Letter

Hamilton Fish to Thomas H Nelson, April 13, 1872

No. 307. Mr. Fish to Mr. Nelson,

No. 237.]

Sir: The Attorney General has addressed a letter to this Department under date of the 5th instant, covering a “report” of the grand jury of the United States district court of Texas, relative to the depredations perpetrated upon citizens of that State by persons coming from the Mexican side of the Rio Grande. Copies of these papers are inclosed herewith. You are requested to lay them before the minister for foreign affairs, to remonstrate earnestly against the outrages therein alleged, and to demand redress for them.

I am, &c.,

HAMILTON FISH.

Sources
FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress with the Annual Message of the Pr 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 Pr.