The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1867-03-12
relations Of France and the United
sta,cs-Tricndiy Expressions Of the
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LEGATION OF THE UNITED STATES, }
Pans, February 10, 1867.

Emperor.
LEGATION OF THE UNITED STATES,
PARIS, February 10, 1867.
Inn. William II. Se,oard, Secretaryof State:
sir.-I enclose translation of the re-
,ort Of the annual exposition OF the condi-
ION Of the French Empire, presented by
me Government to the Senate and Corps
Icrislatif, relating to the United States
and Mexico. The expression of good feel
ing in respect to the former, and the un-
conditional abandonment of the latter, are
the true index Of the more general feeling
which exists here on both subjects. The
paragraphs referred to will be found on
naccs 80? and 303 Of the expose" which
/ will send you in the dispatch bag on
Friday. II is too bulky for the mail.
am, very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
JOHN A. DIX.
TRANSLATION.
In the United States the work Of consti-
tGIional reconstruction continues. France
sincerely applauds the wonderful activity
With which that great nation is repairing
the CalamiticS of civil war. In the condi-
lion of the relations which exist between
the different countries of the globe, the
,uacringS which are produced at one point
SIC necessarily felt at all others. We have
fXncrience6 the shock of events which
have disturbed the Union, and we are pro-
sting by the renewal of its industry and
commercial energies. No subject of disa-
g-cemeut exists at this moment between
The two countries on the contrary, every
thing is contributing more and more to
bring them nearer TO each other in their
policy. His Majesty has received, on a re-
cent occasion, the assurance Of sentiments
of friendship which were expressed to him
in the name of the United States, and
which correspond perfectly with our own
feelings. We take pleasure in auguring
favorably as to the future relations of the
two Governments in respect to the differ
cnt questions on which their interests may
be found To coincide.
We need not rccur at this time to the
necessity which caused us to undertake
the expedition to Mexico. We sought the
redress of grievances of every description
and dcnialS of Justice, from which our peo-
ple had suffered for many years, >and ami
mated by the generous sentiment which
will always induce France TO render her
Intervention useful wherever she shall be
led to carry her arms. We did not re-
fuse To unite in an attempt at regeneration
bv which all interests would have protited.
But. in lending its cooperation to this work,
the Government Of the Emperor had be-
forehand assigned limit to its sacrifices,
and the Emperor had fixed the end of the
present year as the extreme term of our
military occupation. The evacuation was
70 have been made in three detachments,
the first leaving in the month of November,
1866: the second in March, and the third
in November, 1867. These arrangements,
CoriOrmable to our previous intentions, had
been made in the fullness Of our liberty of
action, and anything which had partaken
Of the nature of external pressure could
only have placed us in the position, in
spite of ourselves, of prolonging state of
.hiuEs which We wished to abridge. Rea-
cons arising out of our military situation
determined the Emperor 10 modify the first
arrangement by substituting for partial
evacuation, at succeeding periods of time,
the simultaneous transportation home of
our whole corps Garmfe in the spring of the
present year. These measures are now IN
The course of execution, and in the course
of March next our troops will have left
Mexico.
Far from desiring to free itself from en-
gagemeuts which ii had contracted on its
own account, and which it has publicly an
nounced, the Government of the Emperor
will thus hasten their fultlment.