Letter

Henri Mercier to William H. Seward, December 5, 1863

Mr. Mercier to Mr. Seward

Sir: I have the honor to transmit to your excellency, and recommend to the examination of the federal government, a complaint which has been addressed to me by Mr. Lange, a French subject, resident at New Orleans, and which has relation to a serious injury which had been caused him by the forcible detention at that port of the schooner Allison, cleared for Matamoras, and detained by higher authority.

HENRI MERCIER.

Hon. William H. Seward, Secretary of State.

Sources
FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Second 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 Second Session Thirty-eighth.