had, if any, with General Herran as the Representative of Ospina's Government in New Granada since it went out of existence.''
On the 12th. day of December 1846, a treaty of amity, peace and concord was concluded between the United States of America and the Republic of New Granada, which is still in force. On the 7th. day of December 1847, General Pedro Alcantara Herran, who had been duly accredited, was received here as the Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of that Republic. On the 30th. day of August, 1849, Senor Don Rafael Rivas was received by this Government as Charge d'Affaires of the same Republic. On the 5th. day of December, 1851, a Consular Convention was concluded between that Republic and the United States, which Treaty was signed on behalf of the Republic of Granada by the same Senor Rivas. This treaty is still in force. On the 27th. of April, 1852, Senor Don Victoriano de Diego Paredes was received as Charge d'Affaires of the Republic of New Granada. On the 20th. of June, 1855, General Pedro Alcantara Herran was again received as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, duly accredited by the Republic of New Granada, and he has ever since remained, under the same credentials, as the representative of that Republic near the Government of the United States. On the 10th. of September, 1857, a Claims Convention was concluded between the United States and the Republic of Granada. This Convention is still in force, and has in part been executed. In May, 1858, the Constitution of the Republic was remodelled and the nation assumed the political title of ``The Granadian Confederacy.'' This fact was formally announced to this Government, but without any change in their representative here. Previous to the fourth day of March, 1861, a revolutionary war against the Republic of New Granada, which had thus been recognized and treated with by the United States, broke out in New Granada, assuming to set up a new Government under the name of the United States of Columbia. This war has had various vicissitudes, sometimes favorable, sometimes adverse to the revolutionary movement. The revolutionary organization has hitherto been simply a military provisionary power, and no definitive constitution of Government has yet been established in New Granada in place of that organized by the Constitution of 1858. The Minister of the United States to the Granadian Confederacy, who was appointed on the 29th. day of May, 1861, was directed, in view of the occupation of the capital by the revolutionary party and of the uncertainty of the civil war, not to present his credentials to either the Government of the Granadian Confederacy or to the provisional Military Government,