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

The Minister of Foreign Affairs to the French Minister at Washington.

Paris, May 30, 1865.

Monsieur le Marquis: I have seen with pleasure the assurances which the President of the United States gave to you of his personal desire to keep the best relations with us. I am pleased in thinking that we shall find the proof of those sentiments, so conformable to ours, in the measures which the federal government will take in order to stop the announced enlistments in behalf of Juarez, and to discourage all attempts of that kind.

Accept, &c.,

DROUYN DE LHUYS.