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

Mr. Seward to Mr. Sanford.

No. 143.]

Department of State, Washington , August 26, 1864.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch of August 12, No. 209, and it gives me much pleasure to learn that the elections which necessarily followed a legislative crisis have been conducted with good order, and that the results are deemed auspicious to the stability and welfare of the kingdom.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

Henry S. Sanford, Esq., &c., &c., &c., Brussels.