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

Mr. Seward to Mr. Pike

No. 219.]

Department of State, Washington, April 4, 1865.

Sir: Your despatch of the 15th of March, No. 157, has been received. The reaction of European opinion in regard to the United States, which you have announced as having begun with the success of Major General Sherman’s campaign, will doubtlessly be accelerated by the intelligence which I have now the pleasure to communicate, that Petersburg and Richmond this morning yielded before the advance of Lieutenant General Grant.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

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