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Show CARBAJAL GIVEN MICH ASSURANCE. Mexico City. July 17. The members mem-bers of the diplomatic corps greeted Francisco Carbajal, the new president presi-dent of Mexico, in the national palace pal-ace today. Bernardo de Coiogan Cologan, Spanish minister, acting as, desn of the corps, read the following address: "We have come, Mr. President, to-day to-day to the national palace us the representatives rep-resentatives of the foreign nations in whose names I have the high honor of addressing you, with ibe grateful Impression and consoling hope that Mexico is at last approaching that peace which is so earnestly desired and which too. is so indispensable, and we hope it may be given to us! soon to witness the ordial embrace of brethren amid unbounded joy, not unmixed with grief for those who have perished and with solicitude to stanch the country's wounds, and to pour into them the salving balm of concord and charity. "You have come, Mr. President, to this high post in a difficult moment but we feel sure that difficulties do not daunt you You have laid down the highest post In the Judiciary, which you attained at an early age. your merits making up for your youth, and if in the supreme cour' you did your utmost to safeguard your fellow citizens and all the in habitants of the republic In the enjoyment en-joyment of the constitutional guar antees. you will not assuredly now, or as long as you have the honor ot occupying the supreme magistracy of the country, omit any honest en deavor or any sincere effort to put ' an end at the earliest possible moment mo-ment to the griefs and sorrows of this beautiful land, so that Mexico, entering oncn for all on the path leading lead-ing to normal and lawful conditions, jay occupy In her upward and on ward march the prominent place which for so many reasons she Is en titled to among the nations of this continent "Such. Mr President are our fervent fer-vent and most cordial desires." The address of the Spanish minis ter was approved beforehand by the diplomatic corps, so that there mlghi be no question nr- in the extent of recognition which it Implied. Carbajal s Reply. In reply the president 6uld; "I am gratified by this opportunity opportuni-ty of meeting your excellencies in my capacity us chief of state. I desire first to offer you testimony of my highest esteem, togeiher with my respect to thn governments which you so worthily represent in this republic. "I have heard with profound satisfaction sat-isfaction the generous deslitis which you express for the re-establlahment of peace and the consequent union of all Mexicans, and you may rest assured tbai I shall omit no effort to realise that patriotic purpose, which Is the only reason I had for eban donlng the labors of the judiciary and assuming the responsibilities of the position which T now occupy. '"Whatever may be the result of ray M'fori3, I desire to declare that I am not guided by any interested motive and that my personality will in no case be en obstaule to the realign-tlon realign-tlon of the task of coneerd to whicn I have set my hand and whleh is so necessary to ray country in these difficult moments. I, in my turn, ex press my desire for the prosperity of your respective countries and hope that the cordial relations whieh they have hitherto maintained w-itH the Mexican republic will continue unaltered." |