Office of the Historian

No. 409.
Mr. Biddle to Mr. Fish.

Legation of the United States,
San Salvador, June 21, 1872. (Received July 18).
No. 60.]

Sir: I have the honor to transmit to you herewith a copy and translation of a proclamation of peace with Honduras, issued within the hour just as the mail is closing, based upon the complete overthrow of General Medina, and the friendly relations between Salvador and the provisional government of Señor Don Celeo Arias.

I am, &c.,

THOS. BIDDLE.
[Translation.]

Manuel Mendez. vice-president of the republic, in the exercise of the executive power, considering—

1st.
That with the disappearing of the government of General Don Jose Maria Medina in Honduras, the republic of Salvador has returned to the tranquillity which that functionary had disturbed with his continued menaces against the autonomy of Salvador.
2d.
That, thanks to the happy termination of the campaign, there has been successfully established in Honduras an orderly government which gives the best guarantees of peace and friendship with this republic.
3d.
That this government saw itself compelled by force of circumstances to declare the republic at war with the ex-government of Honduras, calling all the Salvadoreans to arms, and prohibiting free locomotion without passports from the competent authority, as by the decrees of the 5th and 25th of April last; and
4th.
As now Salvador has no reason to fear for the internal or external peace, I decree:
  • Article 1. The republic of Salvador returns to the condition of peace which had been interrupted by the machinations of the ex-government of Honduras.
  • Article 2. The aforesaid decrees of the 5th and 25th of April last past are abrogated.

Given in the National Palace of San Salvador, the 19th of June, 1872.

  • MANUEL MENDEZ.
  • The Minister of the Interior and Acting Minister of the Treasury and of War,
    Antonio Grimaldi.