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

[Extract.]

Mr. Seward to Mr. Terry

No. 105.]

Department of State, Washington, July 6, 1865.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch, No 205, of the 5th of June with its accompaniment, a copy of the Gaceta de Madrid of the 6th of the same month.

Your proceedings in submitting the President’s proclamation of May 10 to Mr. Benavides are approved, and I have now to express on behalf of the President the satisfaction with which he has learned of the prompt withdrawal by the Spanish government of the belligerent character with which it had heretofore most unnecessarily invested the rebels.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

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