Mr. Clayton to Mr.
Sherman.
Legation of the United States,
Mexico, March 17,
1898.
No. 332.]
Sir: As instructed in your No. 327, of the 8th
instant, I have to-day addressed a note to the foreign office, copy
inclosed, expressing our Government’s grateful appreciation of an
expression, made by the Mexican minister at Washington, of the profound
sorrow of the catastrophe which befell the U. S. battle ship Maine.
I have, etc.,
[Inclosure in No. 332.]
Mr. Clayton to
Mr. Mariscal.
Mr. Minister: The Department of State at
Washington has received, through your distinguished minister there,
an expression of the profound sorrow felt by the Government and
people of Mexico on account of the catastrophe which lately befell
the U. S. battle ship Maine and a large
number of her seamen.
The sympathy of the Mexican Republic, whose friendship we so
earnestly cherish, is a source of great consolation to the people of
the United States, for which sympathy I beg to express through you
to your Government the grateful appreciation of the Government of
the United States.
I have, etc.,
