Note XVI-28 — Chapter XVI · WALKER'S CAMPAIGN IN NICARAGUA. 1855-1856.
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Norberto Ramirez, who favored its ratification as the least of two evils, said in the council: 'I know that we have before us two abysms; one close by, and the other a little farther off: that the disapproval of the treaty carries us to the nearest one, and its approval to the other somewhat more distant.' His advice was followed. Perez, Mem. Hist. Rev. Nic., 168.