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

Mr. Seward to Mr. Dayton

No. 604.]

Department of State, Washington, July 12, 1864

Sir: I have to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch of the 24th ultimo, No. 494, relative to the case of Mr. J. H. Mansfield, our consul at Tabasco, and to express my approval of your proceedings therein related. You will urge upon the minister for foreign affairs the importance attached by this government to prompt explanations concerning so serious a matter.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

William L. Dayton Esq., &c., &c., &c.