Signor Carignani to Mr. Hill.
Washington, July 21, 1901.
Mr. Acting Secretary of State: Your excellency did me the honor to inform me, by your note of the 20th instant, No. 688, relative to the lynching of two Italians at Erwin, Miss., and to the wounding of a third, that the Department of State has communicated with the governor of Mississippi, and has received from him the assurance that the matter will receive his immediate attention, and that he will make a report in regard to it.
You add that, with a view to assuring the Government of His Majesty the King of Italy that nothing will be neglected by the United States Government, you sent, on the 20th instant aforesaid, a telegram to the embassy at Rome, instructing it to inform the minister of foreign affairs that the governor of Mississippi is investigating the alleged lynching of persons born in Italy, and that the Federal Government will take all legal steps to secure such justice as the facts may warrant.
[Page 285]Finally, your excellency has been pleased to repeat to me the expression already communicated to me orally, of the regret of the President of the United States on account of the unfortunate occurrence.
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of the said communication and to thank you for it.
Be pleased to accept, etc.,