Letter

Henry Trescot to John Walker Blaine, January 30, 1882

Author
Henry Trescot
Recipient
John Walker Blaine
Date
January 30, 1882
Type
Letter
Language
English
[Inclosure 2 in No. 8.]

Mr. Trescot to Mr. Walker Blaine.

Special Mission of the United States in South America, Viña del Mar, Chili, January 30, 1882.

Sir: The reasons which induced me to ask you to withhold for the present the invitation from the President of the United States to the Government of Chili to take part in the proposed peace congress at Washington are known to you.

The dispatches which I have addressed to the Department upon this subject have also been communicated to you, and you are aware that a similar request was made of Mr. Hurlbut, at Lima, and Mr. Adams, at La Paz.

I have received from Mr. Hurlbut a communication under date of January 18, in which he informs me that he has already communicated this invitation to the Peruvian Government.

However inopportune I may consider this communication, it renders the delivery of the invitation to the Chilian Government at once absolutely necessary.

My request that the invitation be withheld is therefore now withdrawn.

I have written to Mr. Adams to the same effect, and inclose you copies of my communication to Mr. Hurlbut and himself.

I am, &c.,

W. H. TRESCOT.
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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.
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