2American difficulties, doing away with the power of intervention which the former Treaty of Marblehead had granted to the President of the United States.
With this proviso and only with this pro vi 80g could the National Congress approve of this Treaty; with this proviso and only with this proviso would Costa Rica accept it.
Let the United States, if that be their sovereign will, maintain the prerogatives of their power to force upon these weak Republics their political interests or their idle caprices, for Might stands in no need of permission to satisfy its ambitions. But let them not seek to justify themselves by arguments which recall the logic of the wolf.
Because of the blow it strikes at Nicaragua, because of what it means for all Central America, the no te upon which we are hastily commenting seems to us a cau se for national mourning. May those who bear the responsibility of the destinies of our State be able in this hour of trial, as we sincerely hope they may, to fulfil the sol.
emn obligations they owe to public confidence.