Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the First Session Thirty-eighth Congress, Part II

Mr. Seward to Mr. Mercier.

Department of State, Washington, December 16, 1862.

Sir: Referring to my note of the 10th instant, relative to the imprisonment of the Messrs. Lemore, alleged French subjects, residing at New Orleans, I now have the honor to inform you that, by a letter of the 12th instant from the War Department, I learn that General Butler has been instructed to remit the punishment of the ball and chain and hard labor, to which they had been subjected.

Accept, sir, a renewed assurance of my very high consideration.

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

Mr. Henry Mergier, &c., &c., &c.