The Citizen J. L. Vallarta to Foster, February 15, 1877

Mr. Vallarta to Mr. Foster.

Sir: The Citizen Porfirio Diaz, general-in-chief of the national array, has to-day again assumed the supreme executive power of the union, the exercise of which he was pleased to delegate to the second in command, Citizen-General Juan N. Mendez, when in December last he took under his immediate direction the campaign which has already terminated happily, and without the effusion of any blood, against the forces which combated the order of affairs created by the plan of Tuxtepec.

On making known to your excellency the stated fact, it is pleasant for me to bring to your knowledge that the public peace is now restored in all parts of the Mexican territory, and that within a short time the constitutional order will be re-established, the functionaries, whose election is at present being made by the people, entering upon the discharge of their respective duties.

I have the honor of assuring your excellency of my most distinguished consideration.