Letter

DAVIS, Acting Secretary to E. B. Washburne stands for Elihu B. Washburne., September 7, 1870

Author

DAVIS, Acting Secretary

Recipient

E. B. Washburne stands for Elihu B. Washburne.

Date

September 7, 1870

Type

Letter

Language

English

[Telegram.]

Mr. Davis to Mr. E. B. Washburne.

Department of State, Washington, September 7, 1870.

Berthemy asks, under instructions from Favre, whether [the] public sentiment in America has changed since [the] change of government in France, adding, on his part, that until now [the] republican press [in this country] has expressed strong sympathy with Germany.

I reply that the Government maintains a strict neutrality, and will continue so to do; that he cannot wonder the people have little sympathy for a dynasty which countenanced giving aid to rebels during our war, and tried to establish a monarchy on our southern borders; that, in my judgment, the feeling to which he alluded was not against France or the French people, of which he is as competent to judge as I; and that the disposition of this Government is shown in the order of the President already given to recognize the new government.

DAVIS, Acting Secretary.

Notes

1. No. 30.

Topics

19th Century Diplomacy Reconstruction

Sources

FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress with the Annual Message of the Pr View original source ↗

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 Pr.