Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Third Session Thirty-seventh Congress

[Translation.]

Mr. Tassara to Mr. Seward.

Legation of Spain in Washington, Washington, September 11, 1862.

The undersigned, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of her Catholic Majesty, has had the honor to receive the note of the honorable Secretary of State, of the 9th instant, in reply to that of the 3d, from this legation, remonstrating against the outrage committed in New Orleans upon the Spanish house of Avendaño and Brothers.

The case is, in truth, serious, and the undersigned hopes that, as the honorable Secretary of State assures him, the government of the United States, once convinced of the ground of the remonstrance, will hasten to do justice. The appointment of the new governor of Louisiana will, without doubt, contribute to the settlement of affairs in New Orleans.

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The undersigned avails himself of this occasion to renew to the honorable Secretary of State the assurance of his most high consideration.

GABRIEL G. TASSARA.

Hon. William H. Seward, Secretary of State of the United States, &c., &c, &c.