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

Mr. Seward to Mr. Pruyn.

No. 81.]

Department of State, Washington, October 14, 1864.

Sir: With reference to the despatch of Mr. John G. Walsh, United States consul at Nagasaki, No. 19, of July 20th, informing this department of the ill treatment received by the American steamer Monitor from the Japanese authorties in the bay of Fuku-Gawa, in the territory Nagato, I enclose herewith a copy of the order of the President, suspending for the time being the departure of the steam gunboat Fusiyama, built at New York for the Japanese government.

It is to be hoped, however, that you may be able to inform this department of the amicable adjustment of this and other differences existing between the Japanese and the United States governments, so as to enable the President to revoke his order for the suspension of a clearance for the Fusiyama.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

Robert H. Pruyn, Esq., &c., &c., &c.

Executive Order.

Executive Mansion, Washington, October 12, 1864.

The Japanese government having caused the construction at New York of a vessel of war called the Fusiyama, and application having been made for the clearance of the same, in order that it may proceed to Japan, it is ordered, in view of the state of affairs in that country, and of its relations with the United States, that a compliance with the application be for the present suspended.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN.