[500] *Mr. Cushing, Attorney General, to Mr. Inge and Mr. Ord, district attorneys.
December 11, 1855.
Sir: I am directed by the President to address you further on the subject of the illegal military enterprises against the State of Nicaragua, which have been and, as it appears, still continue to be carried on from the ports of California. He has perceived with extreme regret that a State with which the United States are at peace, and which on other accounts is entitled to the special good-will of this Government, has thus, in effect, been subjected to invasion.
I am aware of the extreme difficulty of detecting the criminal purpose of any persons engaged in such an undertaking, when they embark without visible organization in passenger steamships plying between San Francisco and San Juan del Sud. But the President expects that, by the exercise of particular vigilance in the matter, you will be able to accomplish the desired object.
Suggestion has been made of some complicity of the Nicaragua Transit Company in these acts, and that point may be entitled to your consideration.
I am, very respectfully,
Hon. S. W. Inge,
Attorney United States, San Francisco, California.
Pacificus Ord, Esq.,
United States Attorney, Monterey.