Chapter V: The Administration of Rivas

Policy of Rivas—His Appointments—Course of the
Clergy—Colonization Decree—El Nicaraguense—Military
Enlistments—The Accessory Transit Company—Its
Mercenaries—Kinney and His Schemes—Negotiations with the
Company—Garrison and Morgan—Course of the Company—Edmund
Randolph and Parker Crittenden—Revocation of the Company’s
Charter—Justice and Policy of the Act—The Randolph
Grant—How Americans were carried to Nicaragua—Sickness at
Granada—Circular of Rivas—General Trinidad Cabañas—His
Influence over Jerez—Resignation of Jerez and Selva—Course
of the Four States of Central America—Commission to
Costa Rica—Policy of the United States—Policy of Great
Britain—British Consul at Realejo—British Aid to Costa
Rica—Declaration of War by Costa Rica—Its Effects on the
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