Señor Romero to Mr. Seward
Mr. Secretary: I have had the honor to-day of receiving your note of day before yesterday, enclosing the copy of a communication of the 30th ultimo from the War Department to you, with a copy of General Weitzel’s report in relation to certain goods taken by Mexican forces at the mouth of the Rio Bravo, and confiscated in Clarksville, State of Texas, to which subject I alluded in my three notes of the 30th and 31st of March last to your department.
I send a copy to-day, with a translation of your note and the accompanying documents to the Mexican government, that in view of them it may determine what is most convenient. Yet, as I would like to have further information of what occurred in this case, I think it well to accept the suggestion made by General Weitzel in his report, to ask a report of the facts of the case of Mr. Charles Worthington, collector of customs at Brownsville, who was eyewitness to the occurrences. This will be the more easy to obtain, as I learn that Mr. Worthington is now in Georgetown, District of Columbia.
From the slight knowledge that General Weitzel seems to have of the facts, the information of persons better acquainted with them seems desirable.
I embrace the occasion to renew to you, Mr. Secretary, the assurance of my most distinguished consideration.
Hon. William H. Seward, &c., &c., &c.