Mr. Romero to Mr. Seward
Mr. Secretary: I have the honor to acknowledge the reception of the note which you were pleased to address me this day, informing me that the government of the United States intends to furnish me a passage to Mexico in a national steamer, and that the Secretary of the Treasury informs you that the revenue steamer Wilderness will receive instructions to proceed to Charleston, South Carolina, to receive me and my friends for that voyage. You are pleased to add that the Wilderness will be at that port on the 14th instant.
Very grateful for this delicate proof of consideration with which I am honored by the government of the United States, I respectfully inform you that I accept the offer of the passage with great pleasure, arid will be ready at Charleston on the day appointed, to embark with my family and the friends whom I have invited to accompany me.
I have already informed you verbally that I had invited the Hon. Oliver P. Morton, [Page 685] senator from Indiana, and the Hon. Nathaniel P. Banks, member from Massachusetts, to visit Mexico with me. Both gentlemen have accepted my invitation, and in accordance with the permission which you gave me to offer them a passage in the government steamer which is to carry me to my home, I now notify them both by telegraph and mail that the steamer Wilderness will leave Charleston for Vera Cruz on the 14th instant.
I am pleased to have this occasion to renew to you, Mr. Secretary, the assurance of my distinguished consideration.
Hon. William H. Seward, &c., &c., &c.