Mr. Seward to Mr. Plumb.
Sir: During the last two weeks the press has published telegraphic dispatches, which seem to have come from Monterey, in Mexico, and which give information of gross indignities alleged to have been practiced at that place upon several citizens of the United States residing or sojourning there. Our first official and authentic information upon the subject was received this morning in three written dispatches from the United States consul at Monterey, of the dates respectively of the 23d and 26th of April, and the 6th of May.
[Page 465]By those papers I learn that the proceedings complained of have been made the subject of investigation by the judicial authorities of Monterey, and further, that full accounts of the transactions in question were furnished to you immediately after their occurrence.
Presuming that you have already taken proper measures concerning the transactions complained of, I await with considerable solicitude your report thereupon.
I am, sir, your obedient servant,
Edward L. Plumb, Esq., &c., &c., &c.