Letter
WOOD, Minister Resident to William H. Seward, October 20, 1863
Mr. Wood to Mr. Seward
No. 126.]
Legation of the United States, Copenhagen, October 20, 1863.
Sir: Your despatch No. 68, in relation to General Franklin’s expedition and the army at the Cumberland, has been received. * * * We have no right to object to the publication of the truth, but the writer of falsehoods, in the present state of our affairs and European sentiment, should be dealt with in some manner that will forever teach him the ninth commandment.
I remain, &c., &c., your obedient servant,
BRADFORD R. WOOD, Minister Resident.
Hon. William H. Seward, Secretary of State.
P. S.—The Danes are massing their forces on the frontier of Schleswig.
B. R. W.
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FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the First Session Thirty-eighth
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U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the First Session Thirty-eighth .