CHARLES GREEN, President of the Chamber of Commerce of Savannah to Richard Lyons, 1st Viscount Lyons, January 19, 1865

Mr. Green to Lord Lyons

My Lord: In the absence of the usual consular facilities for communicating with yon, I am urged by the British residents here to repeat that their property in cotton falls daily into worse position. You are aware it has all been seized by the military, who not only forbid the owners the privilege of marking the bales at the time they are taken away, but refuse to allow the owners or their clerks to be present in the warehouses, and decline to give any receipt or record of the property they take away. The interests at stake are so large that the necessity of vouchers for the cotton is pressing, and the British subjects here solicit your excellency’s interference with the American government hereupon.

I remain, &c., &c.,