Mr. Wright to Mr. Seward, May 26, 1861

Mr. Wright to Mr.
Seward.

Sir:

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Enclosed is a copy of a recent communication to the minister of foreign
affairs. Prussia will take efficient steps to sustain the government of
the United States in the
protection of property and commerce, and will do all she can,
consistently with her obligations to other governments, to sustain the
vigorous action of our government in maintaining law and order.

The minister of foreign affairs, Baron Von Schleinitz, informed me on
yesterday that it was the intention of the government to issue a
proclamation touching these questions.

The government and people are, in spirit and feeling, with us. I am in
the receipt of hundreds of letters and personal calls seeking positions
in the American army, and asking for means of conveyance to our shores.
So numerous, indeed, are the applications, that I have been compelled to
place on the doors of the legation a notice to the purport that “This is
the legation of the United States, and not a recruiting office.” The
fidelity and firmness exhibited with such unanimity by our own people in
sustaining the administration in their efforts to put down the outrages
of the so-called “Confederate States,” whilst it astonishes the people
of the old world, is at the same time rapidly creating a sentiment of
confidence in our ability to maintain unimpaired the institutions of our
fathers.

Let the cost be what it may, we must vindicate the memory of our fathers
from the slanders announced by those in high places in the so-called
“Confederate States,” wherein they have proclaimed ours is only a
confederation of States, and not a national union.

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I have the honor to be, most respectfully, your obedient servant,