Boston, October 11, 1851.
MY DEAR SIR,—I give
this to Mr. Cook, a gentleman from Alabama, who brings very respectable letters
from Mr. Hilliard and others. These letters he wishes you to read. His object
is to solicit the aid of the government in favor of his son, one of the Cuban prisoners,
now on his way to Spain.
I have given him a
private and unofficial note of introduction to Mr. Calderon, to whom I have
advised him to show his letters, after you shall have read them.
Of course, we can do
nothing officially for any one of these prisoners, which we do not do for all.
Yours, always truly,
DAN'L WEBSTER.
SOURCE: Fletcher
Webster, Editor, The Private Correspondence of Daniel Webster, Vol.
2, pp. 477
No comments:
Post a Comment