Rufino de Elizalde to To Dr. Manuel R. Garcia, October 15, 1877

The minister of foreign relations to Mr. Garcia.

Mr. Minister: The policy inaugurated by the President of the republic in the message which he addressed to Congress on opening the sessions of this year, and the acts performed by him, have been followed by a result which surpasses the hopes even of those who were most sanguine concerning this far-seeing attitude which he assumed with patriotic sentiments.

Yesterday, on leaving the Temple at the conclusion of the solemn Te Deum, at which nearly the entire population of Buenos Ayres was present, the President found the republic in all the plenitude of its moral and material power, thus reaping the well-earned fruit of a policy which is destined to redound to the welfare of the country and of the nations with which we are on terms of friendship.

For the first time since our emancipation, the republic has a national authority, which, controlling all its elements, can rely upon the support of all its inhabitants, both native and foreign.

The republic needed this power in order to maintain its friendly relations with all nations on a footing of reciprocal justice and equity, and Divine Providence will inspire the President so to use this power as to draw closer its relations with friendly nations and to maintain them cordially.

Your excellency will endeavor to make known these facts and statements to the government to which you are accredited, for the sake of the mutual benefits which they cannot fail to produce.

God guard your excellency many years.