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

Mr. Seward to Mr. Pike

No. 196.]

Department of State, Washington, November 18, 1864.

Sir: Your despatch of the 2d instant, No. 153, relative to the effect of the recent successes of our armies in the field upon the public sentiment of Europe, has been received, and is highly appreciated. In view of the importance of the subject and of the able manner in which you have treated it I have submitted your despatch to the favorable consideration of the Secretary of the Treasury.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

James Pike, Esq., &c., &c., &c.