LEGATION OF THE
NETHERLANDS,
Washington, June 9,
1862.
Hon. Mr. SEWARD,
Secretary of State of the United
States:
SIR: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your
note of the 7th of this month, in which you do me the honor to say to me, among
other things, that you have no objection that I should write to the consul of the
Netherlands at New Orleans “that it is the President's expectation that he will
resume and continue in the discharge of his official functions until there
should be further occasion for him to relinquish them.” I regret, sir, not to
be able to accept that formula without submitting it to the judgment of the
Government of the King; and I have the honor to renew to you the assurances of
my high consideration.
ROEST VAN LIMBURG.
SOURCE: The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of
the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series III, Volume
2 (Serial No. 123), p. 139
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