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

Office of the Attorney of the United States for the Southern District of California,
Los Angeles, February 16, 1856.

[513] Sir: I have had the honor to receive your letter of the *10th of December last, calling my special attention, by direction of the President, to the subject of the preparations being made in various ports of the United States to recruit men for the invasion of the state of Nicaragua, or otherwise taking part in military operations there, and desiring me to take measures to detect and defeat all such enterprises, and to bring the parties guilty to punishment, and to give seasonable notice if in any case occasion should arise for the exercise of the direct authority of the President.

I shall use all due diligence to carry out the instructions of the President in the premises.

Your obedient servant,

P. ORD,
District Attorney.

Hon. Caleb Cushing,
Attorney-General United States.