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

Mr. Seward to Mr. Sanford.

No. 140.]

Department of State, Washington, August 8, 1864.

Sir: I submitted to the Secretary of the Navy your despatch No. 200, marked confidential, in which you suggest the feasibility of enlisting foreigners in Belgium for our naval service. In returning the despatch to this department he states that “the proposed measure is both inexpedient and unnecessary, as we are now receiving recruits in abundance.”

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

Henry S. Sanford, Esq., &c., &c., &c., Brussels.