Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress with the Annual Message of the President, December 5, 1870

No. 35.

Mr. Fish to Mr. E. B. Washburne.

No. 175.]

Department of State, Washington, September 27, 1870.

Referring to your No. 280, relating to the political occurrences at Paris, on the 4th instant, and inclosing a translation into French of your letter to Mr. Jules Favre, as it appeared in the French press, it is only necessary for me to state that the action thus reported has already received the approval of this Department and of the people of the United States.

HAMILTON FISH.