Letter

DAVIS, Acting Secretary to Elihu B. Washburne, September 6, 1870

[Telegram.]

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

If provisional government has actual control and possession of power, and is acknowledged by French people, so as to be, in point of fact, de facto government, of which you will be able to decide by the time this reaches you, you will not hesitate to recognize it.

DAVIS, Acting Secretary.
Notes
1. No. 27.
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.