Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, For the Year 1887, Transmitted to Congress, With a Message of the President, June 26, 1888

No. 168.
Mr. Bayard to Mr. Denby.

Department of State,
Washington, May 3, 1887.

No. 193.]

Sir: I have received and read with much interest your dispatch No. 328, of March 8 last, concerning the article by the Marquis Tseng, entitled “China: the Sleep and the Awakening,” published in the Asiatic Monthly Review.

It is encouraging to see so astute an observer as the Marquis Tseng pay so high a tribute to the friendly and just disposition of the United States toward China and our firm respect for international obligations and comity.

I am, etc.,

T. F. Bayard.