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. Hoar, Attorney-General, to Mr. Pierrepont, district attorney.

Washington, June 17, 1869.

Sir: The Spanish minister writes to the State Department that an armed expedition for Cuba is fitting out in New York, to sail in a day or two. You will please to use all efforts to prevent it, and instruct the marshal to do the same.

Respectfully, yours, &c.,

E. R. HOAR,
Attorney-General.

Hon. E. Pierrepont,
United States Attorney, New York.