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The Last "Crusade" of Mirabeau B. Lamar
the bank with guns pointed at the vessel, and another stop
was made. Lamar was informed that an American employee
on the vessel had attempted the life of a native boy, who was
standing nearby, very much alive and howling lustily. The
American was placed under arrest amid great consternation.
Lamar's attempts at pacification were ineffective. Finally an
English passenger, chafing at the delay, offered to conduct an
arbitration. The boy was formally consulted as to whether two
dollars would compensate for his almost imperceptible wounds,
which had been made by his having carelessly gotten in the
way of a barrel that was being placed on the boat. He con-
sented, the money was paid, the American released, and the
boat allowed to proceed."
There was probably no other individual in all Central Amer-
ica who more cordially hated everything American than did
the powerful leader of Nicaraguan conservatives, President
Tomas Martinez. His unfavorable attitude toward the Cass-
Irisarri treaty was manifested even before the formalities of
Lamar's official reception had been completed. Undaunted by
the opposition he found awaiting him, Lamar zealously set
to work to "convert" the Nicaraguans to friendship and to
gain favor for the treaty. He found in Minister of Foreign
Relations, Gregorio Jadrez, one who seemed willing to hear his
arguments. Just before the meeting in which the treaty was
to be submitted to the Senate for ratification, Lamar addressed
a communication to Ja6rez, in which he set forth the advan-
tages that would accrue to Nicaragua if she would ratify the
treaty. This communication was completely undiplomatic. It
was intended to be so, for Lamar insisted that he was speaking
as a friend of Nicaragua, and as an advocate of what he con-
sidered to be her best interests. He quite openly preached a
sermon on the evils which would fall upon those who sought
to impede progress in order that their ease might be preserved.
Some of the language was frank to a fault. Nicaragua was
reproached for her fawning attitude toward England, and
warned that to count on benefits to be derived from a possible
conflict between the United States and England or France was
simply to follow a chimera. With all the force of his ex-
9Lamar to Cass, February 2, 1858, in Charles Adams Gulick, Jr., and
Winnie Allen (eds.), The Papers of Mirabeau B. Lamar, IV, Pt. 2, 99.151
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