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

Mr. Seward to Mr. Dayton

No. 465.]

Department of State, Washington, January 26, 1864.

Sir: Referring to my instruction of the 16th instant, No. 461, I have to inform you that, under the date of the 31st ultimo, Mr. Lane, the consul of the United States at Vera Cruz, writes that on that date he had received a verbal communication from Mr. Mansfield, the consul at Tabasco, confirming the report that he is in prison there, and allowed no means of communicating with his friends, and that his sentence is a year’s imprisonment.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

William L. Dayton Esq., &c., &c., &c.