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International IncidentAuthor(s): RudiniSource: Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association, Vol. 9, No. 3(Summer, 1968), p. 228Published by: Louisiana Historical AssociationStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4231018 .
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INTERNATIONAL INCIDENT
The lynchings at New Orleans involving Italian nationals sparked an international incident. The following telegram initiated an intensive investigation of the "Italian problem" in Louisiana:
From Marquise Rudini to the Unfited States State Department
Telegram Rome March 24 1891
Italien Minister Washington
Our requests to the Federal Government are very simple. Some Italien Subjects acquitted by the American Magistrates have been murdered in prison while under the immediate protection of the authorities. Our right therefore to demand and obtain the punishment of the murderers, and an indemnity for the victims is unquestionable. I wish to add that the public opinion in Italy is justly impatient, and if concrete provisions were not at once taken, I should find myself in the painful necessity of showing openly our dissatisfaction by re- calling the Minister of His Majesty from a country where he is unable to obtain justice.
Rudini
From House Documents, Foreign Relations of the United States, 1st. Session of 52d Congress, 1891, Vol. I, p. 678 (facing page).
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