File No. 812.0144/77
The Mexican Ambassador ( Bonillas ) to the Secretary of State
Excellency: I acknowledge the receipt of your excellency’s kind note of March 25 relative to the representations made by the Mexican Government on the subject of the crossing of American troops into Mexican territory.
The Government of Mexico, in making the representations contained in my note of February 11 last, never had in mind or in the least intended to injure the susceptibilities of the American Government. My Government’s sole purpose in sending the aforesaid note was to draw the State Department’s attention to the facts which for their gravity and importance could not be allowed to pass unnoticed, and at the same time to give the American Government an opportunity to take appropriate measures to prevent a recurrence of those facts and so demonstrate its purpose to maintain the friendly relations that have existed between the two countries.
The Government of Mexico deplores the wrong interpretation assigned to that note by the Department of State, but at the same time feels assured that the American Government convinced of the spirit of justice which inspired the note will pay due attention to the claims of the Government of the United Mexican States which only afford an opportunity to the American Government further to testify its friendship to the Mexican Republic.
I have, by order of my Government, the honor to bring the foregoing to your excellency’s knowledge and to renew to you the assurances [etc.]