[Extract.]
Mr. Clay to Mr.
Seward.
No. 63.]
Legation of the United States at the
Republic of Honduras,
Tegucigalpa,
May 25, 1866.
Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the
receipt of your No. 43, containing a sealed letter from the President of
the United States to President Medina
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of this republic, which shall be delivered
according to your instructions. I also received proclamation by the
President of the United States of the 2d April, declaring the
insurrection at an end in certain States of the Union.
* * * * * * * * *
I enclose translated copy of a note received from the minister of foreign
relations of this republic, in answer to one I addressed to him, a copy
of which I forwarded to you by the last steamer.
I have the honor to be, respectfully, your obedient servant,
Hon. William H. Seward,
Secretary of State, Washington, D. C.
[Translation.]
Mr. Leiva to Mr. Clay.
Sir: I have the honor to advise you of the
receipt of your esteemed despatch of the 19th instant, which I have
placed in the hands of his Excellency the President of the republic,
in which you kindly make known that General Don José Maria Medina,
having been constitutionally elected President of the republic, the
objections to the acknowledgment of his provisional administration
have ceased to exist.
His Excellency is greatly pleased at the continuation of the good and
amicable relations of his government with that of the United States,
and with the congratulations which you, as representative of that
powerful country, have the kindness to address to him upon the
occasion of his assuming the supreme command of the republic.
I am, sir, with distinguished consideration, your most respectful and
obedient servant,
Hon Thomas H. Clay,
Minister and Plenipotentiary of the United
States in this Republic.
