DEPARTMENT OF STATE, Washington, April 18, 1862.
Hon. BENJAMIN H.
BREWSTER, Philadelphia.
SIR: I have
received your letter of yesterday stating that by directions of Mr. Simon
Cameron you transmit to me a summons issued out of the supreme court of the
State of Pennsylvania at the suit of Pierce Butler against Mr. Cameron for
trespass, vi et armis, assault and battery and false imprisonment in
causing the arrest of the plaintiff without authority of law.
This communication
has been submitted to the President, and I am directed by him to say in reply
that he avows the proceeding of Mr. Cameron referred to as one taken by him
when Secretary of War under the President's directions and deemed necessary for
the prompt suppression of the existing insurrection.
The President will
at once communicate this correspondence to the Attorney-General of the United
States and also to Congress.
I am, sir, your obedient servant,
WILLIAM
H. SEWARD.
SOURCE: The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of
the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series II, Volume
2 (Serial No. 115), p. 507-8
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