Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Second Session of the Thirty-ninth Congress

Mr. Dickinson to Mr. Seward.

No 121.]

Legation of the United States, Leon, Nicaragua, November 23, 1866.

Sir: I have to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch No. 81, of 3d ultimo, and enclose herewith a copy of my note to the Nicaraguan government, declaring the reports of filibustering expeditions from the United States against Central America, therein referred to, to be groundless.

I am, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

A. B. DICKINSON.

Hon. William H. Seward, Secretary of State, Washington, D. C.

Mr. Dickinson to Mr. Cortes.

Legation of the United States, Leon, November 22, 1866.

Senor Minister: Referring to my despatch to your excellency of 25th August last, I have now the honor to enclose, for the information of your government, a copy of a despatch which I have received from the Secretary of State of the United States, conveying the satisfactory assurance that the late reports of unlawful expeditions being fitted out or contemplated in the United States against Central America are entirely groundless.

I am, senor, your excellency’s very obedient servant,

A. B. DICKINSON.

His Excellency R. Cortes, Minister of Foreign Relations, &c., &c., &c.