Señor Benitez to Mr. Washburn..
I have the honor to acknowledge the reception of your note of the 19th, in which, after alluding to a former interview about sending the correspondence for your government to the representative of the United States in Buenos Ayres, you state that every day makes it more necessary to send on that correspondence, and then you give me the reasons therefor, and end by asking me to make this known to the President, that he may order it to be sent by a flag of truce.
I have communicated the contents of that note to my government; and knowing it to be your duty to correspond with your government, I am ordered to inform you that the correspondence of the legation will be received in the department and transmitted by the secretary general in the same manner as your other communications.
I embrace the occasion to renew to you the assurances of my most distinguished consideration.
Hon. Charles A. Washburn, &c., &c., &c.