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Hamilton Fish to Rio Grande City , December 7, 1872 . Received of Victor Morel, for Captain A. Sheridan, fifty-nine (59) bures, captured from cattle-thieves. J. E. MARTIN , Sheriff Starr Co, January 22, 1873
No. 279. Mr. Fish to Mr. Nelson.
Department of State, Washington, January 22, 1873.
No. 314.]
Sir: I transmit for your information a copy of a communication of the 17th instant, addressed to this Department by the Secretary of War, relative to a recent raid into Texas by cattle-thieves from Mexico. You will take occasion to mention the subject to the minister for foreign affairs, and to point out the expediency on the part of the Mexican authorities of endeavoring to check such depredations. If this should not soon be done, the exasperation of the immediate sufferers will inevitably extend to the rest of their countrymen, and retaliation will be demanded in a tone which it may be difficult to resist.
I am, &c.,
Hamilton Fish.
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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.