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

Mr. Seward to Mr. Hovey.

No. 95.]

Department of State, Washington, October 1, 1868.

Sir: Your dispatch of the 14th of September, No. 147, has been received. It contains a very full and careful account of the devastations which were produced in the republic of Ecuador, by the terrible earthquake of the 13th of August. Losing no time in giving publicity to the painful narrative, I sincerely hope that it may excite not only the sympathies but the active charity of all the civilized nations.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

Alvin P. Hovey, Esq., &c., &c., &c.