Letter

Foster to To the, November 29, 1876

Author

Foster

Recipient

To the

Date

November 29, 1876

Type

Letter

Language

English

No. 211. Mr. Foster to Mr. Fish.

Legation of the United States, Mexico, November 29, 1876. (Received December 14.)

No. 466.]

Sir: The newspapers of this morning contain the proclamation of General Porfirio Diaz announcing himself as provisional president of the republic, under the plan of Tuxtepec. This step is a natural result of the proclamation made on the 27th instant declaring that plan as the law of the republic, but it renders more difficult any adjustment with Mr. Iglesias.

A full cabinet of ministers of state is announced in the morning papers, but as yet no official publication has been made. Everything indicates that General Diaz will go forward with the reorganization of the government, without any regard to the Iglesias movement. His army is reported to be advancing from this city in the direction of Quertaro, and the expectation is general that hostilities may be inaugurated between the two parties at an early day.

I am, &c.,

JOHN W. FOSTER.

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.