Rutland herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1823-1847, 1836-02-02
A. PAGEOT.
No. lO.-.Mr. Forsyth to VI. Pageot.
DEPARTMENT OF STATE.

NO. lo.-!Hr. ForsyM TO VI. PdgeOf.
DEPARTMENT or STATE.
Washington, 3D. Dec. 1886.
SIR | had Yesterday the honor to receive you
note of the lst instant, with the accompanying pa
per, purporting to be a copy of letter. addressed
under date of the 18th ofJune last by his excellen.
cy the Duke de Broglie, Minister of Foreign AT
fairs of France, TO yourself.
After referring to what occurred in our interview
Of the lllh of September, in regard to the originaI
letter, and expressing your regrets at the course
then felt 1t my duty TO take, you request me to
place the copy enclosed in your letter under the
eye of the President.
10 allowing you, during that interview, to read
TO me the Duke de Broglie's despatch, which
chcerfully did, you were enabled to avail yourself
of that informal mode of apprizing this Department
Of the views of your Government in the full extent
authorized by diplomatic usage. The question
whether or not ! should ask a copy Of that despatch
was, of course, left as it should have been BY your
Government, exclusively to my discretion. My
reasons for not making that request, were frankly
stated to you, founded on a conviction that, in the
existing state of the relations, between the two
countries, the President would think it most prop
or that every communication upon the subject in
difference between them, designed to influence his
conduct, should, before 1t was submitted 10 his con-
sidersilon, be made to assume the official form be-
longing to a direct communication from one Govern.
ment to another. by which alone he could be ena.
oled TO cause a suitable reply to be given to it, and
to submit II, Should such a step become necessary,
10 his associates in the Government. | had ulsc
the honor, at the same time, to assure you, thai
any direct commu iicaiion from Yourself, as the rep.
resentative Of the Kings Government, to me, ein.
braclng the contents of this despatch, or any Other
matter you might be authorized to communicate IL
the accustomed mode, would be laid without delay
before the rtvs'ds"i, -"J "VIiu undOuUtvuIy -
ceivc from hin an early and just consideration.
1t cannot have escaped your reflections that my
duty required that the circumstances Of the inter
view between US should be reported 10 the Presi.
dent, and that the discovery of any error on NV
part, 10 representing his views of the course proper
to be pursued on that occasion would. without fail
have been promptly communicated to you. That
duty was performed. The substance of our inter,
view, and the reasons by which my course IN il had
been GUIDED, were Immediately communicated TO-
and entirely approved by him. ! could not, there.
lofe' have anticipated that, after so long a period
had elapsed, and without any change in The condl.
uon OF affairs, you should have regarded il as use.
iui or proper TO revive the subject at the time and
10 the form you have seen fit TO adopt. Cordially
reciprocating, however the conciliatory sentiments
expressed IN your note, and 10 difference to your re-
quest, ] have again consulted the President On the
suleet. and am Instructed to inform you that the
opinion expressed by me in the interview between
u.s. aud subsequently, confirmed by him, remains un.
changed aud | therefore respectfully restore
TO you the copy Of the Duke de B~roglie's letter.
a. ! cannot make the use Of it which you desired.
am also instructed to cay that the President
eh'sfAios decided conviction that departure, in
The present case. from The ordinary aud accustomed
method Of international communication is csleula
LED to Increase. rather than 10 diminish, the Difficult.
ties u%nhs9P'ly exciting between France and The