet
composed of three members elected by each of the legislative bodies.
You inform me that you have been chosen as such representatives,
and, after advising me of these circumstances, you assure me of the
purpose of the Republics of Honduras, Nicaragua, and Salvador to
continue to cultivate with the utmost diligence the cordial
relations which have heretofore existed between each of them and the
Government of the United States, and to scrupulously fulfill the
contracted obligations of each of the newly adopted political
organizations not being incompatible therewith.
The purpose and assurances to which you give expression on behalf of
those Republics are exceedingly gratifying. I need scarcely add that
whatever contributes to their welfare, peace, happiness, and
prosperity finds a hearty and echoing response from the Government
and people of the United States.
It will be an agreeable duty to contribute, so far as lies in my
power, to that laudable end.
Cordially reciprocating your wish for the prosperity of the States
composing the Greater Republic of Central America, I beg to extend
to each of you personally the assurances of my highest consideration
and to subscribe myself—
Your good friend,
By the President:
Richard
Olney,
Secretary of
State.
