Letter

Milton Turner to By the chief executive committee: H. R. W. Johnson, October 30, 1871

Author

Milton Turner

Recipient

By the chief executive committee: H. R. W. Johnson

Date

October 30, 1871

Type

Letter

Language

English

[Inclosure No. 3.]

Mr. Turner to Mr. Johnson.

Legation of the United States, Monrovia, Liberia, October 30, 1871.

Sir: I have to acknowledge the receipt of your dispatch bearing date October the 28th and addressed to “his excellency the United States minister resident,” and conveying information to the effect that on account of the deposal of “President Roye,” “the government of Liberia will be provisionally conducted by a chief executive committee until the arrival at the seat of government of the vice-president of the republic.”

In reply, permit me to re-assure the government of Liberia that the policy of strict neutrality with reference to any internal disturbances that may now exist within the republic of Liberia will be strictly adhered to by the Government of the United States. Please accept the indebtedness of this legation for manifesto inclosed in your dispatch.

I have, &c.,

J. MILTON TURNER.

Topics

19th Century Diplomacy Reconstruction

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.