Letter

Washburne to Hamilton Fish, April 24, 1874

Author

Washburne

Recipient

Hamilton Fish

Date

April 24, 1874

Type

Letter

Language

English

No. 228. Mr. Washburne to Mr. Fish.

Legation of the United States, Paris, April 24, 1874. (Received May 7.)

No. 957.]

Sir: The news of the President’s veto of the currency bill reached me before noon yesterday by a private dispatch from the office of the New York Herald in London. Very soon after this intelligence was received by the bankers and the public down town through the Havas telegraph agency. It created the greatest excitement among our countrymen and in French financial circles. Everywhere there was one universal shout of approval, and the praise of the President was on all lips, without distinction of politics, “race, color, or previous condition of servitude.” All commended the firmness and patriotism and far-sighted statesmanship of the President. The veto will do an immense good over all Europe.

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I am, &c.,

E. B. WASHBURNE.

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 P 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 P.