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 could not but interest the United States as being their originators upon this continent; that they did not on that account assume to meddle in the internal government or in the mutual relations of the other American republics, whose prosperity they sincerely desired, without pretending to stimulate it by any other means than by their own example, or, when circumstances may seem to require it, by giving friendly counsel which it was hoped would be considered as disinterested as it really is, and not as having emanated from any selfish or interested motive.

When Mr. Morgan observed that the undersigned manifested his full conviction of the friendly sentiments which he had expressed in the name of his government, he added these words: "All that I have said to you will be found better expressed, in relation to the subject now to be presented, in the note which I will proceed to read by order of my government." He then read the note addressed to him by the Hon. Mr. Blaine, under date of the 16th of June last, informing him that the Government of Guatemala had formally applied to the President of the United States, soliciting his good offices in order to re-establish between the two republics the sentiments of friendship, which it was alleged had been interrupted in consequence of the question of boundary pending between them.

Having finished the reading of this note, Mr. Morgan, after offering a copy thereof to the undersigned, who expressed a desire to possess it, added that, if the Government of Mexico accepted the decision of the boundary question with Guatemala by means of arbitration, he thought that the Government of the United States would consent to become the arbitrator, and