General Sickles to Mr. Fish
Sir: The following is a transcript of a telegraphic dispatch forwarded from this legation at 7 o’clock this evening:
Hamilton Fish, Secretary of State, Washington:
Your instructions through Motley are received. Interview with minister to-day by appointment. He anticipated the object of my visit, and stated that the action of this government on our reclamations had been unavoidably delayed because he had not yet received necessary information from Cuba, which had been diligently sought by telegraph. I again and earnestly urged prompt action, in conformity with your views. Minister said that he would not wait longer for colonial reports, but would at once answer my note of October 14. The minister’s silence about the tenor of this reply seems significant.
SICKLES,
Madrid, November 24.
A copy of this dispatch goes by mail to Mr. Motley, for transmission by telegraph from London.
I am, &c.,