Letter

FISH, Secretary to Wickham Hoffman, May 20, 1876

Author

FISH, Secretary

Recipient

Wickham Hoffman

Date

May 20, 1876

Type

Letter

Language

English

No. 129. Mr. Fish to Mr. Hoffman.

[Telegram.]

Washington, May 20, 1876.

Hoffman, Chargé, London:

Lord Derby’s note not received until 17th instant. Public journals report the attorney-general as having said, on 13th, on asking Winslow to be remanded for ten days, that unless reply were received within that time, no further detention would be asked. Lord Derby’s note cannot be replied to by telegraph; no other mode of transmission could put it in London by the 23d.

If the British government is determined to refuse to surrender the fugitive, except on receiving the stipulation demanded, it is right to say to Lord Derby that it is impossible to give the stipulation. The President has not the power, if he were disposed to do so, as will be explained in a reply to his note, now being prepared, and which will be forwarded at an early day.

You will read this to Lord Derby.

FISH,
Secretary.

Topics

19th Century Diplomacy Reconstruction

Sources

FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the P View original source ↗

U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the P.