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presidential manifesto. He had received no word from his gov-
ernment of either of these documents and considered the report
"clumsily contrived fiction; for it is incredible that those Presi-
dents could have committed so impolitic an act, unless they
had already foregone the use of their reason.""
Early in July Lamar had reported that President Martinez
had suddenly signed the treaty with various modifications and
had despatched it to Washington. Lamar also advised that
General J6rez (leader of the opposition party and former co-
president with General Martinez), was on his way to Wash-
ington, to aid, or perhaps to forestall, Irisarri in the treaty
matter. Before General Jerez arrived in Washington all the
novel details of the canal contract and its unique rider had
become public. President Buchanan and Secretary Cass were
genuinely indignant.
The canal contract granted extraordinary privileges to the
French government, one of which was the right of maintaining
two warships in the waters of Lake Nicaragua while the canal
should be under construction. Appended to the canal contract
was the manifesto of the presidents of Nicaragua and Costa
Rica appealing for protection against filibuster expeditions,
which, according to the manifesto, while being officially re-
proved by the government of the United States, were in reality
being prepared under its patronage as a means of taking pos-
session of Central America if Central America did not will-
ingly surrender to the United States.
The document proceeded further to impugn the motives and
characters of the official agents of the United States, to accuse
Lamar of having publicly boasted that the United States would
take legal possession of Nicaragua by ratification of the Cass-
Irisarri treaty, or by means of filibusters organized under the
American flag. The Washington government was referred to
as having admitted its powerlessness to prevent new filibuster
expeditions, and, since Costa Rica and Nicaragua could not
protect themselves, they placed their independence and na-
tionality under the guaranty of France, England, and Sardinia!
Secretary Cass addressed a long despatch to Lamar, re-
viewing the indignities, insults and injuries that the United
States had endured from Nicaragua, and concluded by in-
x1Irisarri to Cass, June 16, 1858, in Manning (ed.) Diplomatic Corre-
spondence, IV, 682.154
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