Letter
Mccormack to Abraham Lincoln, November 28, 1883
[Inclosure in No. 784.]
Mr. McCormack to the President.
People Office, Tipperary, November 28, 1883.
Sir: I beg to inform you that I am a citizen of the United States; I have been incarcerated in a British bastile for nearly five months by the British Government, without knowing for what. My case I shall prove in due course, but in the interval I shall ask you to take the same care of me as has the British Government in the case of the Rev. Mr. Shaw.
In my case you will be good enough to ask of the British Government £10,000, and shall it not be forthcoming in due course, I will have to appeal to my fellow citizens of the United States.
I send a copy of this to Mr. Lowell, and to many of my fellow-citizens at your side of the Atlantic.
I am, &c.,
JOHN R. McCORMACK.
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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.