Letter

EVARTS, Attorney-General to S. G. Courtney, November 14, 1868

Mr. Evarts, Attorney-General, to Mr. Courtney, district attorney.

[23] Sir: I desire to ask your immediate attention to an article in the New York Commercial Advertiser of November 10th instant, relative to rumors of a projected expedition against Cuba, with some supposed object of annexation of that *island to the United States.

Such expeditions are in violation of our neutrality laws, and I beg that you will give the subject immediate attention, and report to me the result of your inquiries during my expected visit to the city of New York.

I am, very respectfully, yours, &c.,

WM. M. EVARTS,
Attorney-General.

S. G. Courtney, Esq., United States Attorney, New York City.

Sources
FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress with the Annual Message of the Pr View original source ↗
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 Pr.