Tomas Mejia to To His Excellency J. M. Lafragua, April 12, 1875

Mr. Mejia to Mr. Lafragua.

Citizen Minister of Foreign Affairs: Colonel José L. Christo, in a communication dated the 29th of March last past, states to me the following:

“As I had the honor to say to you in my telegram dated yesterday, I to-day send you a certified copy of the letter of the citizen Mexican consul in Brownsville, sent to me on the date stated therein, as also the newspaper, which I received inclosed therein. By both of these you will be pleased to be informed of the recent events which have occurred in Texas, and the authors of which are said to be Mexicans from our territory; which, in my judgment, cannot be the case, granting that it is correctly stated that some Mexican robbers pass from this side to Texas, as also those from that side to this, they only engage in the robbery of cattle and horses, and never attack a town, as has occurred in the present case; for this reason my opinion is that the wrongs are committed by individuals resident in Texas itself, who, in consequence of local State questions, have risen up as a kind of insurrectionists against the government of Texas. Notwithstanding this, the same day on which I received the said letter I sent a force of cavalry to pass along the bank of the Rio as far as Reynosa, and I will keep it constantly in this service in order to be on the watch and to be prepared, both for anything which may occur and to furnish an opportune remedy, of which I will make report to your department, asking you, citizen minister, to give me orders for the manner in which I should proceed in this matter, as I greatly fear that, with the ideas only peculiar to Texas, efforts may be made to complicate the events, making us appear responsible for acts with which we have had no connection.”

I quote this to you for your information and its proper effects, inclosing to you copies of the documents which are cited.

Independence and liberty.