Mr. Romero to Mr. Seward
Mr. Secretary: I have had the honor to receive the note which you were pleased to address to me under date of yesterday, informing me that the government of the United States desires to concentrate in the Territory of Arizona a body of troops from its possessions on the Pacific by causing them to pass across the Mexican territory, and requesting me to submit that desire to the consideration of the government of Mexico with the view of its granting the necessary permission, to enable said troops to disembark at the port of Guaymas, and thence proceed by the most direct route to their destination. In reply, I have the honor to inform you that I have already transmitted your note to my government in which that request is solicited, and that so soon as I shall have received the decision of the President of Mexico I shall hasten to communicate it to you.
I avail myself of this opportunity to renew to you, sir, the assurance of my very distinguished consideration.
Hon. William H. Seward, &c., &c., &c. Washington, D. C.