Letter : Washington, D.C., to Arthur G. Coffin ... [et al.], Philadelphia, 1861 June 4.

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Letter : Washington, D.C., to Arthur G. Coffin ... [et al.], Philadelphia, 1861 June 4.

Letter signed. Signed by William H. Seward. Seward writes that the State Department has no further information regarding foreign governments' opening their ports to privateers that attack U.S. interests.

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