Mr. Seward to Mr. Sanford.
Sir: I acknowledge the receipt of your private note of the 19th of August, which, as I perceive, was written under the influence of wearisome waiting for good news.
Well, before this time you have been relieved. Admiral Farragut has demonstrated the national strength and energy at Mobile. Sherman has consummated his campaign, and established the power of the Union, if not its authority, in Georgia. The political intrigues at Niagara have exploded at Chicago, to the undoubted edification of the whole people of the United States. The reenforcement of the armies is all that is desired. Peace is certainly three years and three months nearer than it was when the war began, and political movements on both sides of the line indicate a rational conviction that peace must come soon as a fruit of the sacrifices already made, and that when it shall have come it will be attended by the firm re-establishment of the Union.
I think revolution is looming up in Europe everywhere, but it will not come up this year.
I am, sir, your obedient servant,
Henry S. Sanford, Esq., &c., &c., &c., Brussels.