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BARROWS, United States Consul to Mr. McCormack, February 24, 1882
[Inclosure 2 in No. 350.]
Mr. Barrows to Mr. McCormack.
Consulate of the United States, Dublin, February 24, 1882.
Sir: I am in receipt of yours of the 23d, and in reply beg to inform you that the fact of your being an American citizen confers upon you no immunity from arrest and imprisonment under the coercion act. The minister can interfere only:
- When such person being in Ireland in the prosecution of his lawful private business, and taking no part in political meetings or partisan disturbances, has been arrested by obvious mistake; or,
- When a distinction has been made to the disadvantage of the prisoner on the ground of his American nationality.
The above are the decisions of Minister Lowell, under whose instructions I am acting. Should there be a peculiar hardship in your case, not affected by these decisions, please submit all the facts in the case, together with evidence of your American citizenship, and the matter shall have my prompt attention
I remain. &c.,
B. H. BARROWS,
United States Consul.
United States Consul.
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U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the P.