No. 28.
Mr. Hall to
Mr. Frelinghuysen.
Legation of
the United States,
Guatemala, July 26, 1883.
(Received August 14.)
No. 146.]
Sir: Referring to my dispatches No. 110, of the
19th May ultimo, No. 136, of the 6th instant, and to other correspondence
relating to the steps taken by the Government of Salvador in favor of
projected Nicaraguan canal, I have the honor to inclose the reply of the
Government of Guatemala to the circular letter of the former, which was
addressed to each of the Central American states in May last. The inclosure
is taken from the Diario Oficial of Salvador of the 26th ultimo.
The sentiments and wishes of Guatemala in regard to realization of canal,
under the auspices of the United States, are in full accord with those of
Salvador and Honduras.
I have, &c.,
[Inclosure 1 In No. 146.—Extract from the
Diario Oficial de Salvador, of June 26,
1883.—Translation]
Department of Foreign Relations of Guatemala,
Guatemala, June 15, 1883.
Honorable Minister of Foreign
Relations of the Republic of Salvador:
Mr. Minister: With your excellency’s esteemed
communication of the 12th of May ultimo I had the honor to receive a
copy of the note which had been addressed by the department under your
worthy charge to the minister of that Republic in Washington, relative
to the project of the Nicaragua interoceanic canal, and which
communication I had not answered before, on account of General Barrios
having been absent.
In reply, it is satisfactory to me to inform your excellency that the
Government of Guatemala, for its part, thinks that the initiative steps
of the Government of Salvador toward the American Government, to call
its attention and solicit its aid for the realization of that important
enterprise, of such great utility, and destined by its transcendental
effect to produce the most complete and favorable transformation in the
destinies of Central America, as is demonstrated by the communication of
your Department of State, and the note, of which, you were pleased to
remit me a copy, that, without hesitation, this Government accept and
second, with pleasure, the idea expressed in the invitation, and to that
end instructs its minister in Washington to use his offices in the name
of Guatemala toward the Government of the United States, in the same
sense desired by the Government of your Republic.
I improve, &c.,
