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

Mr. Seward to Mr. Romero

Department of State, Washington, July 27, 1864.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your verbal note of the ninth instant, enclosing an extract from the New York Tribune, which contains an account of the reception given to Don Santiago Vidaurri, late governor of the states of New Leon and Coahuila, (Mexico,) at San Antonio, on the 20th May last, by General Magruder, commanding the insurgent army in Texas.

While thanking you for that attention, I beg to renew to you, sir, the assurances of my high consideration.

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

Señor Matias Romero, &c., &c., &c., Washington, D. G.