# Governor Nicholls to Mr. Blaine, telegram, New Orleans, 16 March 1891 (FRUS 1891, Document 623)

Canonical: https://mobfiles.org/items/frus-1891-d623-nicholls-blaine-1891-03-16/

Governor Nicholls's reply to Blaine's telegram of 15 March: everything is now quiet, he anticipates no further trouble, and 'the recent action was directed against particular individuals; their race or nationality was not a factor in the disturbance.'

Document 623 is Governor Francis T. Nicholls's reply to Blaine. He writes that "everything is now quiet here," that he anticipates no further trouble, and that "the recent action was directed against particular individuals; their race or nationality was not a factor in the disturbance."

The statement is the governor's characterization, made two days after the killings. It is quoted as the official reply on record and is not endorsed; the Italian consul's telegram and the Blaine telegram on the preceding days take the opposite view of the victims.

## Sources

- U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian, Foreign Relations of the United States, 1891: https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1891/d623