Mr. Seward to Mr. Boernstein.
Sir: Your despatch of September 13 (No. 89) has been received. The War Department has been consulted heretofore concerning the offer of inducements to foreign officers and soldiers to migrate and join our armies. But it has thus far found no such necessity for a measure of this kind, as would overbalance the inconveniences and annoyances which might result from it. The country presents inducements to emigrants, as well in military as in civil life, but it is in no such straits as to require extraordinary efforts or sacrifices to promote such an immigration. All that seems necessary for our representatives abroad to do is to direct attention to such social facts as are, or ought to be, universally known.
I am, sir, your obedient servant,
Charles Boernstein, Esq., United States Vice-Consul, Bremen.