Only Seward and myself were with the President at
Cabinet-meeting. Seward is highly pleased with the course taken in regard to
the captured letters. Wanted me to send him all of Trowbridge's which had not
been published. I did so. He gave me a long confidential conversation about
Mexican affairs which had been communicated by Mr. Corwin,1 our
Minister, under the strongest injunctions of secrecy. Before he got through,
however, Seward let out that he had read the dispatch to Lord Lyons, and I
think said he let Lord L. take it; assumed that Earl Russell, on learning the
facts, would not feel more amiably disposed towards the French.
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1 Thomas Corwin.
SOURCE: Gideon Welles, Diary of Gideon Welles,
Secretary of the Navy Under Lincoln and Johnson, Vol. 1: 1861 – March 30,
1864, p. 493
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