Mr. Seward to Mr. Adams.
Sir: Your despatch of March 13 (No. 350) has been received. The President desires you (while adhering to previous instructions in regard to matters of like import) to communicate, in the manner which will be most grateful to the citizens of Circencester, his acknowledgments for the just and generous sentiments in regard to the United States which they have expressed in the resolutions adopted by them in the public meetings held on the 4th of March instant.
You will make a similar acknowledgment to the inhabitants of Bolton, in the county of Lancaster, for the noble protest which they have made against the violent efforts at home and insidious efforts abroad to overthrow the government and free institutions of the United States. That instrument has been deposited, and will forever remain, in the archives of the republic.
I am, sir, your obedient servant,
Charles Francis Adams, Esq., &c., &c., &c.