William H Seward to Franklin Chase, March 26, 1867

Mr. Seward to Mr. Chase

Sir: I have received through the hands of the United Slates minister to Mexico, now at New Orleans, a communication which you addressed to him on the 11th of February last, together with a memorial addressed to the United States government from certain authorities aud generals of the district of Tampico de Tamaulipas. In that paper the memorialists ask this government to loan them $5,000,000, and to place two armed steamers in Mexican ports for communication with New Orleans and New York.

II. The United States are solicited to render these aids as an act of intervention in support of the President, and against the armed insurgents of that republic.

This government has, throughout the whole of the recent distractions in Mexico, declined to hold intercourse with any party in that country other than the constituted national authorities, and with them only in the regular forms of international correspondence.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,