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 20th instant, respecting the steamer Cherokee which left Boston on the 15th instant, and, in reply, to transmit to him a copy of a letter of the 19th instant, addressed to the undersigned by the attorney of the United States for the district of Massachusetts, from which it appears conclusively that no laxity of the neutrality law of the United States has been practiced or permitted in the case of the departure of the Cherokee.
The undersigned offers to Mr. Tassara renewed assurances of his highest consideration.
Señor Don Gabriel Garcia y Tassara, &c., &c., &c.