Seward could have been a member of today's MSM.
DEPARTMENT OF STATE, Washington, September 17, 1861.
JOHN A. KENNEDY, Esq.,
Superintendent of Police, New York.
DEAR SIR: I have received your letter of the 14th, relative to the National Zeitung and M. C. Stanley. In reply I have to state that if you will furnish me with the names of one or two persons whose arrest would be likely to produce a proper effect upon the course of that paper I will communicate a decision upon the subject.
I am, very truly, yours,
WILLIAM H. SEWARD
Which cases were which?
"In reply I have to state that if you will furnish me with the names of one or two persons whose arrest would be likely to produce a proper effect upon the course of that paper I will communicate a decision upon the subject."
What was that decision? Was anyone actually arrested?