(d) The agreement of all parties to abide by the results of the
     election and cooeperate in the most loyal way in organizing and
     supporting the new administration.

The Government of the United States will be glad to play any part in this settlement or in its carrying out which it can play honorably and consistently with international right.  It pledges itself to recognize and in every way possible and proper to assist the administration chosen and set up in Mexico in the way and on the conditions suggested.

Taking all the existing conditions into consideration, the Government of the United States can conceive of no reasons sufficient to justify those who are now attempting to shape the policy or exercise the authority of Mexico in declining the offices of friendship thus offered.  Can Mexico give the civilized world a satisfactory reason for rejecting our good offices?  If Mexico can suggest any better way in which to show our friendship, serve the people of Mexico, and meet our international obligations, we are more than willing to consider the suggestion.

Mr. Lind executed his delicate and difficult mission with singular tact, firmness, and good judgment, and made clear to the authorities at the City of Mexico not only the purpose of his visit but also the spirit in which it had been undertaken.  But the proposals he submitted were rejected, in a note the full text of which I take the liberty of laying before you.

I am led to believe that they were rejected partly because the authorities at Mexico City had been grossly misinformed and misled upon two points.  They did not realize the spirit of the American people in this matter, their earnest friendliness and yet sober determination that some just solution be found for the Mexican difficulties; and they did not believe that the present administration spoke, through Mr. Lind, for the people of the United States.  The effect of this unfortunate misunderstanding on their part is to leave them singularly isolated and without friends who can effectually aid them.  So long as the misunderstanding continues we can only await the time of their awakening to a realization of the actual facts.  We cannot thrust our good offices upon them.  The situation must be given a little more time to work itself out in the new circumstances; and I believe that only a little while will be necessary.  For the circumstances are new.  The rejection of our friendship makes them new and will inevitably bring its own alterations in the whole aspect of affairs.  The actual situation of the authorities at Mexico City will presently be revealed.