Mr. Romero to Mr. Seward
My Dear Mr. Seward: I have had the honor to receive your esteemed letter of this date, in which you communicate to me that you are authorized to inform President Juarez that the Emperor of Austria will reinstate Prince Maximilian [Page 562] in all his rights to succession as Archduke of Austria, as soon as Maximilian should be set at liberty, and should renounce forever all his projects in Mexico, and you besides request me to transmit this message by telegraph to President Juarez for his information, together with your recommendation that unless there should be some objection, it should be made known to Maximilian.
I have the honor to say to you in response, that this very day I transmitted the letter mentioned from you to the department of foreign relations of the Mexican republic, my communication having gone by telegraph to New Orleans, where it would reach in time to go on to-morrow by the steamer which plies weekly to Matamoros.
In the same manner I sent on the 15th instant your memorandum of that date, in which you make known to me that the Emperor of the French and the Queen of England had addressed the government of the United States requesting it to interpose its kind offices in favor of Maximilian.
I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
Hon. William H. Seward, &c., &c., &c.