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

[Extract.]

Mr. Seward to Mr. Dayton.

No. 429.]

Department of State, Washington, November 10, 1863.

Sir: I find here, on my return from Auburn, your two despatches, one of October 22, (No. 367,) the other of October 23, (No. 368,) together with a copy of Mr. Drouyn de l’Huys’s note, which announces the withdrawal of the authorization that had been imprudently granted to Mr. Arman for building the ironclads which he designed for the enemies of the United States.

You will express to Mr. Drouyn de l’Huys the satisfaction with which the President regards this wise and just proceeding—a proceeding equally honorable to France, and loyal to the relations existing between that country and the United States.

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I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

William L. Dayton, Esq., &c., &c., &c.