Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress with the Annual Message of the President, December 5, 1870

No. 20.

[Telegram.]

Mr. Fish to Mr. F. B. Washburne.

Department of State, Washington, July 19, 1870.

North German government asks United States to exert good offices through their legation at Paris during war, for protection of North Germans in France. President directs you to notify Duke de Gramont of this request, and say that if the French government consent thereto, the United States will extend to North Germans same care which they extended to subjects of the Emperor in Mexico, on Mr. Moustier’s request of July 19, ’67.

FISH.