Hons. John A. Logan to José Herrera, December 19, 1879

Mr. Logan to Mr. Herrera.

Sir: The undersigned has to acknowledge the receipt of your excellency’s note of the 17th instant, inclosing six copies of the constitution recently adopted by the National Constituent Assembly of Guatemala, and now officially promulgated as operative from the 1st day of March next.

Having carefully perused the printed copy, he has noticed certain articles of the constitution which seriously affect the plainest rights of his countrymen, as well as his own faculties and prerogatives as a foreign representative.

In view of the instructions of his Government, he has, therefore, to declare that he will continue in the future, as in the past, to protect the persons and interests of his countrymen, to cause their just rights to be respected, to sustain their proper claims, and to demand redress in all cases in which diplomatic intervention may be justified by the law of nations.

With sentiments, &c.,