Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-04-09
FAVA'S LETTER TO BLAINE
What the Secretary of State
Said in Reply.
FEELING OF THE ITALIAN PRESS
Senator Sherman Says That
Fava is to Blame.


s and Baron Fava is made public by the
department Of state tonight. Under date
of March 81 Baron Fava writes:
BY my two notes of the 18th and 18th
Instant had the honor to call your excel
lency serious attention to the occurrences
OF exceptional gravity which took place at
New Orleans on the llth whereby four
subjects of the King of Italy, who were
confined in the prison of that city, were
A. massacred by the crowd, under the leader
f ship of two American citizens.
IS NJ After having formally protested against
the unjustifiable conduct of the local au-
thorities who We're evidently recreant to
their duties on that occasion, | reserved to
the government Of his majesty the right to
r demand such satisfaction as il might think
proper, since the occurrences in question
4 Reconstructed patent violation of the stipu-
\ lations Of the treaty m force between our
1.-TWO countries, which secures to Italian
4 Subjects residing in the United States the
same protection that is enjoyed by Ameri-
4 can citizens and which has always been
q extended 10 the latter in Italian territory.
VA The reparation demanded by the govern
ment of the king, as have had the honor
AZ to inform you in our interviews held dur
" ing the last few days, were to consist of the
following points
The official assurance by the Federal
government that the guilty parties should
be brought to JUSTICE
The recognition, in principle, that an in
ldemnity is due TO the relatives of the vic
Tins.
M Your excellency was pleased to declare
To me that, as the Federal government do
not think that it could take this view of
i the case, il declined to take the two afore-
n said demands into consideration. Under
these circumstances, the government of
his majesty, considering that the legitimate
action of the kings minister at Washing
ton becomes inetiicacious, has ordered me
( to take my leave.
" In obedience to the instructions which |
q have received i have the honor to an
nounce to your excellency that | am going
N 10 leave Washington as speedily as posi-
BILE, leaving the Marquis Imperiali, his
majesty's secretary of legation, in charge
ot the current business of the royal lega-
lion.
,.a MIR. BLAINE's REPLY.
M To-day a reply was sent by Secretary
A Bleine to the above letter. 1t was addressed
Il t2 the Marquis Imperiali, Italian charge
d d'aftaireS, and was as follows:
~ have the honor to acknowledge the re.
1ceipt OF note of yesterdays date from
Baron Fava who has left the Italian lega-
tion in your charge. ] beg to express the
sincere regret, with which the government
OF the United States received the intelli-
4 gence Of Baron Faya's speedy departure
4 from this capital. Though he has more
than once intimated this purpose, Che
4 government Of the United States has been
j unable TO sec adequate reasons for such
step. The Baron's service here for the
past 10 years has been distinguished at all
times by The most agreeable relations with
the executive department of this govern
nient. The regret at his leaving is en-
halced when, as the President believes, he
has been recalled under misapprehension
3 OF Iacts BY the government of Italy.
a The cause of his sundering his diplo-
X matte relations with this government is
thus giyeE in his note:
THE reparation demanded by the gov
ernmcnt Of the king, as ] have had the
honor to inform you in our interviews
held during the last few DAYS, were to con.
sist OF the following points:
The official assurance by the Federal
government that the guilty parties should
be brought to Justice
The resignation, in principle, that an
indemnify is due to the relatives of the
The first demand thus stated by Baron
Faya is slightly changed in phrase from
that employed by him in his many verbal
requests based on a telegram from the
Marquis Rudini which he left with me.
The Marquis Rudini declared that
"ltaly's right to demand and to obtain
punishment of the murderers and am in
aben
1t is inferred that Baron Fava's change
OF phrase meant no change Of demand. /
ii'Nu NllhtfiNiltl W IulpTtSS upon llIn
the several personal interviews with which
he has honored me that the government
Of the United States is utterly unable To
give the assurance which tile MARQUIS
Rudlnl has demanded. Even ii the
national government had the entire juris-
dietion over the alleged murderers it could
not give assurance to any foreign power
chat they should be punished
The President is unable to see how any
government could justly give an assurance
oil tins character i'll advance of a trial and |
q verdict of guilty. lii the Constitution of |
the United states il is declared that ,'in all |
criminal prosecutions the accused shall |
enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial |
by an impartial jury Of the state and dis |
triet wherein the crime shall have been
committed
It needs no argument to proye that a
jury could not be impartial If it were in |
any sense or to any degree bound before
the trial of the accused by an assurance |
which the President of the United States |
had ventured e, give to n foreign power, |
IN tiie c9lstltiltloh oi the state of L0uisi- |
ana, under whose immediate jurisdiction |
the crimes were committed, substantially |
the same provision is found. SO that the I
governor Of that state would be as unable |
to give pledge in advance for the result |
oil trial under state law as the President I
would be were it practicable to try the /
leaders of the mob under the laws Of the I
United States.
In Baron Fayas second point he de-
mands the recognition in principle that an
indemnity is due the relatives of the vic /
tins. He is assuredly under grave error
when he declares that the United states
government declined to take this demand T
into consideration, and shall regret ii he .
has communicated such a conclusion to [
your government. The United States, so .
lar from refusing, has distinctly recognized !
the principle Of indemnity to those Italian
subjects who may have been wrongcd by a
violation of the rights secured to them
under the treaty with the United States of
February 2Gth, 1871.
I, have repeatedly given to Baron Favu
the assurance that under the direction of |
the PRESIDENT all the facts and incidents
connected with the unhappy tragedy at
New Orleans on the 18th Of March last
should, be most thoroughly investigated. /
have also informed him that IN n natter Of
such gravity the government of the United
States would not permit itself to be unduly
hurried; nor Will it make answer to any
demand until every fact essential TO n cor
rect judgement shall have been fully as-
certained through legal authority. The
impatienee Of the aggrieyed may be
natural, but its indulgence does not always
! secure the most substantial Justice.
: TONE OF THE ITALIAN PRESS.
ROME, April 1.-The evening papers Of
ehis city comment briefly OH the Fava in