Consul Moffat to the Secretary of State
Bluefields, June 24, 1910.
Reports that Gen. Estrada has telegraphed following reply to President Morales, of the Cartago court of justice:
I have the honor to receive your aerogram of even date in which you urge me anew to arrive, with Dr. Madriz, through the mediation of your honorable tribunal, at a definite arrangement with the end of pacifying the country, stating that the basis which we have already proposed should be modified, and at the same time promising that the honorable tribunal will decide its attitude with true impartiality. Permit me to manifest to that eminent body that the provisional government, over which I have the honor to preside, on repeated occasions has called upon the patriotism of Dr. José Madriz to bring to an end the war which consumes Nicaragua, offering him sure, just, and equitable bases which guarantee the Nicaraguan people principally liberty in the assemblies, but unfortunately our propositions have been misunderstood or he mistrusts the mediators’ suggestions, as may be seen by the silence which he has maintained, failing in the most trivial courtesy with respect to our repeated messages of peace. In this the provisional government regrets that it can not accept the mediation of the court of Cartago, even in view of its promises of impartiality and justice, because it would thereby commit a grave offense to the American Government, seemingly participating in that suspicion which Dr. Madriz seems to have of the mediator proposed by us from the beginning.