Letter
BRECKINRIDGE, Assistant Special Agent to Salmon P. Chase, June 2, 1864
Mr. Breckinridge to Mr. Chase
Treasury Department, Washington, June 2, 1864.
Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your favor of the 1st, enclosing a communication from the Hon. Secretary of State, together with the memorandum from the chargé d’affaires of France.
I left Brownsville, Texas, about the 7th ultimo. Up to that time no goods contraband of war had been sent into Mexico or sold to the agents of the Mexican government
I do not know of a single article contraband of war having come to the port of Brazos de Santiago, and feel sure that trade in contraband goods could not exist, even to a very limited extent, without my knowledge. Respectfully, &c.,
G. W. BRECKINRIDGE, Assistant Special Agent.
Hon. S. P. Chase, Secretary of the Treasury.
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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.