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

[Translation.]

Mr. Tassara to Mr. Seward

Legation of Spain at Washington, Washington, November 22, 1865.

Sir: The undersigned, minister plenipotentiary of her Catholic Majesty, has had the honor of receiving the honorable Secretary’s note of the 21st, in reply to his of the 15th, on Chilian affairs, and will transmit it to his government, whose prudent deliberation on the cause that led to the rupture, to its great regret, is well known to the United States.

The undersigned embraces this occasion to offer to the honorable Secretary the assurances of his high consideration.

GABRIEL G. TASSARA.

The Hon. Secretary of State of the United States, &c., &c., &c.,