Letter

Rumsey Wing to His Excellency, February 15, 1871

Author

Rumsey Wing

Recipient

His Excellency

Date

February 15, 1871

Type

Letter

Language

English

No. 78.

Mr. Wing to Mr. Fish

No. 74.]

Legation of the United States, Quito, Ecuador February 15, 1871. (Received March 16.)

Sir: Referring to my recent dispatch, No. 64, I desire to lay before the Department certain documents which conclusively establish the military nature of the “fire organization” described in that dispatch, and fully bear me out in my action in the premises.

I forward copies (A and B) of the recent correspondence between the commanding general at Guayaquil and the secretary of war, in this city, (C and D,) being translations of the same.

It will be perceived that the said “the department” is absolutely under the control and supervision of the commanding general, and that in the answer to his communication the minister of war explicitly states that said department is a bona fide military organization, and its members liable, in certain contingencies, to be coerced into the regular army of Ecuador.

I have, &c.,

E. RUMSEY WING.

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.