Mr. Burnley to Mr. Seward
Washington,
January 30, 1865.
Sir: I have the honor to enclose copy of a
letter which I have received from Mr. Charles Green, as president of the
Chamber of Commerce of Savannah, and beg you to take it into immediate
consideration, in connexion with what I had the honor of bringing to
your notice on the 23d instant.
Hoping to have soon the answer requested in my above-mentioned note, I
have the honor to be, with the highest consideration, sir, your most
obedient, humble servant,
Hon. William H. Seward,
&c., &c., &c.
Mr. Green to Lord Lyons
Savannah Chamber of
Commerce,
January 19, 1865.
My Lord: In the absence of the usual
consular facilities for communicating with yon, I am urged by the
British residents here to repeat that their property in cotton falls
daily into worse position. You are aware it has all been seized by
the military, who not only forbid the owners the privilege of
marking the bales at the time they are taken away, but refuse to
allow the owners or their clerks to be present in the warehouses,
and decline to give any receipt or record of the
property they take away. The interests at stake are so
large that the necessity of vouchers for the cotton is pressing, and
the British subjects here solicit your excellency’s interference
with the American government hereupon.
I remain, &c., &c.,
CHARLES GREEN, President of the Chamber of
Commerce of Savannah.
His Excellency Lord Lyons.
