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

Mr. Seward to Mr. Bigelow

No. 58.]

Department of State, Washington, March 6, 1865.

Sir: Your despatch of the 10th instant, No. 27, relative to the effects produced by the reading of the encyclical letter of the Pope by certain bishops of France to their congregations, in defiance of the warning issued by the imperial government, has been received. I consider it a very interesting paper upon an important question in the domestic politics of France.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

John Bigelow, Esq., &c., &c., &c.