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. Bigelow

No. 404.]

Department of State, Washington, March 2, 1866.

Sir: Your despatch of February 8, No. 264, has been received. It recites the passages which are of chief interest to the United States in the reply proposed by the senate commission in France to the discourse which the Emperor pronounced at the opening of the legislature. Your comments upon those passages are deemed just and proper; nevertheless, the passages themselves are not regarded as requiring especial remark from this department at the present time.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

John Bigelow, Esq., &c.