23 nor yet the Nicaraguan lawyer who after the lapse of the three years demanded the forfeiture of the contract, who is now a judge in the supreme court of Managua, and who received 10, 000 silver in payment for those services which were so ruinous to the country.
There is no doubt that these crimes should be punished. The Emery claim was just and the 600, 000 gold should be paid. The debtor, liowever, is certainly not the nation, but rather its unworthy employees. Unfortuinately, Nicaragua has neither public opinion, law or justice. When was a Representative in the first Assembly at Managua, introduced a bill for the prosecution of Zelaya and his accomplices; but all of the interests created by the government of the Dictator, now represented by several of his friends, strongly opposed any action of this character.
And it is now the fact that the former courtiers of Zelaya, skilful in intrigue and adept at bargains, are excluding patriots from the government and even expelling them from the country, and are again grasping the national treasury. The Zelaya régime has brought the country to such a serious condition of illness that it seems impossible to find a remedy. If the United States Government would intervene to free us from such scandalous depredations and establish a government of justice and morality, thus dignifying law and truth, its intervention would be a thousand times blessed; but to sustain tyrants and military ignoramuses, as has been done occasionally, undoubtedly through error, no, no, a thousand times no.