Mr. Seward to Mr. Tassara
The undersigned, Secretary of State of the United States, has the honor to acknowledge the receipt of Mr. Tassara’s note of the 16th instant, and to express his satisfaction with the assurances given by Mr. Tassara, as well as by the captain general of Cuba, a copy of whose communication upon the subject accompanied the note of Mr. Tassara, that proper efforts will be made by her Catholic Majesty’s authorities in the island of Cuba to frustrate, within their jurisdiction, insurgent schemes similar to that to which attention was called in the note addressed by the undersigned to Mr. Tassara on the 21st ultimo, having for their object the seizure, plunder, and destruction of American steamers and other vessels.
Accepting these gratifying declarations with the implicit confidence to which they are entitled, the undersigned avails himself of the occasion to offer to Mr. Tassara renewed assurances of his very high consideration.
Señor Don Gabriel Garcia y Tassara, &c., Washington