Letter

LEAVITT, United States Consul to Castellon, February 3, 1885

[Inclosure in inclosure 2 in No. 316.]

Mr. Leavitt to Mr. Castellon.

Sir: In reply to your telegram of the 27th ultimo, and regarding the case of José Dolores Gomez, I have the honor to say that I am instructed by the minister of the United States in Central America “that the Government of the United States never has consented and never will consent to the arrest and removal from an American vessel in a foreign port of any passenger in transit, much less if the offense be political.”

I am, &c.,

H. H. LEAVITT,
United States Consul.
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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.