Mr. Seward to Mr. Romero
Sir: I have had the honor to receive your note of the 20th of April last, transmitting, by instruction of your government, a correspondence which passed in December, 1864, between General Slaughter, a rebel officer in Texas, and General Mejia, commanding the forces of the French at Matamoras, in Mexico, relative to the capture of the Mexican steamer Orizaba, seized by the insurgents of the United States, and to the apparent good understanding then existing between said generals touching the relations of the two governments they claimed to represent.
You are also pleased to communicate an extract from the New York Tribune of the 13th of April, 1865, giving important details of the events then transpiring in the Mexican republic.
Thanking you for the information thus communicated, I pray you, sir, to accept the assurances of my highest consideration.
Señor Matias Romero, &c., &c., &c., Washington, D.C.