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. 542.]

Department of State, Washington, April 8, 1863.

Sir: I transmit a copy of a memorial addressed to the President of the United States by the president and secretary of the Panama Railroad Company, complaining of the destruction of the bark Golden Rule, belonging to that company, by the steamer Alabama, built and armed, and perhaps manned, in England.

You will present the case to Earl Russell, with a note setting forth that this government regards that of her Britannic Majesty accountable in this as in other similar cases.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

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