Mavroyeni Bey to Mr. Olney.
Washington, October 12, 1895.
Mr. Secretary of State: The Imperial authorities have sufficiently proved, I think, with what pleasure they welcome the American ships of war in all their visits to the Turkish ports. These visits are, in fact, natural, and they are always friendly. My aim, consequently, in writing this note to your excellency, is simply to contradict, with respect to the sending of the Marblehead, the rumors of the journals of this morning, according to which the security of American citizens in the Turkish provinces is endangered in consequence of the troubles provoked at Constantinople by the revolutionary Armenian committees in pursuance of a plan arranged in advance and fully set forth a short time before these troubles occurred in the journals of the revolutionary Armenian party published in foreign countries.
I can place at your excellency’s disposition whenever you wish the number of the 1st of September, 1895, of the Armenian journal, the Hark, which is published at New York, and which affirmed in advance the troubles at Constantinople just as they did in fact occur one month later.
I think it my duty meanwhile to assure you that in spite of the realization, not only in the provinces but even at Constantinople, of the Armenian revolutionary plan arranged after the mature deliberation of its leaders, the American citizens in Turkey being mindful of the public peace of the country where they reside incur absolutely no danger.
Be pleased to accept, etc.,