Manuel Herrera to C. A. Logan, December 24, 1879

Señor Herrera to Mr. Logan.

Sir: I have had the honor to receive the polite communication which your excellency has been pleased to address me under date of the 19th instant, informing me that, having read attentively the constitution promulgated the 12th of the present month, you have found several of its articles affecting the faculties and prerogatives of yourself, as well as the rights of your countrymen, in consideration of which you think it proper to declare that in the future as in the past you will continue to defend the persons and interests of your countrymen, causing their rights to be respected, sustaining their just claims, and asking (pidiendo) justice in all cases in which diplomatic intervention may be justified by the law of nations.

In reply to your excellency as to the reservations which you have thought necessary to make respecting certain articles of the constitution, which your excellency has not specified in the note to which I have the honor to refer, I have to say that my Government has the intention to proceed, as always, to guard (guardar) the constitutional prescriptions in the cases which occur, in conformity with the general principles recognized by international law.

I am, &c.,