File No. 812.00/559.
The Mexican Ambassador to the Secretary of State.
Washington, December 10, 1910.
Your Excellency: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your excellency’s aide-mémoire of the 2d instant, informing me that the Attorney General will gladly receive a complete statement of the legal proofs at our disposal which may justify the arrest or detention of Francisco I. Madero, which it is desired to present before the proper legal authorities of the United States.
This embassy, which justly values the friendly and just attitude of the American Government, will take pleasure in submitting to it all the documents and evidence which may demonstrate the guilt of Francisco I. Madero and his followers as violators of the “American statutes,” also called “neutrality statutes,” thus collaborating with the investigations of the Government of the United States which will show or have shown clearly the actionable character of the operations of the said individuals, who have recruited, armed and organized people on American territory and have crossed the frontier for the purpose of inciting sedition.
In the same manner as I had the honor to submit confidentially to the Department the manifesto of Madero, printed in the United States, in which he incites the army to rebellion, and a facsimile of the appointment made out in favor of a Mr. Urquidi as governor of the State of Tlaxcala, I will continue furnishing to the Department such other evidence as I may obtain. For this purpose, I have the honor to send to your excellency as-addenda to this note, two clippings1 from the San Antonio Light and Gazette of November 20 and 21, respectively, in which there appear certain statements made by Mr. Francisco Madero, father of the person who is self-constituted Provisional President of Mexico, and which in themselves indicate the character of his son’s actions. He tried to deny these statements, but the reporter who furnished them to the paper affirms in the clipping of November 21 above referred to that the words of the said Mr. Madero have been exactly reproduced.
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