Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress with the Annual Message of the President, December 2, 1872, Part II, Volume I

Mr. Cushing, Attorney-General, to Mr. McKeon, district attorney.

Attorney-General’s Office, April 25, 1855.

Sir: The Secretary of State having referred me to your letter of the 24th instant, with its inclosures, I have taken the directions of the President on the subject, and in accordance therewith have to request you to institute legal proceedings against *Colonel Kinney and the steamer United States, provided, in, your judgment, the evidence accessible will suffice to afford probable cause. [179]

I have the honor to be, &c., &c.,

C. CUSHING.

John McKeon, Esq.,
United States District Attorney, New York.

P. S.—Since writing the above, I have seen the letter of Mr. Fabens in the New York Herald of yesterday, which seems to require that he be proceeded against equally with Colonel Kenney.

C. C.