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 of their own and not for those of any other nation: in their own name and not as allies of Guatemala. It is really the height of blindness to imagine that Guatemala, by stimulating the greed of the United States, could drag them so low as to convert them into an appendix to herself!"

Yet this apparently is what the Government of Guatemala attempted to do in the summer of 1881, from which attempt she did not desist, even upon the advent of the administration of President Arthur.