Morgan to Señor Mariscal, December 16, 1881

Mr. Morgan to Señor Mariscal.

Sir: Referring to the interview which I have this day had of your excellency, and to the copy of the dispatch to me from the Secretary of State, under date of the 29th November last, which I have handed to you, I now, in the name of the President of the United States, tender through yon to His Excellency the President of the Mexican Republic, a formal invitation to send two commissioners to a general congress of all the independent countries of North and South America to be held in the city of Washington on the 24th day of November, 1882,. for the purpose of considering and discussing the methods of preventing war between the nations of America, the two commissioners to the congress to be provided with such powers and instructions on behalf of the Mexican Government as will enable them to consider the questions brought before that body within the limits of submission contemplated by this invitation, which is-fully set forth in the dispatch, a copy of which I have furnished you with; and to this invitation I would respectfully intimate that as prompt an answer may be given as the just consideration of so important a proposition will permit.

I renew to your excellency, &c.,