Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the First Session Thirty-ninth Congress

Mr. Seward to Mr. Bigelow

No. 312.]

Department of State, Washington, November 18, 1865.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch of the 28th October, No. 193, together with the two manuscript volumes which are therein mentioned. Into these volumes have been collected the generous tributes which were spontaneously made by the press of France to the character of Abraham Lincoln, and the cause in which his life was sacrificed, when he was removed from his field of eminent service by the fearful and mysterious crime of assassination. It was a very just and happy thought on your part to make this collection, which is so honorable to France, and so entirely in harmony with the geniality of sentiment which distinguishes the French people. The volumes will be preserved in the archives of this government.

The President is of opinion that an acknowledgment of these tributes would be eminently just and proper. I have therefore to suggest to you the publication of this despatch if, upon an informal consultation with Mr. Drouyn de Lhuys, it should be found that such a publication would be agreeable to the Emperor’s government.

A list of the contents of the volumes is appended to this communication.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

Mr. Bigelow.

Contents of Volume 1.

NEWSPAPERS.

Avenir National, L’; Constitutionnel, Le; Débats. Le; Epoque, L’; France, La; Gazette de France, La; Monde, Le; Moniteur Universel, Le: Opinion Nationale, L’; Patrie, La; Pays, Le; Presse, La; Siecle, Le; Temps, Le; Union, L’.

NAMES OF AUTHORS.

Aucaine, Felix; Bonneau, Alexander; Boucherie, C.; Carnot, P.; Claveau, A.; Cohen, J.; Delore, Faxile; Dréolle, Ernest; Escande, A.; Le Francois, A,; Gaiffe, A.; Gauthaic, A.; Girardin, Emile de; Guerault, R. D.; Galluad, E. G.; Isambert, Gustave; Janicot, Gustave; Jauvet, George; Julland, F. B.; Labbie, J.; Ladet, Ulysse; Laurentie; Legault, L.; Limayrac, Paulin; Mahias, J.; Malespine, A.; Martin, Henri; Mason; Moreau, Henri; Neff-tyer, A.; Paradol, Prevost; Perrin, Joseph; Peyrat, A.; Plee, Leon; Renauld, A.; Raineey, Henri de; Sanford, H. S.; Simon, Edouard; Texier, Edmond; Vermorel, A.; Voiseau, A.; Vrignault, H.

Contents of Volume 2.

NEWSPAPERS.

Avenir National; Constitutionnel, Le; Epoque, L’; Gazette de France; Journal des Débats; La France; Monde, Le; Moniteur, Le; Opinion Nationale; Patrie, Le; Presse, La; Revue des Deux Mondes; Temps, Le; Union, L’.

NAMES OF AUTHORS.

Assolant, Alfred; Baratón, J,; Beauer, E.; Bedolliére, Emile de la; Bonneau, Alexandre; Camus, F.; Carfort, Adde; Cassiniss; Cohen, J.; Dearfort, A.; Denise, E.; Didefiis, L.; Dreolle, Ernest; Duboil, René; Escaude, A.; Felix, Eveque d’Orleans; Feydeau, Ernest; Foucault, Aubry; Gaiffe, A.; Gaillard, Leopold; Graudguillot, A.; Gullaud, E. B.; Isam-bert, Gustave; Jaubert, Georges; Jnip, Jules; Labbé, J.; Ladet, Ulysse; Laurentie; Lavergne, Bernard; Lavertigen, André; Le Francois, A.; Lemoine, J.; Limayrac, Paulin; Loek, Frederick; Luca, Francois; Mabias, J.; Malespine, A.; Nefftyer, A.; Paulin, A.; Perrin, Joseph; Peyrat, A.; Pruvet, EL.; Regnault, Elias; Reynould, A.; Taconet, Eugene; Voiseau, A.