Mr. Foster to Señor Cayetano Romero.
Washington, December 15, 1892.
My dear Mr. Romero: Your two letters of the 13th and 14th instant, respectively, have been received. You therein inclose telegrams from the Mexican consuls at San Antonio and Laredo, Tex., in regard to the assembling of outlaws on the Texas frontier and the disturbances they are occasioning.
Before the receipt of your communications I had already been in conference with the Secretary of War upon the subject of the raids made from Texan territory into Mexico, and had learned from him that the army stationed on that frontier had been as far as possible on the alert, and that he had given renewed instructions for the exercise of the greatest vigilance in preserving the peace of the frontier and in preventing any violation of our neutrality laws, as well as invasion of Mexican territory. I have delivered in person copies of your communications to the Secretary of War, and he has assured me that everything possible is being and will continue to be done to suppress these lawless expeditions and punish the offenders.
Your Government, however, must not lose sight of the actual conditions on that frontier, which is a long line, thinly populated, where the topography of the country furnishes great facilities for concealment and security from pursuit and arrest, with a river frontier easily crossed at any point. Notwithstanding these facts, I desire to assure you that this Government will seek to overcome, as far as is possible, all these obstacles, and will omit no effort to comply to the fullest extent with its international obligations.
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