No. 446.
Mr. Morgan
to Mr. Evarts.
Legation of
the United States,
Mexico, December 25, 1880.
(Received January 13, 1881.)
No. 144.]
Sir: Complying with your instructions contained in
dispatch No. 80, I addressed a note to the secretary for foreign relations
on the 23d instant, a copy of which I inclose.
I now transmit translation of note this day received by me from Mr. Mariscal,
from which you will perceive that Felipe Burnato, Santos Hernandez, Miguel
Guerrero, and Manuel Guerrero, mentioned in your dispatch No. 71, were
dismissed from the Mexican army in July of this year, and that Guadalupe
George (not George Cino, as the name was transmitted in your No. 71)
deserted therefrom in October last.
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I reserve pressing the question of compensation for their illegal impressment
and detention until I shall receive further instructions from you.
I am, sir,
[Inclosure 1 in No. 144.]
Mr. Morgan to Señor
Mariscal.
Legation of the United States,
Mexico, December 23,
1880.
Sir: Referring to my notes to Mr. Fernandez of
the 27th October and 5th November, respectively, I am again instructed
by my government to press upon your excellency’s government the speedy
discharge of the American citizens who have been, as my government has
been informed, impressed into the military service of Mexico, and who
are now said to be actually serving in the thirty-first batallion of the
army.
In calling your excellency’s attention to this important matter, I ask of
the Government of Mexico to bear in mind that during the existence of
the late civil war in the United States the Mexican Government applied
to the Government of the United States for protection to Mexicans
resident in various States against demands of the local recruiting
officers of the United States upon these Mexican citizens to serve in
the armies of the American Republic. In all such cases the Department of
State brought the subject at once to the attention of the Secretary of
War, and no single instance is met with in which the Mexican citizen’s
claim to exemption from military service in the armies of the United
States was not promptly recognized and respected by that government.
I renew to your excellency the assurances of my distinguished
consideration.
[Inclosure 2 in. No.
144.—Translation.]
Señor Mariscal to
Mr. Morgan.
Office
of the Secretary of Foreign Relations,
Mexico, December 24, 1880.
Sir: Referring to your excellency’s letters of
the 23d instant, of the 27th of October, and of the 5th of last month, I
have the honor to inform you that according to the statements forwarded
to this office by the Secretary of War, Felipe Burnato, Santos
Hernandez, Miguel Guerrero, and Manuel Guerrero were discharged from the
month of July last.
As concerns Guadalupe George (not George Cino, as the name was
transmitted to your excellency), he deserted in October last, possibly
before the receipt in this department of your first letter.
I renew to your excellency the assurance of my most distinguished
consideration.
