To the Senate and House of Representatives1Jump to section
To the Senate and House of Representatives:
I transmit to Congress a copy of an instruction from Prince Gortchacow to Mr. de Stoeckl, the minister of his Imperial Majesty the Emperor of Russia, accredited to this government, and of a note of the Secretary of State to the latter, relative to the adjustment of the question between the United States and Great Britain, growing out of the removal of certain of our citizens from the British mail steamer Trent, by order of the commander of the United States war steamer San Jacinto.
Washington, February 25, 1862. ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
Annotation
[1] Thirty---seventh Congress, Second Session, Senate Executive Document No.22. The enclosed communication from Russia, January 9, 1862, expressed ``the highest satisfaction that his Imperial Majesty has found his foresight confirmed by the determination which the federal government has. . . taken.'' Seward's reply of February 18, observed that ``The relations of mutual confidence and friendship between a republican power in the west and a great and enterprising and beneficent monarchy in the east will afford new and important guarantees of peace, order, and freedom to the nations. . . .''