William Henry Seward was an American politician who served as United States Secretary of State from 1861 to 1869 and earlier served as governor of New York and as a United States senator. A determined opponent of the spread of slavery in the years leading up to the American Civil War, he was prominent in the Republican Party in its formative years and was praised for his work on behalf of the Union as Secretary of State during the Civil War. He also negotiated the treaty for the United States to purchase the Alaska Territory.
Mr. Seward to Mr. Adams. No. 179.] Department of State, Washington, February 5, 1862. Sir: Your despatch of January 17, No. 103, fell upon the department as merely a small…
Mr. Seward to Lord Lyons. Department of State, Washington, February 6, 1862. My Lord: With reference to the permission given to the foreign representatives to correspond with their consuls in…
Mr. Seward to Mr. Mercier. Department of State, Washington, February 7, 1862. Sir: I cannot deny myself the pleasure of expressing to you the gratification with which the President has…
Mr. Seward to Mr. Adams.. No. 180.] Department of State, Washington, February 10, 1862. Sir: It seems a mockery to give you accounts of military operations, insomuch as, though my…
Mr. Seward to Mr. Mercier. Department of State, Washington, February 10, 1862. Sir: Your note of January last was duly received. It calls my attention to the embarrassments which weigh…
[Confidential.] Mr. Seward to Mr. Adams. No. 187bis.] Department of State, Washington, February 11, 1862. Sir: It is represented to us that equally in Great Britain and in France the…
Mr. Seward to Mr. Adams. No. 182.] Department of State, Washington, February 13, 1862. Sir: Westerly winds have hindered the steamers so that it is only after a period of…
Mr. Seward to Lord Lyons,. Department of State, Washington, February 13, 1862. My Lord: Referring to my note of the 4th of December last, relative to the alleged maltreatment of…
Mr. Seward to Mr. Adams. No. 476.] Department of State, Washington, February 14, 1862. Sir: The President has received the proceedings of a public meeting of the inhabitants of Cobham,…
Mr. Seward to Mr. Adams. No. 186.] Department of State, Washington, February 17, 1862. Sir: The interval between the reception of your last despatches and the departure of the mail…
Mr. Seward to Mr. Adams. No. 190.] Department of State, Washington, February 19, 1862. Sir: Your despatch of January 31, (No. 109,) has been received. I was just about instructing…
Mr. Seward to Mr. Dayton. No. 114.] Department of State, Washington, February 19, 1862. Sir: The lateness of the hour in which your despatch of January 27 (No. 109) was…
Mr. Seward to Mr. Mercier. Department of State, Washington, February 20, 1862. Sir: I have carefully considered the suggestions concerning the artificial obstacles made in Charleston harbor, presented by you…
Mr. Seward to Lord Lyons. Department of State, Washington, February 21, 1862. My Lord: I have submitted to the President the copy of an instruction from Earl Russell which you…
Mr. Seward to Mr. Perry. No. 11.] Department of State, Washington, February 22, 1862. Sir: Your confidential despatch of January 19 (No. 25) was duly received. A nation that suffers…
Mr. Seward to Mr. Dayton. No. 118.] Department of State, Washington, February 27, 1862. Sir: Your despatch of February 3 (No. 110) has been received. It suggests the expediency of…
[Confidential.] Mr. Seward to Mr. Adams. No. 197.] Department of State, Washington, February 28, 1862. Sir: The successes of the Union army in the west having brought the whole of…
Mr. Seward to Mr. Adams. No. 201.] Department of State, Washington, March 1, 1862. Sir: * * * * When, in November, we thought we had reason to apprehend new…
Mr. Seward to Mr. Adams. No. 199.] Department of State, Washington, March 6, 1862. Sir: Your despatch of February 13, No. 114, has been received. I regret that it has…
Mr. Seward to Mr. Dayton. No. 123.] Department of State, Washington, March 8, 1862. Sir: Your despatch of February 12 (No. 112) has been received. Surely all Europe ought to…
Mr. Seward to Mr. Adams. No. 203.] Department of State, Washington, March 10, 1862. Sir: I have your despatch of February 21, No. 19, which informs me, first, of the…
Mr. Seward to Mr. Adams. No. 207.] Department of State, Washington, March 11, 1862. Sir: Information derived from our consul at Liverpool confirms reports which have reached us that insurance…
Mr. Seward to Mr. Adams. No. 209.] Department of State, Washington, March 15, 1862. Sir: Your despatch of February 28, No. 124, has been received. The information which it brings…
[Circular.—No. 9.] Department of State, Washington, March 17, 1862. Sir: I am directed to inform you that the regulation of the department of the 19th of August, 1861, by which…