Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the First Session Thirty-eighth Congress, Part I

Mr. Seward to Mr. Adams.

No. 663.]

Department of State, Washington, July 24, 1863.

Sir: I have received and have communicated to the Secretary of the Navy your despatch of the 10th of July, No. 449. You may rely, I think, upon everything being done that can be done to resist the formidable naval attack which is being prepared for us on the British shores. It may be hoped, in view of some changes which have recently occurred in our military situation, that the British government will not be indifferent to transactions occurring there which tend so strongly towards alienation and war.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

Charles Francis Adams, Esq., &c., &c., &c.