[Translation.]
Mr. Romero to Mr.
Seward
Mexican Legation in the United
States of America, Washington, November 16,
1866.
Mr. Secretary: In reference to the
communication which I addressed to your department on the 29th of
September last, relating to Don Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, I have the
honor to transmit to you this day a number of the official paper of the
Mexican government, of the 22d of October last, containing various
documents on the same subject, and among them a communication addressed
to me by Senor Lerdo de Tejada, minister of foreign affairs of the
Mexican government, from Chihuahua, the 19th of October last, (No. 476,)
approving the terms of the answer I gave to Senor Santa Anna on the 20th
September, of which I sent you a copy with my note of the 29th
September, before mentioned.
I take advantage of this occasion to renew to you, Mr. Secretary, the
assurances of my most distinguished consideration.
Hon. William H. Seward, &c., & c., & c.
No. 1.
[Untitled]
No. 627.]
Mexican Legation in the United
States of America, Washington, September 20,
1866.
I have the honor to send you a copy of the reply I made this day to
the letter which Don Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna addressed to me on
the 5th instant, and of which I sent you a copy with my
communication, No. 623, of yesterday. I informed Senor Santa Anna in
my answer that my discussion with him was hereby closed on my part—a
discussion he had provoked—and that in future I would answer no
further communication from him on the same subject.
In regard to the imputations cast on you, I did not think proper to
answer them, but leave them to you to do it if you choose.
I hereby repeat to you the assurances of my most distinguished
consideration.
Citizen Minister of Foreign Affairs,
Chihuahua.
No. 2.
[Untitled]
No. 476.]
Department of Foreign Affairs
and Government, Chihuahua, October 19,
1866.
The citizen President of the republic has considered your notes
numbered 623 and 627, dated the 19th and 20th September last, with
which you sent me the copy of a letter that Don Antonio Lopez de
Santa Anna wrote to you, and a copy of your answer to him, in regard
to the resolution of the government refusing to accept the offer of
his services. As you have given a sufficient answer to the inexact
conceptions in the letter of Mr. Santa Anna, it is useless for me to
trouble myself about them, in what refers to me and the charges I
made in my
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communication
of the 6th July. Moreover, those charges are recorded in the history
of the misfortunes of the republic, and are corroborated by facts so
generally known that it is idle to dispute them.
Accept the protests of my attentive consideration.
Citizen Matias Romero, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister
Plenipotentiary of the Mexican Republic in Washington, D.
C
