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. 495.]

Department of State, Washington, March 2, 1863.

Sir: The resolutions of a meeting of the inhabitants of South London, held in Southwark on the 3d day of February, 1863, have been submitted to the President of the United States.

You will avail yourself of a proper occasion to make known to Mr. J. Serrell, who presided at the meeting, the President’s grateful acknowledgments for the good wishes expressed for the welfare and happiness of our country by that respectable assembly, and assure him, in return, of the best wishes of this government for the preservation of a perpetual and cordial friendship between two nations whose common responsibility for the cause of civilization requires that they shall remain in that relation.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

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