Esquivel to Jacob B. Blair , United States, November 3, 1868

Señor Esquivel to Mr. Blair.

Sir: On the 1st instant, the army of the republic, the municipality of the province, and a considerable majority of the principal citizens of this capital, considered themselves justified in divesting Dr. Don José Maria Castro of his office of President of this republic, and in calling to fulfill the high duty Licentiate Don Jesus Jimenez, who had been appointed first substitute to exercise executive power.

The other provinces have countenanced the action taken by the capital, and fully approve all the measures adopted here.

Licentiate Don Jesus Jimenez has assumed the supreme power, and the undersigned still retains the office of secretary of state in the department of foreign relations.

For the reasons above mentioned, I have been instructed by the President to assure your excellency that the events which have taken place do not alter in any way those frank and friendly relations that happily exist between Costa Rica and the great republic which your excellency so well represents, and that he will consider it one of his most agreeable duties to endeavor to strengthen more and more the bonds which unite the two republics.

I repeat to your excellency the assurance of the most cordial and deepest consideration, with which I subscribe myself your most humble servant,