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subjects of the deepest and highest interest to the two countries^ and to 

 the world in general, may be inserted and concluded. 



I am instructed to make my permanent residence in this city, and if 

 negotiations are carried on and treaties made with the other States of 

 Central America^ it must be by^ and through^ the medium of commis- 

 sioners sent by those States, (with full powers and instructions;) to meet 

 and confer with m_e in this city. In the present state of the country; and 

 in my present condition as to health, it is not, and; I think, will not be^ 

 convenient or practicable for me to visit the capitals of each of the States 

 of Central America, and I am not instructed to do so by my government. 

 Yet negotiations can be carried OU; and treaties made^ with commission- 

 ers sent by those States to this city. 



I learn from your letter of the 22d December; that your government 

 has despatched a diplomatic agent to Washington city, our capital, with 

 full instructions. Such being the case, negotiations with your State may 

 be carried on at that capital. Yet, for fear of failure in negotiations there^ 

 would it not be prudent, by means of a commissioner from your govern- 

 ment, to enter upon negotiations and conclude a treaty at this city ? This 

 is for the consideration of your government. 



In the mean time, I say to you, that the United States hopes and desires 

 that the State of Nicaragua will stand firmly on her rights, and that she 

 may not, for a moment, consent to yield to the diplomatic arts that may 

 be practised, or the threats of hostility which may be uttered by Great 

 Britain, a single foot of her rights of territory and dominion in and upon 

 the Mosquito coast and country, and over the rivers and port of San Juan 

 de Nicaragua, or to any of her rivers or ports on the coasts either of the 

 Atlantic or Pacific seas. 



I am, with great respect^ vk-c.; 



ELIJAH HISE. 



His Excellency S. Salinas, 



Secretary of State and Minister of Poreign A ffaii^s, 



of the State of Nicaragua, 



Guatemala, February 14; 1849. 



Sir: I received your letters dated the 22d and 24th of December, 184B^ 

 to which I replied by my note dated the 12th of January, 1849. In this 

 answer, after expressing my thanks for the sentiments of respect and friend- 

 ship manifested by your government for the United States, and after an- 

 nouncing to your excellency formally and officially the fact of my resi-^ 

 dence in this city as charg4 d'affaires of the United States of America to 

 this country, the suggestion is made as to the propriety of negotiating a 

 treaty between my government and yours by means of a commissioner 

 despatched to this, where I am instructed to reside. 



For fear my letter may not have reached your excellency, I send a copy 

 thereof enclosed herein. 



If your government wishes to enter into a treaty with the United States 

 for the purposes as indicated in my note, it will be necessary that a com- 

 missioner with full powers should be sent to this city without delay, as my 

 residence here will be shorty for I design to start on my return to the 



