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

Mr. Seward to Mr. Wood.

No. 83.]

Department of State, Washington, March 26, 1864.

Sir:Your despatch of March 7, No. 149, has been received. Your proceedings in regard to the Bremen steamers are approved. It is represented that the one of those vessels which arrived last at New York now wears the Russian flag.

The answer you gave to Mr. Mourad’s inquiry concerning the neutrality of the United States is approved. This government will practice towards other nations the same justice that it claims, however unsuccessfully in any case for the present, at their hands.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

Bradford R. Wood, Esq., &c., &c., &c., Copenhagen.