William H. Seward to Edward L. Plumb, June 26, 1868

Mr. Seward to Mr. Plumb.

Sir: Your dispatch No. 131, of the 20th ultimo, relative to the outrage inflicted upon six citizens of the United States at Monterey, on the 22d of April, has been received. The instructions which you say you await upon the subject have in part been anticipated by the communication to you from the department, No. 61, of the 23d ultimo.

No report of the close of the investigation of the case to which Mr. Lerdo de Tejada refers in his letter to the governor of New Leon, of the 9th of May, has yet reached here. If that report should come to your knowledge and should show that any person subject to the control of the Mexican government has been guilty of a delay or denial of justice to the citizens of the United States referred to, it is expected that that person will in some signal way be made sensible of the displeasure of that government.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,