Letter

FRUS Document (frus1863p1)

E.

Sir: I have seen the president since my
interview with yourself and Mr. Giles this morning, and having taken
into consideration your explanations in relation to your interview with
Mr. Oldham, and the other facts stated by you, the president is
satisfied that your conversation with Mr. Oldham was not prompted by any
hostility to this government, and that you are not connected with the
intrigue known to exist having for its object to induce the withdrawal
of the State of Texas from this confederacy. You will therefore consider
the order to depart from the confederacy as withdrawn, and you will
remain at liberty to reside here as heretofore.

Your obedient servant,

J. P. BENJAMIN, Secretary of
State.

Monsieur Taboulle,
at French Consulate, Richmond.

Sources
FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the First Session Thirty-eighth View original source ↗
U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the First Session Thirty-eighth .