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 Country PAGE 142