Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the First Session Thirty-eighth Congress, Part II

[Extract.]

Mr. Boernstein to Mr. Seward.

No. 89.]

Consulate of the United States of America, Bremen, September 13, 1862.

Sir: This consulate is daily crowded with men wishing to enlist in our army.

Having received no orders to this effect from the department, I am bound to send them off again.

Could no arrangement he made to send those men to the States free of charge, as emigrants? Some of them are even willing to have the travelling expenses deducted from the bounty or wages. Had I authority, I could have sent a few brigades to the States already. * * * * * *

I am, sir, very respectfully, your most obedient servant,

CHARLES BOERNSTEIN, United States Vice-Consul, Bremen.

Hon. William H. Seward, Secretary of State, Washington.