The national Republican. [volume] (Washington City [D.C.]) 1866-1870, 1867-03-11
Letter from Gen. Dix to Secretary
Seward, Dated Paris, the
9th Instant.
CONDITION OF THE FRENCH EMPIRE.
The Work Of Reconstruction in the
United States as Viewed by the
French Government.
Unconditional Abandonmentof
Mexico by France.
All the French Troops 10 be Withdrawn from
Mexico Before The End Of this Month.

We are officially authorized to lay before
our readers to-day the following important
letter from Gen. DIX, our Minister to France,
received by Secretary SEWARD through the
cable yesterday. The report Of the exposi-
ton Of the condition Of the French Empire,
which accompanies the letter Of Minister
DIX, is highly important and exceedingly
gratifying, especially with reference to the
French Emperor's prompt and unconditional
withdrawal Of all his troops from the soil Of
the American continent.
ToFFIcIAL.l
LEGATION or rHE Unrkp STATES,
PANS, February 10, 1857
Hon. WRs. II. SstpIrd, Secretary Of State:
SIR enclose translation Of the report Of
the annual exposition Of the condition Of the
French empire, presented by the Govern.
ment to the Senate and Corps Legislatif,
relating to the United States and Mexico.
The expression Of good feeling in respect to
the former, and the unconditional abandon.
ment Of the latter, are true index Of the
more general feeling which exists here on
both subjects. The paragraphs referred To
will be found on pages 1902 and 1903 Of the
Expose" which l will send you in the
dispatch bag on Friday. 1t is too bulky fol
the mail.
am, very respectfully, your obi servant
JOHN A. DIX.
| ITrAnAlation.l
In the United States the work Of constitu
tional reconstruction continues. France sin
cerely applauds the wonderful activity will
which that great nation is repairing tn,
calamties Of civil war. In the condition o
the relations which exist between the dill
ferent countries Of the globe, the suffering
which are produced at one point are neces
sarily felt at all others.
| We have experienced the shock Of event
which have disturbed the Union, and we ar
profting by the renewal Of its industry an,
commercial energies. No subject Of dis
agreement exists at this moment between
the two countries; on the contrary, every
thing is contributing more and more TO brin,
them nearer to each other in their policy
His Majesty has received, on q recent occa
| sion, the assurance OF sentiments of friend
ship, which were expressed to him in tn
name Of the United States, and which COZ
respond perfectly with our own feelings w
take pleasure in auguring favorably as to tn
future relations Of the two Governments, il
respect to the different questions on whic
their interests may be found to coincide.
We need not recur at this time to the ne
cessity which caused us to undertake the ex
petition to Mexico. We sought the redres
| nf o,r;ayopcau Of nyor,, do "A Il
of justice from which our people had sufIere
for many years, and animated by the genel
Gus sentiment which will always Undue
France to render her intervention useful, whel
ever she shall be led to carry her arm
We did not refuse to unite in an attempt O
regeneration, by which all interests woul
have profted. But in lending its cooper,
ton to this work, the Government OF tn
Emperor had, beforehand, assigned a lin
to its sacrifices, and the Emperor had fixe
the end Of the present year as the extrem
term Of our military occupation. The eva
uation was to have been made in three d
tachments, the first leaving in the month
November, 1866, the second in March, an
T the third in November, 1867.
These arrangements, conformable to on
previous intentions, had been made in tn
, lulness Of our liberty of action, and anythin
which had partaken Of the nature Of externa
pressure could only have placed us in tn
position, in spite Of ourselves, Of prolongin,
a state Of things which we wished to abridgt
Reasons arising out of our military stuatio
determined the Emperor to modify the frs
arrangement by substituting for a partit
evacuation at succeeding periods of time tn
simultaneous transportation home Of GU
whole corps ddrmee in the spring of Ii
present year. These measures are now in
course Of execution, and in the course
March next our troops will have left Mexc,
5 Far from desiring to free itself from Ell
q gagements which it had contracted on i
!. own account, and which it has publicly q
nounced, the Government of the Emper,
i will thus hasten their fulfilment.
G PAREPA AND BRIGNOLI.