Mr. Seward to Mr. Dayton
Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch of the 3d of June, No. 480, which relates your proceedings and those of the imperial government concerning the unhappy difference which has arisen between Spain and Peru. Your proceedings are entirely approved, and the President, with pleasure, directs that you make known to Mr. Drouyn de l’Huys the satisfaction which this government has derived from the ready concurrence of the Emperor in the wishes we have expressed for the averting of war between two nations, both of which are friendly to the United States as well as to France—a war, moreover, which we cannot but think would be as unnecessary as it would be injurious to the general peace of nations.
I am sure that you will need no instructions to persevere in the direction indicated.
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I am, sir, your obedient servant,
William L. Dayton Esq., &c., &c., &c.