No. 229.
Mr. Evarts
to Mr. Foster.
Department
of State,
Washington, June 22,
1877.
No. 397.]
Sir: Referring to your separate dispatch of the
28th ultimo, advising me that the President of Mexico would dispatch to the
Rio Grande a prudent general with a view to co-operate with General Ord in
repressing outlawry, I now transmit for your information a copy of &
letter of the 19th instant from the Secretary of War and of the instructions
issued by the General of the United States Army upon the subject, which
accompanied it.
I am, &c.,
[Inclosure No. 12.]
Mr. McCrary to Mr.
Evarts.
War
Department,
Washington
City, June 19,
1877.
Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the
receipt of your letter of the 8th instant, transmitting a copy of a
letter from the minister of the United States at Mexico, stating that
the President of the Mexican Government will dispatch to the Rio Grande
border a prudent general, with a view to co-operate with General Ord in
repressing outlawry, and beg to inclose for your information a copy of
instructions issued by the General of the Army on the subject.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
GEO. W. McCRARY,
Secretary of
War.
The Hon. Secretary of State.
[Telegram.]
Headquarters Army of the United States,
Washington, D. C., June 9, 1877.
General P. H.
Sheridan,
Commanding Military Division of
the Missouri, Chicago, Ill.:
The Secretary of War has received, through the State Department, a letter
from Mr. Foster, our minister at the city of Mexico, dated May 28, 1877,
in which he says the
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President
of the Mexican Republic is at last awakened to the importance of
repressing outlawry on the Texas frontier; that he will send a prudent
general to that frontier, with an adequate force and instructions to
co-operate cordially to that end with General Ord. The whole
correspondence will come to you by mail; but meantime the Secretary of
War wants you to instruct General Ord to meet this offer of reciprocity
cordially, to meet or correspond with the Mexican general thus sent to
the frontier, and not to be hasty in pursuit across the border, except
in an aggravated case.
