Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Second Session Thirty-eighth Congress, Part III

Mr. Frederick W. Seward to Mr. Pruyn

No. 72.]

Department of State, Washington, August 29, 1864.

Sir: Your telegram, via San Francisco, announcing that at a joint meeting of the ministers of the treaty powers held the day previous, it had been determined, in the failure of the government to do so within twenty days, to open the inland sea, has been received.

Although the proceeding thus reported was expected, the government of the United States will not disturb the concert of action between the treaty powers, but will await the result with solicitude, and with the hope that it may vindicate the wisdom of the course resolved upon.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

FREDERICK W. SEWARD, Acting Secretary.

Robert H. Pruyn, Esq., &c., &c., &c., Kanagawa.