Letter from William H. Aspinwall to Gideon Welles, May 29, 1865

Letter from William H. Aspinwall to Gideon Welles, May 29, 1865

Paris, May 29, 1865. . . . We have been made aware, by the debates in Parliament and otherwise, that there is no public prosecutor in England, even for the most dangerous crimes against society, and consequently no officer whose business it is, upon reasonable suspicion, to protect us against the infraction of their foreign enlistment act. . . .