Letter
William H. Seward to Charles Francis Adams, September 5, 1865
[Extract.]
Mr. Seward to Mr. Adams
No. 1538.]
Department of State, Washington, September 5, 1865.
Sir: * * * * * I have to inform, you by direction of the President, that he will neither make promises nor grant either passports or permits for return to rebels now abroad; applications for pardons will be considered only when the persons making, them are residing in the United States, and, in any case, there must be an unreserved, not a conditional appeal to the mercy and magnanimity of the government.
I am, sir, your obedient servant,
WILLIAM H. SEWARD.
Charles Francis Adams, Esq., &c., &c., &c.
[Same, mutatis mutandis, to all our ministers abroad.]
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U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the First Session Thirty-ninth C.