Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-05-18
MENDONCA'S FAREWELL
An Earnest Argument for the Monroe Doc
trine Expressed.
Significant Utteranccs at the Leave
Taking of the President by the
Brazilian Minister.

Senior Mendonca, the Brazilian minister.
presented his letter of recall to the Presi
| dent at the White House today. In doing
| so he addressed the President, and after
| expressing his personal feelings said:
| But friends do not part in the solemn
hour in which the nation is called to arms,
! with diplomatic forms merely. Moreover.
my debt of gratitude to your people and
| government for the treatment which have
| received at your hands during a residence
| of almost a quarter of a century is so
| great that 1 cannot take my leave without
! expressing to the first citizen of this mighty
republic my heartfelt appreciation Of your
| henevolsnce toward student of your in
| stitutlonS and an admirer of the high char
acter of your nation"
| The Common. Ideal of Americans.
/ Il have seen Your country in its days of
! joy and of sorrow. l saw, at the Celebra-
| ton of the centenary of your independence,
| the past master in the art of war open the
| great fair of the arts of peace and reveal
| to the world the double greatness of the
| nation which in ten Years had transformed
| swords and guns into implements of indus
try. l saw the great hero laid to rest in
! the heart of your great metropolis. amid
| the mourning of the whole land, and wit
| messed his apotheosiS celebrated by the
voice of the entire Union. l saw the chief
| ma gistrate of the nation felled by an as
| sassin's hand and observed the republic
| continue firm and serene under the empire
| OF the law. In its joy or sorrow the na-
| ton did not depart moment from the
| confidence in its high destiny.
| Il have visited the different regions of
your broad land know the active men of
| the east, the open-hearted inhabitants of
| the west and the chivalrouS southerner. 1t
| has been my fortune to meet the statesman,
| the scientist, the artist, the manufacturer.
| the farmer and the workman. Their COM
| mon ideal Is the honor and greatness of
| their country"
Significant Sentences.
In conclusion Senior Mendonca said:
| 1t has been my aspiration before leaving
your country to sit again at table around
| which all the American republics would re-
enact, on more solid basis, the agreement
| outlined by the unratifed treaty of the 2Sth
of April CT $780, distributing the RESPONSE
bilities of the policy of Monroe, by the
| members of the compact as it is due 10
| their sovereign character. Blessed be the
day which shall witness the meeting of
| such congress, the first step for the es-
| Establishment Of American diet, a high
| court of the international affairs of our
| continent.
| wherever the duty TO my beloved coun-
| try will call me, l can assure you that my
| heart and sympathy will be with your noble
| people and with the standard bearer of the
| republican America, who is advancing the
| outpCsts of human freedom into the last
| intrenchments of the past"
| President Mckinley's Response.
| The President, in responding, said that,
| recalling Senior Mendonca's many years of
| efficient and friendly representation, and
| mindful of the agreeable associations
| which he had formed with the officers OF
| this government in the fulfillment of his
| honorable mission, he could not but feel
| regret that his transfer to another post
| terminated the personal rela tons he had SO
| acceptably maintained with this govern
| lnpnt and with the neonla Of
| although at the same time Senior Mendonca
| was to be corgra AFFILIATED the further
| proof OF confidence in his ability and zeal
| which his own government has given him
| IN assigning him to another important mis-
| sion.
The eloquent words you have addressed
| 10 me- continued the President SHOW
| that your long sojourn in this country and
| your many opportunities of observation
| ana or intercourse with our people have
| lniDued you with clear perception alike
| OF the historical and moral origins of our
| political and In Intellectual system and of the
| figh purposes which have ever inspired our
| &C commonwealth in its relations with the
| other communities of the earth, whether
| they be our neiehnors or our distant
| friends; coadjutors or our generous
| rivals in the paths of industry and COM
| merce; or whether allied to us by ties of
| blood and similarity OF constitutional forms
| or divided by differences of race and gov
| ornamental structure
| For nearly a quarter of a century YOU
have dwelt among us, a spectator of our
| Domestic development and an interested
| student CT the great social and political
| problems which have SO seriously con-
| honted all the nations during these clos
| ing years of the worlds most eventful
| century, and from which the United States
| whilst steadily keeping to their own self
| appointed path, have not been exempt.
Calm Reason and Hardy FoI iitude.
| However sore the passing trial. or hard
the problem of the hour, you have seen it
| net by the calm reason and hardy forti-
| tude Of our people, furnishing additional
| evidence of the wisdom of those who
| founded the republic on the immutable
| bases of union, justice, self-contrul and
| charity toward all
| Il wish for you, Mr.. Minister, all per-
| sonai happin ass in your new field of useful
| duty. May the memories you take with
| you of the friendship and esteem you have
| won here be matched by those which lie
| before you iE another land.
| in thus bidding you farewell I ask you
| to be the messenger of the earnest, frat.
| ernal greetings of this government and peo-
pie to Brazil and its citizens, and of their
| trust that they may long reap the fruits of
| their devotion to the cause of self-govern-
| ment, and that the blessings of peace, adj
| vancement and plenty may ever be their
| lot; ard l beg you to assure thu president
| of the republic of my cordial wishes for his
personal welfare"