HOAR, Attorney-General to Edwards Pierrepont , United States Attorney, New York City, July 12, 1869

Mr. Hoar, Attorney-General, to Mr. Pierrepont, district attorney.

Sir: Your two letters of the 9th were received on the 10th, and in reply I directed you by telegraph of that date to allow the persons referred to in your letter, who are imprisoned in default of bail, to be discharged upon their own recognizance. I believe that nothing else in your communication requires a reply, except to say that it is still the desire of the President that you should use every effort to arrest and punish those who resisted the marshal’s officers, and to ascertain, if possible, who were the writers of the threatening letters to members of the grand jury, and see that justice is meted out to them therefor.

Very respectfully,