RELATING TO THE FOREIGN RELATIO OF THE UNITED STATES TRANSMITTED TO CONGRESS WITH THE ANNUAL MI DECEMBER 5, 1870, PRECEDED BY A SYNOPTICAL LIST OF PAPERS AND FOLLOWED BY AN AL MESSAGE OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STA To the Senate and House of Representatives: A year of peace and general prosperity to this nation has pas the last assembling of Congress. We have, through a kind Pro been blessed with abundant crops, and have been spared from tions and war with foreign nations. In our midst comparative has been restored. It is to be regretted, however, that a free of the elective franchise has, by violence and intimidation, bee to citizens in exceptional cases in several of the States lately lion, and the verdict of the people has thereby been revers States of Virginia, Mississippi, and Texas have been restored sentation in our national councils. Georgia, the only State now representation, may confidently be expected to take her place t at the beginning of the new year; and then, let us hope, will pleted the work of reconstruction. With an acquiescence on of the whole people in the national obligation to pay the pub created as the price of our Union; the pensions to our disabled and sailors, and their widows and orphans; and in the chang Constitution which have been made necessary by a great rebelli is no reason why we should not advance in material prosperity piness, as no other nation ever did, after so protracted and dey a war. Soon after the existing war broke out in Europe the protecti United States minister in Paris was invoked in favor of North domiciled in French territory. Instructions were issued to g protection. This has been followed by an extension of Amer tection to citizens of Saxony, Hesse and Saxe-Coburg, Gotha, C Portugal, Uruguay, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Chili, P and Venezuela, in Paris. The charge was an onerous one, 1 constant and severe labor, as well as the exercise of patience, p and good judgment. It has been performed to the entire satisf this Government, and, as I am officially informed, equally so to isfaction of the government of North Germany. As soon as I learned that a republic had been proclaimed: and that the people of France had acquiesced in the change, th ter of the United States was directed by telegraph to recogniz |