Letter
DAVIS, Acting Secretary to Elihu B. Washburne, September 6, 1870
[Telegram.]
Mr. Davis to Mr. E. B. Washburne.
Department of State, Washington, September 6, 1870.
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.
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No. 27.
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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 Pr.