Mr. Wright to Mr. Fish
Sir: In continuation of my dispatch No. 164, I have now the honor to inform you that I yesterday had a conference with the minister of foreign affairs in reference to the subject of your dispatch No. 52. I preferred to confer with him personally in the first place, rather than to make the matter the subject of a note, and after reading to him an extract from your dispatch, which I had prepared to leave with him, I called his attention to the fact that the question involved was the recognition of a principle, and that as he would naturally desire to consult his colleagues, I should not then press him for any solution. I saw plainly that the whole subject of Paraguay was a sore one; but the minister promised to inform himself, and then give me his views.
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