Mr. Kreismann to Mr. Seward.
Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your despatches Nos. 13 and 14, dated August 12 and 20, 1864, respectively. Your directions regarding the language of ministerial organs towards the United States are duly noted.
In politics here everything is quiet, but the question of re-establishment of the German Zollverein on the basis of the treaty entered into with France, and the future commercial relations of Austria towards the Zollverein thus reconstituted, largely occupy the public. I intend to furnish the department, for publication in the annual volume on the commercial relations of the United States, a full and detailed account of all these questions, together with a statement of the commerce of Prussia, and the state of the Zollverein, as well as of the new tariff adopted, and hence refrain from enlarging upon the matter here.
The peace conference at Vienna makes slow progress, and apprehensions lest it separate without result are arising. I deem them unfounded. Denmark, weakened and forsaken by France and England, is at the mercy of her two conquerors, and must do their biddings. * * * *
I am, sir, your obedient servant,
Hon. William H. Seward, Secretary of State, Washington, D. C.