Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 5, 1898

Mr. Eguiguren to Mr. Sherman.

Legation of Peru,
Washington, February 17, 1898.

Sir: I perform the duty of expressing to the United States Government the sentiments of condolence and sympathy of the Government of Peru, together with my own, on account of the catastrophe which has befallen the war steamer Maine and the loss of the lives of so many citizens of the United States.

Peru, which considers all the Republics of this continent as her sisters, laments their misfortunes and feels them as she does her own. The grief, therefore, which now afflicts the Great Republic is also ours.

I reiterate, etc.,

Victor Eguiguren.