Message of the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress, at the Commencement of the Second Session of the Thirty-seventh Congress

Mr. Brown to Mr. Seward.

[Extract.]

Legation of the United States,
Constantinople, June 11, 1861.

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I do not believe that any agents of the “Confederate States” have, as yet, visited this place, and should any come here that the Porte would admit or recognize them. I receive from H. H. Aali Pacha, minister of foreign affairs, and H. H. Mehemed Kibrish Pacha, grand vizier, repeated assurances of the most friendly sentiments towards the government of the United States, and expressions of warm sympathy for the present unhappy state of popular excitement in the slave States of the Union.

I have the honor to be, sir, respectfully, your obedient servant,

JOHN P. BROWN.

Hon. William H. Seward,
Secretary of State.