Mr. Seward to Mr. Dayton
Sir: Your despatch of the 29th of May (No. 310) has been received. The President is gratified by the information that our answer to the suggestions of Drouyn de l’Huys concerning the insurrection in Poland has been fully appreciated by the Emperor’s government.
The information you give me concerning the Polish insurrection, the elections in France, and the new activity of the emissaries of the insurrection in the United States, at Paris, is very interesting.
We are waiting the results of the sieges of Vicksburg and Port Hudson with intense interest. Meantime the country seems to be accommodating itself to the changed condition of things. We have a gratifying surprise in finding that our foreign commerce is increasing, notwithstanding the new and serious complications which have gathered upon it; that our revenue [Page 745] from imports is advancing towards as high a figure as it has ever before attained; that immigration is reinvigorated, and the public credit is steadily recovering from the blows which it received at the outbreak of civil war. Except in the insurrectionary States, and on their borders, you will scarcely perceive any evidence that the country is engaged in a war which fixes the attention and affects the interest of foreign nations.
I am, sir, your obedient servant,
William L. Dayton, Esq.