Woodrow Wilson to Porter James McCumber

Title

Woodrow Wilson to Porter James McCumber

Creator

Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924

Identifier

WWP18319

Date

1914 January 29

Description

Woodrow Wilson writes to Porter J. McCumber about the Mexican embargo.

Source

Wilson Papers, Library of Congress, Library of Congress, Washington, District of Columbia

Subject

Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924--Correspondence

Text

My dear Senator

I value your letter of the twenty-seventh. It is just such frank expressions of opinion that help me most.
I feel very much as you do about the lifting of the embargo but have again and again been driven in my mind to the conclusion that it is an inevitable course of action in the circumstances, but I want to assure you that I have done everything possible to convince myself that the Constitutionalists are coming to a true realization of their public international responsibility as their cause moves forward and that they will henceforth attempt to act, as far as the circumstances of civil war permit, in the spirit of modern regulations. I have sought to assure myself in this matter in many ways because I have felt the burden of the responsibility which you, yourself, suggest in the matter.

With the warmest appreciation of your generous support,
Cordially yours,
Woodrow Wilson


Hon. P. J. McCumber
,United States Senate.

Original Format

Letter

To

McCumber, Porter J. (Porter James), 1858-1933

Files

http://resources.presidentwilson.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Temp00773.pdf

Citation

Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924, “Woodrow Wilson to Porter James McCumber,” 1914 January 29, WWP18319, First Year Wilson Papers, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum, Staunton, Virginia.