Letter
Charles R. Lowell to Henry O’mahoney, July 19, 1881
[Inclosure 25 in No. 331.]
Mr. Lowell to Mr. O’Mahoney.
Legation of the United States, London, July 19, 1881.
Sir: I have your letter of the 15th instant. I am waiting instructions from home before taking action in such cases as yours.
It is my opinion, however, and in this I shall probably be sustained by the Department of State, that the fact of being an American citizen cannot of itself operate to exempt any one from the penalties of a law which he had violated, and that it will be necessary to show that some exceptional injustice had been practiced in any particular case before the American minister can be called upon to intervene.
I am, sir, your obedient servant,
J. R. LOWELL.
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