Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-01-29
MATrA's OFFENSIVE LETTER.

.MATTA'S OFFENSIVE LETTER.
The following is the full text Of Senior
Matta's letter, which he sent ont on the
18th of December to all parts of the civil
lied world, and directed Senior Mont, the
Chilan minister at Washington, to cause
to be published in the United States:
Having read the portion Of the report of
the secretary of the navy and of the mes
sage of the President of the United States,
| think proper to inform you that the
statements on which both report and mes
sage are based are erroneous or deliberately
incorrect. With respect to the persons to
whom an asylum has been granted, they
have never been threatened with cruel
treatment, nor has il been sought to remove
them from the legation, nor has their sur
render been asked for. Never has the
house or the person of the plenipotentiary,
Notwithstanding indiscretiOns and deliber
ate provocations, been subjected to any Of
fence, a. is proved by the | notes of Sep
TENDER, October and November.
With respect to the seamen of the Balti-
more, there is, moreover, no eNactness nor
sincerity in what is said at Washington.
III ONNtll ltlltt loOh plttt III d bd'l ltlBl-
borhood of the city, the maintop of Nalpa-
raiso, and among people who are not mod
els of discretion and temperance. When
the police and other forces nterfered there
We're already several hundred people there,
and it was 10 squares or more from the
place where it had begun.
Mr.. Egan sent, on the 10Th of October,
a note that was aggressive in purpose and
virulent in language as is seen 10y the copy
and the note written in reply Oh the 9th.
On the 18th the preliminary examination
had already been commenced: it has been
delayed owing to the nOn-appearancr of the
officers of the Baltimore and owing to UNI
due pretensions and refuSals of Mr. Egan
himself. No provOcatiOn has ever been ac-
cepted or initiated by this department. Its
attitude. while it has ever been one of firm
ness and prudence, has never been one of
aggreSSiveneSS, nor will it ever be one Of
humiliation, whatever may be or has been
said at Washington by those who are inter
ested in iustfying their conduct or who are
blinded by erroneous views.
The kilograms notes ami letters which
have been sent to you contain the truth,
the whole truth, in connection with what
has taken place in these matters, in which
i'll will and the consequent words and pre-
tensions have not emanated from this de-
partment. Mr.. Tracy and Mr.. Harrison
have been led into error in respect To our
people and government; the instructions
recommending impartiaity and friend
ship have not been complied with, neither
now nor before. If no official complaint
has been made against the minister and ma
val officers. il is because the facts. public
and notorious. both in Chill and the Unit
ed States, could not, although they were
well proved, be urged by cur confidential
agents. Proof of this is furnished by the
demands OF Balmaceda and the concessions
made in June and July, the whole Itata
case, the San Francisco at Quintero and
the cable companies. The statement that
the North American seamen were attacked
in various localities at the same time is de
liberately incorrect.
As the preliminary examination is not
yet concluded, ii is not yet known who and
how many the guilty parties are. You no
doubt have the note of November ., writ
ten in reply to Minister Egan. in which /
request him to furnish testimony which he
would not give, although he said that he
had evidence showing who the murderer
was and who the other guilty parties of the
10th of October were. That and all other
notes will be published here. You will
publish translation of them in the Unit
ed States. Deny in the mean time every
thing that does not agree with these state
ments, being assured of their eXactness as
we are of the right, the dignity and the IL
nal success of Chill, Notwithstanding the
intrigues which proceed from so low "a
source) and the threats which come from
so high Ia source).
The Correspondence.
1t is estimated that the volumnous cor
/ respondence accompanying the message
would fill more than 100 columns of close
newspaper print. 1t consists of the letters
and dispatches which have passed be-
tween our state department and Mr.. Egan
and the Gillian department of state since
August, 1890, when the troubles in the
home government of Chill began. On the
part of our government the correspond
ence is by Mr. Blaine. or by Mr. Wharton,
acting assistant secretary of state, in his
place. A large part of it refers to the ref
ugees who claimed the right of asylum at
the American legation in Chilli, when the
Overturn in that government took place
and to whom the CHILEAN officials refused
to grant safe conduct to neutral ground
The remaining portion shows the variou,
steps which have been taken in irving tC
bring to a satisfactory conclusion the com
plicatons growing out of the attack on the
Baltimore seamen. The attitude of Sehol
Malta was throughout of discourteou,
and belligerent nature, as, for instance
when he bluntly said, in long letter dated
October u, that the CHILEAN government
would make an investigation in its OWL
way and its own time; that this investiga
ton would be secret, but when the govern,
ment thought it advisable (or got "gooC
and ready as the saying is) it would tel
what the investigation had disclosed,
The new Gillian government came into
power January l with Senior Pedro Monn
at the head of the department of state
and since then the correspondence on tn,
part of the Gillian government has beer
of much more courteous and pacific tone
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