Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Second Session of the Fortieth Congress

[Telegram per cable.]

Mr. Dix to Mr. Seward

Legation of the United States, Paris, June 1, 1867.

By special request of the Emperor I use the telegraph to express his earnest wish that the government of the United States will exert all its influence to have Maximilian spared by his captors.

JOHN A. DIX.

Hon. William H. Seward, Secretary of State, Washington, D. C.