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

Mr. Seward to Mr. Taylor.

No. 18.]

Department of State, Washington, February 25, 1863.

Sir: Your despatch of January 27 (No. 28) has been received. I thank you most sincerely for the care you have so judiciously bestowed upon the national cause, in translating for the department the article in the Vedomosti, upon the President’s proclamation. It is a paper of marked ability, candor, and foresight. I shall cause it to be published here.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

Bayard Taylor, Esq., &c., &c., &c.