Letter

Daniel E. Sickles to Hamilton Fish, March 14, 1873

Author

Daniel E. Sickles

Recipient

Hamilton Fish

Date

March 14, 1873

Type

Letter

Language

English

No. 397. General Sickles to Mr. Fish.

United States Legation in Spain, Madrid, March 14, 1873. (Received April 4.)

No. 554.]

Sir: On the receipt of your cable instruction of the 6th instant I addressed a note to the minister of state, a copy of which, Appendix A, is inclosed, communicating to the government of the republic the congratulations tendered by Congress to the people of Spain.

On the following day I received from Mr. Castelar the reply, translated in Appendix B.

The minister has since intimated to me that the government intends proposing to the national assembly a suitable answer, to be made in the name of that body. As the relations between the executive and the present assembly do not seem as cordial as might be desired, it is not improbable the government may reserve the matter for the action of the Cortes Constituyentes.

I have, &c.,

D. E. SICKLES.

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.