Provisional President de la Barra to the President.
I am profoundly thankful to Your Excellency for the gracious felicitations you were pleased to send me on my provisionally assuming the office of President of the United Mexican States. I cherish the inmost confidence that the Republic will soon enter upon a new era of peace and progress, and I am resolved upon devoting my [Page 497] every energy to the achievement of that end. I invoke the most cordial wishes for the personal happiness of Your Excellency, of whom I treasure so pleasing remembrance * * * and for the growing prosperity of the powerful Nation over which Your Excellency presides with so much wisdom and with which I desire that Mexico will continue to cultivate close relations.