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. Perry

No. 109.]

Department of State, Washington, September 20, 1865.

Sir: Your interesting despatch dated at San Sebastian on the 29th of last month has been received, and has been read with much satisfaction. We are content to believe that Spain, in retiring completely and definitively from the island of San Domingo, has been actuated by a just regard for her own best interests and those of the Dominican people.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

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