Mr. Plumb to Mr.
Seward.
No. 113.]
Legation of the United States,
City of Mexico,
April 20, 1868.
Sir: On the receipt of your dispatch No. 47, of
the 25th ultimo, instructing me to express to President Juarez, in
behalf of the President of the United States, felicitations upon his
escape from the peril of the recent conspiracy to assassinate the
President and other members of this government, I sought an Interview
with the President for that purpose, which has to-day taken place, in
company with Mr. Lerdo de Tejada.
I have now the honor to transmit to the department, herewith, a
translation of my remarks, which were in Spanish, and from memory, on
that occasion.
President Juarez, in a few words in reply, expressed his deep
acknowledgments for this mark of attention and of friendly interest on
the part of the government of the United States, and his desire that the
relations between the two countries might in every way be strengthened
and rendered more intimate, towards which end his efforts would always
be directed.
I am, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
Hon. William H. Seward, Secretary of State, Washington, D. C.
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Mr. President: When I received information
of the wicked conspiracy which threatened, perhaps, the life of your
excellency, and of other memhers of the government, and that was so
opportunely frustrated by the vigilance of the authorities. I passed
immediately to the department of relations, and to visit your
excellency, to express my felicitations, and in anticipation those
of my government, upon the fortunate escape from this danger.
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Afterwards I communicated this information to the government of the
United States, by whom it was received with pain, though, after our
own experience, not with surprise.
I have now received the orders of the President of the United States
to express in his behalf to your excellency his felicitations upon
the escape of your excellency from this imminent peril; and I am
authorized, at the same time, to assure your excellency that the
government and people of the United States sincerely sympathize with
your excellency in your arduous and enlightened labors directed to
the retrieval of the fortunes of the republic.
