Letter

Señor Don George Williamson to Hamilton Fish, March 31, 1874

Author

Señor Don George Williamson

Recipient

Hamilton Fish

Date

March 31, 1874

Type

Letter

Language

English

No. 102. Mr. Williamson to Mr. Fish.

United States Legation in Central America, Guatemala, March 31, 1874. (Received May 13.)

No. 126.]

Sir: I have the honor to inclose you a translated copy of an address recently issued by President Gonzalez to the people of Central America.

It is not as well translated as I should have wished, but about as well done as was possible with such a document.

In it the President gives what I understand to be a correct history of the faithlessness of Señor Arias, and the elevation of President Leiva to the Presidency of Honduras.

Those passages, that are most important I have marked in the margin, but I beg to call your attention to the remarks on the identity of Central American interests, to be found on pages 22, 23, 21, and 25. You will notice on page 28 he charges President Guardia, of Costa Rica, with being the protector of the Palacios expedition.

It is altogether so remarkable a document that it seemed to be my duty to send it to you.

I have, &c.,

GEO. WILLIAMSON.

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.