James A. Williamson to Señor Licenciado Don Adolfo Zuniga, October 10, 1874

Mr. Williamson to Mr. Zuniga.

Sir: I have the honor to call your attention to our correspondence on the subject of the outrage upon the consulate of the United States at Omoa, in July of 1873, by the troops of Honduras under the command of General Straeber, and to say, up to this time, nothing further has been received from your government on the subject.

Your attention is called to the date of the correspondence as a justification for the expression of the belief that the government of Honduras has had ample time to make the investigations which it proposed to make into the occurrences attending the outrage, and to be prepared either to render the satisfaction demanded or to show that it was based upon errors of fact.

Your excellency’s government has been so much occupied in the patriotic work of re-organization that this matter has not been pressed upon you from this legation.

So much time has elapsed without any communication from the government of Honduras upon this subject, that it is deemed advisable to renew the demand, with the expression of the cordial hope your excellency’s government will feel able to render to my Government promptly and fully the satisfaction to which it is entitled, the nature of which was intimated in my conversation with His Excellency President Leiva on the occasion of my having the honor of being presented to him officially in Comayagua, on the 19th of February last.

Renewing to your excellency the assurance of my distinguished consideration, I have the honor to be, &c., &c.,