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Rh sympathy of the people of the United States, and of the moral support its government had extended to the republican cause in Mexico. The good feeling toward the United States was specially manifested upon the visit to Mexico of William H. Seward, late secretary of state, in 1869. The long-pending question of claims was finally adjusted by arbitration. A balance appearing against Mexico, her government has been since paying it off in yearly installments of $300,000. Other conventions were also entered into by the two governments; one on the 10th of July, 1868, to determine the nationality of citizens of either republic emigrating to the other. A consular convention was likewise signed at Washington July 10, 1868, but failed to be ratified by Mexico.

Diplomatic relations with the powers of Europe were only gradually renewed, the Mexican