JOHN WAEREN, Citizen of the United States to Andrew Johnson, August 3, 1867

Letter to the President.

Dear Sir: I most respectfully call your Excellency’s attention to my case. By birth an Irishman, by adoption an American citizen. Here is a member of the press, collecting notes, coupled with the desire to see the old scenes, and to meet the old friends of my boyhood, and near and dear relatives. I was arrested on the 1st of June, and have since been closely confined in silence and solitude. I have violated no English law. No evidence has been advanced against me. I have repeatedly demanded my release, or an immediate trial; and now, as an American citizen and a freeman, ask your Excellency’s interposition in my behalf, to obtain a right (my freedom) which England has no power to take, and which claims your Excellency’s protection. My friends will place my case more fully before your Excellency.

I am your Excellency’s faithful friend,