Norwich bulletin., 1914-04-23
BUT ONE BRIEF ACTION
 YESTERDAY AT VERA CRUZ

the following note addressed to Pres ident Wilson.
 Awaiting the action of the Ameri- can senate on your excellency's mes sage directed to said body, caused py the lamentatble incident which occur red between a crew in a whaleboat of the cruiser Dolphin and the soldiers or the usurper Huerta, certain acts or hostility have been executed by the naval forces, under command or Ad- miral Fletcher at the port or vera Cruz and in the face of this violation of national sovereignty which the con- stitutionalist governor did not expect from a government that had reiterat- ed it's desire to maintain peace Wltn the Mexican people, comply With the. duty of elevated patriotism in direct ing this note to you with a view to exhaustfng all honorable means before two friendly nations sever the pa- cific relations thta still unite them.
 krraiened Huerta.
 "And the Mexican nation, the real people of Mexico, have not recognized as its executive a man who has pre- tended to launch a blemish on It's na- tioual integrity, drowning in blood it's free institutions, consequently the aets of the usurper Huerta and his accom- plices do not signify legitimate acts of sovereignty; they do not conSu tute real public functions of interior and exterior relations and much less do they represent the sentiments of the Mexican nation, which are of CO., fraternity towards the American peo- pie.
 "The lack of representative charac- ter of General Vivtoriano Huerta as concerning the relations of Mexico with tho United States as well as with Argentine Republic. Chile, Brazil and Cuba, had been clearly establish l., a 1xJ1 Df nations who have refused to recognize the usurper in this way lent va-lu- able moral support to the noble cause I represent
 "The usurped title of the president of the republic cannot invest General mand for reparation on the art of the United States nor the right to grant a satisfaction as due,
 sVictoriano Huerta is a culprit who is amenable to the constitutionalist government today. the only one under the abnormal circumstances of our nation, which represents the national sovereignty in accord with article 12s of the political constitution of Mexi- co. The illegal acts committed by t heusurper Huerta and his partisans and those which they may vet perpe- trate, be they of an international character as those which recently oc- cured at the port of Tampico, or of a domestic character. shall be tried and punished with infiexibility and promptness by the tribunals of the constitutionaJist government.
 Acts of Huerta Not Sufficient Justifi- 7 cation.
 sThe individual acts og -~lyictoriano Huerta never will be sufficient to in- volve the Mexican nation in a disas- trous war with the United States, be- cause there is no solidarity whatso- ever between the so-called govern ment of Victoriano Huerta and the Mexican nation. for the fundamental reasons that he is not the legitimate organ of our national sovereignty.
 Moreover, the invasion of our ter ritory and the pernancy of your forces in the port of Vera Cruz or at viola ton of the rights tht constitute our existence as a free and independent sovereignty and will drag us into ar unequal war with the dignity but which until today we desired to avoid.
 Seizure of Vera Cruz Offensive.
 Tn the face of the real situation through which Mexico traverses weak, more so than ever after three years of bloody strife and compared Witf the formidable power of the Ameri can nation in considering the acts committed at Vera Cruz as acts high. ly offensive to the dignity and inde- pendence of Mexico and contrary to your reiterated declarations of not desiring to sever the state of peace and friendship with the Mexican na- tion of tho rights that constitute our resolution of the American senate which has just declared that the United States does not assume against those exacted by equity. foi the desired end which may be con considered as satisfied.
 It not being on the other part. the usurper who, in all cases should have the right to constitute a reparaxion interpret the sentiment of a greaf majority of the Mexican people. which is so jealous of it's rights and re- sectful of foreign rights. invite you solely to suspend the hostile acts al- ready initiated, ordering your forces