Letter

Charles R. Lowell to Granville Leveson-Gower, March 28, 1882

Author

Charles R. Lowell

Recipient

Granville Leveson-Gower

Date

March 28, 1882

Type

Letter

Language

English

[Inclosure 1 in No. 346.]

Mr. Lowell to Lord Granville.

Legation of” the United States, London, March 28, 1882.

My Lord: I have the honor to acquaint you that I have to-day received a dispatch from Mr. Frelinghuysen instructing me to inquire into the circumstances attending the arrest of Mr. James L. White, a naturalized American citizen, who has been for some months imprisoned in Naas jail in Ireland under the so-called “coercion act” on a charge of being reasonably suspected” of offenses against this act.

Mr. N. P. Hill, a Senator of the United States from the State of Colorado, has represented to the Secretary that Mr. White was for two years a member of the city council of Denver in that State, and is said to be a peaceable, quiet man, well disposed toward good government. He left Denver about the 22d day of July, 1878, and returned to Ireland for the purpose of visiting his aged father and staying with him, the remainder of his life. Very respectable persons in Denver offer to vouch for the intelligence, sobriety, and integrity of Mr. White.

I have the honor to ask your lordship that inquiries may be made into the circumstances attending the arrest of Mr. White, and if it shall appear that there has been any mistake or undue severity in his case that he may be released or granted a speedy trial.

I have, &c.,

J. B. LOWELL.

Topics

19th Century Diplomacy Reconstruction

Sources

FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the P 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 P.