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

[Extract.]

Mr. Clay to Mr. Seward

No. 107.]

Legation of the United States, St. Petersburg, Russia, March 12, 1866.

Sir: I am in receipt of your despatch No. 188. I am gratified to hear that you were interested in my views given in regard to home politics.

We have news of the President’s veto of the Freedmen’s Bureau bill, and the public excitement, and we have also the veto message. In such an emergency I venture to say that I approve the message most heartily, and I stand by the President.

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Your obedient servant,

C. M. CLAY.

Hon. William H. Seward, Secretary of State, Washington, D. C.