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

Mr. Seward to Mr. Perry

No. 55.]

Department of State, Washington, December 2, 1864.

Sir: Your despatch of the 22d of November, No. 144, has been received. Your congratulations upon the result of the presidential election are as eloquent as your exposition of its transcendent influence is just and complete.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

Horatio J. Perry, Esq., &c., &c., Madrid.