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

Mr. Harvey to Mr. Seward.

No. 257.]

Legation of the United States, Lisbon, February 1, 1864.

Sir: I have the honor to submit a copy of instructions, which it seemed to me proper to issue to the United States consuls at the Azores, Madeira, and Cape Verde islands, in view of the recent correspondence with this government, and in order also that every means might be exerted to guard, as far as may be practicable, against the threatened dangers to our commerce.

I have the honor to be, sir, your obedient servant,

JAMES E. HARVEY.

Hon. William H. Seward, Secretary of State.