Letter
Judah P. Benjamin to Acting Consul Walker, October 8, 1863
[Enclosure 1 in No. 8.]
Mr. Benjamin to Acting Consul Walker.
Department of State, Richmond, October 8, 1863.
Sir: For the reasons expressed in the enclosed copy of a letter from this department to the acting British consul at Savannah, I have to convey to you the orders of the president that you promptly withdraw from the confederacy, and that in the mean time you cease to exereise any consular functions within its limits.
I am, &c.,
J. P. BENJAMIN, Secretary of State.
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FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Second Session Thirty-eighth
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U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Second Session Thirty-eighth.