Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Second Session of the Fortieth Congress

[Telegram.]

Mr. Seward to Mr. Campbell

Department of State, Washington, January 8, 1867.

Lewis D. Campbell, Esq., &c., &c., &c., New Orleans:

We wish you to remain at New Orleans while events ripen in Mexico. It now seems that it may be so long as March. But we cannot anticipate events. It may be much shorter.

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.