It will still remain for each government to revise, execute, and make
more effectual its own municipal laws against its subjects or citizens
who shall be concerned in, or in any way give aid or countenance to
others concerned in this traffic.
You are at liberty to make the contents of this despatch known to the
French government.
I have, &c.
DANIEL WEBSTER.
LEWIS CASS, ESQ., &c., &c., &c.
* * * * *
_Mr. F. Webster to General Cass._
Department of State, Washington,
October 11, 1842.
Sir,--I have to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch of the 17th of
September last, requesting permission to return home.
I have submitted the despatch to the President, and am by him directed
to say, that although he much regrets that your own wishes should, at
this time, terminate your mission to the court of France, where for a
long period you have rendered your country distinguished service, in all
instances to its honor and to the satisfaction of the government, and
where you occupy so favorable a position, from the more than ordinary
good intelligence which is understood to subsist between you,
personally, and the members of the French government, and from the
esteem entertained for you by its illustrious head; yet he cannot refuse
your request to return once more to your home and your country, so that
you can pay that attention to your personal and private affairs which
your long absence and constant employment in the service of your
government may now render most necessary.
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