Letter
Anson Burlingame to Mr. Tietge, October 22, 1869
[Inclosure.]
Mr. Burlingame to Mr. Tietge.
Chinese Legation, Copenhagen, October 22, 1869.
My Dear Sir: In response to your inquiring in relation to telegraphs in China, I have to say that in 1865, as United States minister, the Chinese government, refusing to grant a right of way overland, consented that if a line should be laid in the sea it might be landed at the ports. This assent is attested by two interpreters, Dr. W. A. P. Martin and Dr. Williams, eminent sinologues.
By the favored-nation clause in the treaties with China, what is granted to one is granted to all, so that the connection you propose by the way of Possiet with Shanghai may be securely made.
Yours, &c.,
ANSON BURLINGAME.
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U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the P.