Washington, 27 June, ’61.
SIR,—Please send me a passport for Robert Morris, Jr., of Boston, a citizen of the United States.
Faithfully yours,
Charles Sumner.
The Secretary of State.
The passport was duly issued, bearing date June 29, 1861, and Mr. Sumner’s note was filed in the Passport Bureau, being the only paper in the case.
The opinion of the Attorney-General, affirming the citizenship of colored freemen, November 29, 1862,[147] settled this question definitively.