D Enclosure.
In No. 333.
President Meléndez addressed the following invitation to the other governments of Central America. In view of the result of my endeavors along the line of the projected meeting of plenipotentiaries in this capital, in order to consider matters of which Your Excellency is already aware, and being desirous that the initiative of this Government and the noble and patriotic acceptance which it has deserved because of its principles may not come to nought, it has seemed to me proper to submit to the worthy judgment of Your Excellency the considerations which express hereinafter, and which appear to me to conciliate the differences of opinion: Judging from what has been printed relative to the present situation of Nicaragua, the fundamental object of that Government in its negotiations with the United States consists principally in guaranteeing order and consolidating peace in that Republic, and in obtaining for it financial aid in order to promote the development of its resources and improve its economic and fiscal situation. My Government believes that both ends may be brought about without the necessity of appealing to any foreign element, merely by the efficatious concourse of the five governments of the Isthmus. In addition to the means stipulated in the treaties now in force, others more adequate and effective could be chosen to solidify peace and the order of things existent in Ni.
caragua; and, relative to obtaining financial aid, the four Central American governments could also cooperate with Nicaragua in some practical manner in order to negotiate a foreign loan, executing a joint or other similar security. The ties of consanguinity of the five countries of the Isthmus are so solidary and close, and they 80 firmly answer their reciprocal necessities and the common aspirations of progress and well being, that the governments have not at any time been able to excuse themselves from giving to one another in their vicissitudes, the most effective aid, which vicissitudes necessarily affect the future and happiness of the rest. No one can doubt the existence of Central American public law which imposes the most rigid and the strictest obligations, and executes laws that are more ample and perfect than those established between other nations by International