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

Mr. Seward to Mr. Bigelow

No. 426.]

Department of State, Washington, March 23, 1866.

Sir: Your despatch of the 6th instant, No. 282, informing me of the remarks of Mr. Rouher in the “corps legislatif” upon the amendment proposed by a minority to the address to the throne, has been received, and I have, in reply, to inform you that I consider it interesting, as information of a part of the legislative proceedings of France in regard to French intervention in Mexico.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

John Bigelow, Esq., &c., &c., &c.