(1947] [FORSYTH to ELLISl
Department of State, Washington, January 29, 1836.
[Dear Sir:]
... You will herewith receive my answer to a late communication of the Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Mexican Republic, complaining of the co-operation of citizens of the United States with the insurgents in Texas. You wiU deliver this letter lo the Minister of Foreign Affairs, and that you may understand the subjects to which it relates, you are herewith furnished with a copy of it, and of the correspondence between this Department and Mr. Castillo concerning them. Your obedient servant, John Forsyth [To Powhattan Ellis] [1948) [FORSYTH to MINISTER] Department of State, Washington, 29th January_ 1836. The undersigned, Secretary of State of the United States, has had the honor to receive the note of the I9th November, 1835, addressed to him by the acting Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Mexican Republic, and avails himself of the departure of Mr. Ellis, recently appointed Charge d'Affaires for l\'lexico, to transmit the answer to it which the undersigned has been directed by the President of the United States to give. Both the subjects of that letter had been already acted upon when the note of the acting Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Mexican Republic was received, and the President instructs the undersigned to express his conviction that the course which has been adopted, while it has been dictated by a just regard to the interests of the United States, and his obligations under their laws, is entirely consistent with that sympathy for the Mexican Republic, and that anxiety for its prosperity, which the United States has ever professed and felt, and by which their intercourse with it has been uniformly rcgulatcrl. As lo the first subject of
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