Letter

Ponciano Leiva to the foreign ministers residing in Guatemala, April 6, 1885

Author

Ponciano Leiva

Recipient

the foreign ministers residing in Guatemala

Date

April 6, 1885

Type

Letter

Language

English

[Inclosure 3 in No. 337.—Translation.]

Acting President Leiva, of Honduras, to the foreign ministers residing in Guatemala.

Tegucigalpa, April 6, 1885.

I have received the telegram of your excellencies in which you urge me, with the view of suspending hostilities, that a truce for one month be conceded. I appreciate, as it merits, the humane and friendly solicitude of the ministers, and my Government on its part, wishing that there may be no more shedding of Central American blood, has acceded to the suspension of hostilities proposed by your excellencies, which promise shall take effect when it shall be known that the other belligerent Governments are of the same accord, which I trust your excellencies will be pleased to communicate to me, as also in regard to the negotiations for peace, which may be initiated.

I have, &c.,

PONCIANO LEIVA.

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 P 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 P.