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NOTE OF THE MINISTER OF COLOMBIA. TO THE COLOMBIAN

CHARGE D'AFFAIBES. AT BUENOS .
REPUBLIC OF COLOMBIA.

Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
Palace of the Government, at the Capital of Boris, 6111 March,
113!5.

To Senor Don Gregorlo banes, Envoy of the Republic of Co.

lombia to the Government of Buenos Ayres.

Stwon,—l have the honour to inform you, that on the Sth of
last February Government received the circular of his Excellency
the Liberator, charged with the dictatorial command of Peru, in-
viting that Republic, our ally, to the meeting of the Grand Oencral
Assembly of the American States at the isthmus of Panama, and to
which it has consented by a special convention. His Excellency
the Vice President, equally impressed with the importance of
that ohject, suggests the following points to facilitate its elm.
'cation :

• ITlte Note then goes on to mak.: the Ere propositions contained
in the Note Iron: the Vice President to the Liberator.)
Many and various are, in truth, the matters which will occupy
the assembly of the American states. The first will be to renew
the great treaty of ut.ion, alliance, and perpetual confederacy,
against Spain or any other Power which might intend to con-
quer us.
21 That the Plenipotentiaries s:tould issue, in the name of their
conatitumts, an able Manifesto upon the justice of their cause,
showing the paltry views of Spain, and our system of politics with
respect to the odter Powers of Christianity.
3J. To come to a determination upon the islands or Porto Rico
and Cuba, and of the propriety of combining the forces of all to free
them from the Spanish yoke : and in ease of coming to that resolu-
tion, the proportion of troops to be contributed by each state for
the purpose i and if the island shall be amalgamated with any of
the Confederated States, or if they shall be left at liberty to choose
a government for themselves.
4th. To wake or renew a treaty of commerce as allies or confe-
derates.

sth. To make a consular convention among all, which should
clearly and distinctly lay down the fur.ctions and prerogatives of
their respective Consuls.
6:h. To take into consideration the mecca to give effect to the de-
clarations of the Peal:lent of Abe United States of America, in
his message to the Congress last year, concerning the means to
frustrate any ulterior design of colonization on this continent by
the Powers of Europe, and to resist till principles of interference
in our domestic concerns.

7th. To tis in concert those princi2les of the rights of nations
which nay bear discusaion, and mincipully those %illicit relate to
two nations, when one is in a state of neutrality and the other in a
suite of war.

A lo abort, to declare oo what footing ought to be placed the po-
litical and commercial relations of those parts of our hemisphere,
which, like the island of Santo Domingo or Hayti, are separated
from their old government, ard have not yet been recognized by
any European or American power.
As the three last points equally concern the United States, eonsi-
tering them as neutrals, the Government has thought proper to au-
thorize our Envoy Earaurdinary and flinister Pienipotentiary at
Washington, to invite them to send Deputies to the projected As-
tenibly. I have hastened to take this step, hoping that the Allies
of the Republic of Colombia will rgree upon its utility. It will
give our good, aincere, and illustrious friends (the United States) a
proof of the confidence that may be reposed is us fium our dirinte-
rested proCeedings, anti to the civilized world in genezal, a testi-
mony of our desire to avoid all objects of resentment and disgust,
that might be ortrailoned by the sts.e of war in which we Gad our -
selvea. Assure, therefore, the ill Mister fur Foreign Affzirs, that
the Government of Colombia will feel a true pleasure io knowing
that its views are perfectly in concert with those of the State of
Buenos Ayres.
You will not lose a moment in communicating to me the reaulu-
lion of that Government, upon each one of the points contained in
the present communication.
In the mean time, I Lave the honour to subscribe myself,
Scc. ate.' •

P. GUA L.