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. 566.

Department of State, Washington, April 24, 1863.

Sir: Your despatch of April 9 (No. 369) has been submitted to the President, together with the copy of a further correspondence which has been held between yourself and Earl Russell concerning the intercepted pretended despatches of the agents of the insurgents. The ability with which you have defended the rights of the United States in this correspondence is appreciated, and the views you have submitted to his lordship are approved.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

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